"Look at how much the U.S. thought it would cost originally to get to the Moon, $10-20 billion."
Now from the article
"There is no viable way to adapt these numbers to current day space exploration proposals, because the cost estimates were based upon ways of doing things that NASA no longer uses."
Well, either way, bolts are probably not a good idea.... But what the hell do I know about putting out fires, I'll just leave that up to the people who design space crafts.
God forbid we fasten fire extinguishers with, oh I don't know, binder clips? I know fire extinguishers are heavy, but in orbit I think a binder clip (or even a paper clip--granted bent properly) may be sufficient to hold one in place when you absolutely need it in place and remove it from it's place when you absolutely need it removed from it's place.
A student should learn C before they learn java. I have always firmly believed this. Probably also C++. They will then be able to fully appreciate what Java is providing them.
Yeah, the color thing is a problem as well. I'm completely color blind, Ctrl A is my friend a lot fo times for web pages.
What bothers me so much is that all of these hacks don't scale, literally. For example, when you up the font size in any given GUI environment, it typically only applies to the content. The meta stuff, like menu bars, remain small. Ironically even if you do it on a "system wide" basis. I've seen in gnome the content of the menus, (stuff you pull down) will scale to larger text, but the menu from which you "pulled down" is still using small fonts.
Even more irritating, and the reason I bothered with gnopernicus in the first place, was that applets in a web page don't get resized. (I play this online game which uses an applet and I'm completely hosed on anything other than windows, which doesn't let me scale *everything* up to 800 x 600).
I'm legally blind myself and generally do not need to use any magnifier.
I usually just need to be a lot closer to the screen than most other users.
I use Linux a lot, and enjoy the Ctrl+ feature of Mozilla.
On Windows, I simply up the screen size by changing from 1024 768 to 800 600. (I wished linux could do this.)
I'm curious if you have any experience with gnopernicus which I tried to compile using an older Red Hat distro. I've since upgraded to Fedora but have yet to play with gnopernicus after all of the problems I originally encountered. (Which were likely all my fault for not using appropriate lib versions...)
"It that ends up the case, I'm sure we will all be sitting around telling people how we remember the good old days when you could actually hear yourself think in a public place."
So can I deduct from my taxes time I could bill for as a contractor or some such, which I spend contributing to open source? (Does everyone do this and I'm the last to know???)
"The hardware version of the "we're doing you Linux users a favor" factor involves selling a "Linux PC" that's more expensive than most of the company's Windows computers "
We will begin to complain again about outsourcing, since we can no longer compete. Rather than properly analyzing the problem and creating solutions which help everyone.
What exactly does "reduce the brain's vulnerability toxic insults." mean? Perhaps there is some biological terminology I am not familiar with... Also, how can they claim this will help effects of long term memory loss?
There should be a poll, which big software/tech/IT company has the largest reputation for being unethical.
While I'm pretty sure I know who would finish first given sentiments around here, I'm curious about the others rankings.
Yeah, they need to keep it real after that whole online terrorist "stock market" trading plan of theirs.
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That's funny, I actually included a link to a page describing Mr. Burns' sun blocking device, suggesting he might be the one to invent the pop up blocker. But that part got taken out.
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If he gets re-elected, *I'm* going to Mars....
"Look at how much the U.S. thought it would cost originally to get to the Moon, $10-20 billion."
Now from the article
"There is no viable way to adapt these numbers to current day space exploration proposals, because the cost estimates were based upon ways of doing things that NASA no longer uses."
You have to recompile some kernel code I think, but it can be done....
But that's all the songs or movies anyone would ever need...
But when will the it's remote control have a remote control? I'm not getting off the couch for that.
Well, either way, bolts are probably not a good idea.... But what the hell do I know about putting out fires, I'll just leave that up to the people who design space crafts.
God forbid we fasten fire extinguishers with, oh I don't know, binder clips? I know fire extinguishers are heavy, but in orbit I think a binder clip (or even a paper clip--granted bent properly) may be sufficient to hold one in place when you absolutely need it in place and remove it from it's place when you absolutely need it removed from it's place.
"Russian craft will be fine as long as you have a roll of duct tape or a bit of wood glue. "
Or a wrench in the event of fire?
A student should learn C before they learn java. I have always firmly believed this. Probably also C++. They will then be able to fully appreciate what Java is providing them.
Yeah XP runs great on my laptop. Problem is, I never use it.
There's also like 20 different places to adjust the size it seems. Sometimes things get too large and can't be dynamically adjusted.
Yeah, the color thing is a problem as well. I'm completely color blind, Ctrl A is my friend a lot fo times for web pages.
What bothers me so much is that all of these hacks don't scale, literally. For example, when you up the font size in any given GUI environment, it typically only applies to the content. The meta stuff, like menu bars, remain small. Ironically even if you do it on a "system wide" basis. I've seen in gnome the content of the menus, (stuff you pull down) will scale to larger text, but the menu from which you "pulled down" is still using small fonts.
Even more irritating, and the reason I bothered with gnopernicus in the first place, was that applets in a web page don't get resized. (I play this online game which uses an applet and I'm completely hosed on anything other than windows, which doesn't let me scale *everything* up to 800 x 600).
I'm legally blind myself and generally do not need to use any magnifier.
I usually just need to be a lot closer to the screen than most other users.
I use Linux a lot, and enjoy the Ctrl+ feature of Mozilla.
On Windows, I simply up the screen size by changing from 1024 768 to 800 600. (I wished linux could do this.)
I'm curious if you have any experience with gnopernicus which I tried to compile using an older Red Hat distro. I've since upgraded to Fedora but have yet to play with gnopernicus after all of the problems I originally encountered. (Which were likely all my fault for not using appropriate lib versions...)
NASA could have one. Build a robot to fix a broken telescope laying around the southern California desert.
Soon you'll have some sort of "IPod" or something....
Maybe? I dunno...
Just a guess.
"It that ends up the case, I'm sure we will all be sitting around telling people how we remember the good old days when you could actually hear yourself think in a public place."
Can you hear yourself think now? good
Does it still work then?
Their hungarian warts?
Just curious, not trying to be an ass:
So can I deduct from my taxes time I could bill for as a contractor or some such, which I spend contributing to open source? (Does everyone do this and I'm the last to know???)
"The hardware version of the "we're doing you Linux users a favor" factor involves selling a "Linux PC" that's more expensive than most of the company's Windows computers "
I don't get it....
We will begin to complain again about outsourcing, since we can no longer compete. Rather than properly analyzing the problem and creating solutions which help everyone.
What exactly does "reduce the brain's vulnerability toxic insults." mean? Perhaps there is some biological terminology I am not familiar with... Also, how can they claim this will help effects of long term memory loss?
There should be a poll, which big software/tech/IT company has the largest reputation for being unethical.
While I'm pretty sure I know who would finish first given sentiments around here, I'm curious about the others rankings.
Yeah, they need to keep it real after that whole online terrorist "stock market" trading plan of theirs.
That's funny, I actually included a link to a page describing Mr. Burns' sun blocking device, suggesting he might be the one to invent the pop up blocker. But that part got taken out.