NASA Watch is reporting that NASA has cancelled Servicing Mission 4 for the Hubble Space Telescope. The reason given is not for budgets, but for safety."
I do not understand this. We've got a wonderful tool up there a generating ton of data. Just because it's not getting great press anymore... and just because it's not the sexy thing right now, why forget about it?
They can easily (well, easy for me to say) work on it during their visits to the space station.
We'll spend a trillion to get men to Mars... but we can't take the time and energy to keep the space telescope up and running?
I like the push to Mars... but why abandon a tool that is gathering so much wonderful data?
"These are real people--retired military, paramilitary or paid contractors. When necessary, the exercises will be password protected," Grosse continued, indicating its seriousness.
I know where we can find the real trouble makers... here. You know that a bunch of the slashdot trolls would play excellent suicide bombers! They (errr....we?) destroy personal slashdpt accounts all the time to stir up fun and mayham.
Honestly, the internet is a great place to find interesting and creative people to challenge our military.
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software Inc. is the technology leader for real-time operating systems and software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY(R) RTOS, compilers, MULTI(R) and AdaMULTI Integrated Development Environments and Green Hills Probe(TM), offer a complete development solution that addresses both deeply embedded and maximum reliability applications.
I don't know... but this looks like a great way for legos to get a whole lot of free press.
1. Hint that they are killing Mindstorm 2. Tons of people talk about how great Mindstorm is 3. Public gets informed about their great product. 4. Squash the rumors and say "We will continue to sell the Mindstorm products that you love" 5. You know the rest...
Nice working of the system to get some free, targetted advertising. Bravo!
Sony, Nitendo, Microsoft -- that's it. That's all the market can handle...
Sorry boys, there is no more room for you.
They will lose like all the consoles that have come and gone before. Xbox would have lost too... if they didn't have Microsoft's endless wealth behind them.
Keep it vapor guys... It'll be cheaper that way for you.
Errr... can somebody point me to a site that uses this technology? A google search for "we use Peppercoin" gives me nada.
Honestly, searching google finds me no sites using this technology. I like to see this in action before I start trying it out on my own site.
We originally ran tech-recipes.com to help our family and friends keep up with the unix/solaris/etc hints that we gave them... however, we've been looking for a way to turn this into a profit-making business.
Micropayments would seem nice! A couple of cents per recipe viewed and we would be doing well.
...so much so that going without the apparatus often leaves him feeling nauseous, unsteady, naked
This is the way I feel too sometimes... if I forget to leave my pager, cell phone, lap-top, sidekick, and laptop behind...
Honestly though, this guy is addicted to information. If you tried to take google away from me, I would feel the same way. Information is addicted... there's no way around it.
However, our family and friends think that since I am a geek that my kid must want the loudest, most computerized thing out there. Of course, this is not true.
What's funny is that she still bangs on the piano and draw on her chalk board more than playing with any of those electronic toys.
I just hope she develops a longer attention span than I did!
Since it reported its first loss of $47.8 million in 1998, Lego has been hit hard by increasing competition from the makers of electronic toys.
It is GBA fault. It is the fault of the game consoles, the computers, and the leap-pad-ish products.
Plastic legos and tinker-toys and cabin logs rocked when I was a child. This year Christmas for my two year old required more batteries than gifts for the rest of my family.
Pure electronic gifts are winning...
All of our kids are going to grow to be bigger geeks than we are.:)
Alas, the capitalistic mess (about which our founding fathers worried) rears its ugly head.
Although it may trigger "in soviet russia" jokes, it's true.
How do we fix this?
We all know not to buy that brand again. We must become more educated and not buy from the original producer of the product. A large part of this junk is the same crap rebadged and remarketed with different names.
Some people will say that you can fix this just by taking "the Apple" approach--buying the most expensive in hoping you are getting the best. Personally, I am just too poor for this option... and I have to hope that there is a happy in-between.
