If it was more like
From: Usama Bin Laden
then I bet Bush would believe it. Saddam, well, Bush would just pick up the red phone and ask, "he still there?":)
A few things come to mind regarding the size of the magnetic field:
A magnet the size of Earth
Part of a nutron star
Some sort of a plasma system (see plasma drive on JPL site somewhere)
All of these might just be slightly heavy pieces of equipment.
Note that most of the radiation damage that the rover can suffer was during the flight to Mars. For example, a solar flare poited in the right direction might have fried it during flight - it might have a difficulty doing so when it is on Mars
The bottom line is that the major problem is NOT the radiation but software. I wander when NASA will start using Linux - the current system is worse than Windows 3.1!
As one of the maintainers for Debian, Kaffe has been broken for months now. The latest release of Kaffe that actually compiled on all archs is in stable.
We only need to fix Kaffe so that it can be compiled (maybe not using the supplied kjc but something like jikes is the answer here).
Anyway, the Kaffe stuff is available here:
Easy fix - devalue the US dolar so it is 1/6 its current value. Then we'll outsource stuff from India:) With the current US hyper-deficit, this will come in a few months/years.
Wait a minute, I'm in Canada.......... doh!
- gnuman99
PS. Greenspan is a moron - he said that the exodus of jobs is "unavoidable" and that it is a "necessity".
Now that I have your attention (or not), free trade *is* a good thing. Outsourcing is also a good thing. The problem is that it only goes ONE way - there is no competition since one side is dumping jobs. I have no problem if IBM wants to hire people in India - just pay them the *SAME* ammount as if you would pay them here. This is the only way that people can compete on even ground. This is also the only way that a standard of living in India (or elsewhere) will ever go up.
If the trend continues, people in the US will loose all their jobs to other countries. Then people in the states will not have the money to buy stuff from other coutries and the people that got the jobs in other countries (India, etc) will not be able to buy the stuff they supposedly wrote/made. The result is a global economic meltdown (hyper deflation).
It is time to hammer out global trade policies. These should include at *least* these two points:
1. If company A wants to import services/goods from country X to Y, company A must pay its employees the acceptable salary from country X *OR* country Y, WHICHEVER IS GREATER
2. If company A wants to import services/goods from country X to Y, company A must follow BOTH, the environmental policies of country X and the environmental policies of country Y, at all of the facilities that the company owns.
I have no idea why it is sooo difficult for them to get the world trade agreement - only 2 points!!
But fuck that, as long as the CEO can inflate their "porfolio"
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Maybe if Sun actually released the source to Java under a free license, maybe, just maybe, people might improve it and use it.
I guess DOS was perfect too until someone divided by zero.
If it was more like From: Usama Bin Laden then I bet Bush would believe it. Saddam, well, Bush would just pick up the red phone and ask, "he still there?" :)
No excuse - this "feature" should be turned OFF by default. Heck, it should not exist in the first place.
All of these might just be slightly heavy pieces of equipment.
Note that most of the radiation damage that the rover can suffer was during the flight to Mars. For example, a solar flare poited in the right direction might have fried it during flight - it might have a difficulty doing so when it is on Mars
The bottom line is that the major problem is NOT the radiation but software. I wander when NASA will start using Linux - the current system is worse than Windows 3.1!
We only need to fix Kaffe so that it can be compiled (maybe not using the supplied kjc but something like jikes is the answer here). Anyway, the Kaffe stuff is available here:
QA of Kaffe
Build logs
BSD is only used by MS to "improve" (read: copy and paste) their OS. Of course they get that wrong too.
Wait a minute, I'm in Canada.......... doh!
- gnuman99
PS. Greenspan is a moron - he said that the exodus of jobs is "unavoidable" and that it is a "necessity".
Now that I have your attention (or not), free trade *is* a good thing. Outsourcing is also a good thing. The problem is that it only goes ONE way - there is no competition since one side is dumping jobs. I have no problem if IBM wants to hire people in India - just pay them the *SAME* ammount as if you would pay them here. This is the only way that people can compete on even ground. This is also the only way that a standard of living in India (or elsewhere) will ever go up.
If the trend continues, people in the US will loose all their jobs to other countries. Then people in the states will not have the money to buy stuff from other coutries and the people that got the jobs in other countries (India, etc) will not be able to buy the stuff they supposedly wrote/made. The result is a global economic meltdown (hyper deflation).
It is time to hammer out global trade policies. These should include at *least* these two points:
1. If company A wants to import services/goods from country X to Y, company A must pay its employees the acceptable salary from country X *OR* country Y, WHICHEVER IS GREATER
2. If company A wants to import services/goods from country X to Y, company A must follow BOTH, the environmental policies of country X and the environmental policies of country Y, at all of the facilities that the company owns.
I have no idea why it is sooo difficult for them to get the world trade agreement - only 2 points!!
But fuck that, as long as the CEO can inflate their "porfolio"