Sorry... I gotta call bullsh!t on this one. Electron microscopy can not give you "real-time" images. The cells have to be fixed thus dead thus not real time.
Slashdot Mirror
NASA Watch is reporting that NASA has cancelled Servicing Mission 4 for the Hubble Space Telescope. The reason given is not for budgets, but for safety."
Associated Links:
thestar.com
news.scotsman.com
I do not understand this. We've got a wonderful tool up there a generating ton of data. Just because it's not getting great press anymore... and just because it's not the sexy thing right now, why forget about it?
They can easily (well, easy for me to say) work on it during their visits to the space station.
We'll spend a trillion to get men to Mars... but we can't take the time and energy to keep the space telescope up and running?
I like the push to Mars... but why abandon a tool that is gathering so much wonderful data?
AC
"These are real people--retired military, paramilitary or paid contractors. When necessary, the exercises will be password protected," Grosse continued, indicating its seriousness.
I know where we can find the real trouble makers... here. You know that a bunch of the slashdot trolls would play excellent suicide bombers! They (errr....we?) destroy personal slashdpt accounts all the time to stir up fun and mayham.
Honestly, the internet is a great place to find interesting and creative people to challenge our military.
Like we come here for the articles?!?!
We all come here to socialize and share ideas.
Yes, even the trolls.
This is social.
Sure I go out with friends and family several times per week... but this is a form of socialization as well.
We all need a little geek "fix" every once in a while.
No shock here.
AC
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software Inc. is the technology leader for real-time operating systems and software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY(R) RTOS, compilers, MULTI(R) and AdaMULTI Integrated Development Environments and Green Hills Probe(TM), offer a complete development solution that addresses both deeply embedded and maximum reliability applications.
http://www.ghs.com/news/230325c.html
Doesn't this guy sale his own embedded options?
Wouldn't he push his own product over linux?
What am I missing?
AC
I don't know... but this looks like a great way for legos to get a whole lot of free press.
1. Hint that they are killing Mindstorm
2. Tons of people talk about how great Mindstorm is
3. Public gets informed about their great product.
4. Squash the rumors and say "We will continue to sell the Mindstorm products that you love"
5. You know the rest...
Nice working of the system to get some free, targetted advertising. Bravo!
AC
Sony, Nitendo, Microsoft -- that's it. That's all the market can handle...
Sorry boys, there is no more room for you.
They will lose like all the consoles that have come and gone before. Xbox would have lost too... if they didn't have Microsoft's endless wealth behind them.
Keep it vapor guys... It'll be cheaper that way for you.
AC
Errr... can somebody point me to a site that uses this technology? A google search for "we use Peppercoin" gives me nada.
Honestly, searching google finds me no sites using this technology. I like to see this in action before I start trying it out on my own site.
We originally ran tech-recipes.com to help our family and friends keep up with the unix/solaris/etc hints that we gave them... however, we've been looking for a way to turn this into a profit-making business.
Micropayments would seem nice! A couple of cents per recipe viewed and we would be doing well.
Anybody actually using this technology?
AC
Enjoy their linux commerical here.
Yep!
AC
...so much so that going without the apparatus often leaves him feeling nauseous, unsteady, naked
This is the way I feel too sometimes... if I forget to leave my pager, cell phone, lap-top, sidekick, and laptop behind...
Honestly though, this guy is addicted to information. If you tried to take google away from me, I would feel the same way. Information is addicted... there's no way around it.
AC
SCO must stay in the positive public light to keep their stock up. So this is no shock.
When SCO dips, they hit a new hot target--this time it is google. What a shock they hit google right as they announce that they will IPO.
SCO should just die.
AC
Alas, you may be right.
We bought flashcards and a bigwheel.
However, our family and friends think that since I am a geek that my kid must want the loudest, most computerized thing out there. Of course, this is not true.
What's funny is that she still bangs on the piano and draw on her chalk board more than playing with any of those electronic toys.
I just hope she develops a longer attention span than I did!
AC
Speaking of price, I just bought a bunch of the music builder series to give as gifts.
Here's the fatwallet thread describing the deal.
$9 instead of $49 is pretty sweet!
AC
It is not SCO's fault.
:)
Since it reported its first loss of $47.8 million in 1998, Lego has been hit hard by increasing competition from the makers of electronic toys.
It is GBA fault. It is the fault of the game consoles, the computers, and the leap-pad-ish products.
Plastic legos and tinker-toys and cabin logs rocked when I was a child. This year Christmas for my two year old required more batteries than gifts for the rest of my family.
Pure electronic gifts are winning...
All of our kids are going to grow to be bigger geeks than we are.
AC
Next time we are at the racing track will we see m.p.h real-time as the race progresses?
AC
Oh, this is not good.
:)
GPS + Cars = mucho speeding tickets for AC
Now we see how ashcroft is going to fund his anti-terrorist activities.
AC
Since tons of people obviously have or are currently using apex DVD players...
you can read all the junk and hacks for these players here in the Nerd Out Forums.
I actually was following the forums all excited about eventually hacking mine until it would open my beer bottles as well.
Downloading and hacking firmware--you actually feel like you are creating something. Of course, then mine spontaneously up and died.
If I had just spent those hours at work instead of pouring through those forums, I could have easily paid for all the features I wanted.
However, if I were really that rational, I wouldn't be a geek... and my wife would be correct. Scary...
AC
Since I can't find it on TV anywhere, here's the video streams I've been watching.
NASA TV 1
NASA TV 2 - (looks better quality to me)
AC
Alas, the capitalistic mess (about which our founding fathers worried) rears its ugly head.
Although it may trigger "in soviet russia" jokes, it's true.
How do we fix this?
We all know not to buy that brand again.
We must become more educated and not buy from the original producer of the product. A large part of this junk is the same crap rebadged and remarketed with different names.
Some people will say that you can fix this just by taking "the Apple" approach--buying the most expensive in hoping you are getting the best. Personally, I am just too poor for this option... and I have to hope that there is a happy in-between.
AC
Capacitors... capacitors...
I am sure.
Dammit Jim, I am a biologist not a electrician.
I stand corrected.
AC
I was a huge fan of apex DVDs previously. They were inexpensive and had ton of functions.
However, it died. Dead as a doornail.
Opening it up, I found several leaking transistors...
My "n of 1" is that I agree. Cheap Apex DVDs suck.
AC
I have seen the real hidden costs of bargin equipment!
:)
As many great deals that I have found in fatwallet forums, I'll be damned that it seems I get more and more broke everytime I visit there...
Of course, whenever my bookoo of rebate money rolls in, I'll be doing much better.
Damn you fatwallet!
AC
Sorry... I gotta call bullsh!t on this one. Electron microscopy can not give you "real-time" images. The cells have to be fixed thus dead thus not real time.
Shows a mounted sample on the stage
Likewise, I do not believe that Bausch & Lomb makes EM equipment either.
Now, I may be wrong... if so, no offense taken, but this just seems incorrect to me.
Ac
What would somebody do with a personal scanning electron microscope?
Scrap their mouth looking for viral inclusion?
Trace out the path on their microchips?
Make some kick-ass art?
Maybe plans like this would allow a poor researcher get started in his/her work before the grant money started rolling in...
I'm an ultra science geek... but I can't figure out anything I would want to do with this.
AC
The main thing the ban would do is to stop Rockstar from being able to easily release further games in the series.
On a bigger picture, the thing that worries me is that soon the government may be telling me which games I as an adult can purchase.
Ac
For reference, we should remember that some of these idiots think GTA is worse than child molestation.
OT:
Tasteless T-shirt of the week:
Front-- Michael Jackson did not have sex with those kids.
Back-- He made love to them.
(Sorry... mods please be nice.)
Ac