Soluble Protein crystallisation experiment
One of the processes that helps scientist learn about diseases like HIV, is called Soluble Protein Crystallisation (SPC). This process gives scientists a way to understand the immune system and learn how to make it more effective.
Embryo and Stem Cell Development (ESCD) Project
Understanding stem cells holds the key to healing serious injuries and disease. This is because where the cells in one part of the body have been damaged, stem cells may one day be used to repair the injury.
Studying the heart, muscles and energy in space
Space places a very different set of strains on the human body to those we encounter on earth. Much of the science conducted in orbit has been aimed at understanding how we function when under conditions of "micro-gravity".
UCT monitors Shuttleworth
Not just anybody is suitably qualified to work out a training programme for astronauts living between heaven and Earth.
Forgive me, but a lot of those sound more worthwhile than "materials" research and product testing...
In some ways, technology has improved our society. Some technology, such as computers and Free Software, allow us to help our neighbours and share with eachother. In other ways, Technology has hindered society. One of these ways is through transportation technology.
In the modern world, we are seperated from our neighbours by "motor car bubbles". Previously, horses were used for the majority of transportation, and trains (wherein one could still be closer to one's neighbour) were used for long-distance transportation.
Today, the use of trains and other public transport has declined, especially in countries like the United States and Canada, and private car use has soared. This is one area where technology has hindered, not helped, society. Yes, cars may be faster, but the social implications are staggering.
With Free Software, things like this would not happen. With more hackers on the internet checking the source code of programs for bugs, and the core development teams using appropriate MD5 hashes when distributing binaries and source code tarballs, Spyware would become extinct. The problem here is the proprietry software mindset. It is fundamentally anti-social and against the principles of sharing and helping your neighbour. Wider adoption of Free Software would go a long way to solving this problem.
Please don't use that terminology. What you are referring to as "Linux" is actually a variant of the GNU system with the Linux kernel in it. When Linus and the rest of the Linux kernel developers started looking around for OS components in the early 90s, it was no coincidence that most of the components they needed were there - the GNU tools.
The GNU project predates Linux by 7 years, the project was founded in 1984, and most of the code comprising a GNU/Linux system is from the GNU project. So people are mistaken if they refer to the GNU system as "Linux".
Developers know the difference, they know that the Linux kernel is just that, a kernel, but the whole system should be called the "GNU/Linux system", but because "Linux" has become so popular with the media and with the end-user as a name, developers have stopped trying to correct people when they refer to the GNU system as "Linux". But please, try not to, and try to understand the difference.
It takes companies years, millions, and hundreds of megabytes to create successful games, and the success to linux is a game that actually runs on linux?
What about having Free games? Developed by hackers on the internet, with focus on gameplay and writing instead of millions of dollars worth of eye candy? Proprietry software, including games, hurts society. Please do not support it. Don't trade your Freedom for the convenience of playing a Proprietry game.
Windows games are not Free. What I mean by "Free" here, is Free as in Freedom. It doesn't mean zero price. Unless you can access the source code and compile these games natively on a GNU/Linux system, this would be a step back for the Free Software movement.
What you're suggesting here is trading freedom for convenience. It might be more convenient at the moment to play Windows games, but in the long run, this will hinder the Free software movement. A lot of people say:
"Games take a lot of money to develop, if game companies stopped creating games, no games would be developed at all, or at very least, worse quality games would be developed."
But I disagree with that. For one thing, look at Free Software. Free Software has come a long way by utilizing distributed development and sharing. The same could be done in the game arena. Talented graphics artists and musicians and animators could distribute their works online and coordinate with Free Software developers to create games. Perhaps this new (in terms of gaming development) method would also result in less focus on eye-candy and more focus on writing and gameplay.
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Soluble Protein crystallisation experiment One of the processes that helps scientist learn about diseases like HIV, is called Soluble Protein Crystallisation (SPC). This process gives scientists a way to understand the immune system and learn how to make it more effective.
Embryo and Stem Cell Development (ESCD) Project Understanding stem cells holds the key to healing serious injuries and disease. This is because where the cells in one part of the body have been damaged, stem cells may one day be used to repair the injury.Studying the heart, muscles and energy in space Space places a very different set of strains on the human body to those we encounter on earth. Much of the science conducted in orbit has been aimed at understanding how we function when under conditions of "micro-gravity".
UCT monitors Shuttleworth Not just anybody is suitably qualified to work out a training programme for astronauts living between heaven and Earth.Forgive me, but a lot of those sound more worthwhile than "materials" research and product testing...
Shuttleworth and Tito may have been essentially tourists
This is incorrect. I'm not sure about Tito, but Shuttleworth was definitely not just a tourist, he performed experiments on the ISS.
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In the modern world, we are seperated from our neighbours by "motor car bubbles". Previously, horses were used for the majority of transportation, and trains (wherein one could still be closer to one's neighbour) were used for long-distance transportation.
Today, the use of trains and other public transport has declined, especially in countries like the United States and Canada, and private car use has soared. This is one area where technology has hindered, not helped, society. Yes, cars may be faster, but the social implications are staggering.With Free Software, things like this would not happen. With more hackers on the internet checking the source code of programs for bugs, and the core development teams using appropriate MD5 hashes when distributing binaries and source code tarballs, Spyware would become extinct. The problem here is the proprietry software mindset. It is fundamentally anti-social and against the principles of sharing and helping your neighbour. Wider adoption of Free Software would go a long way to solving this problem.
game that actually runs on linux?
Please don't use that terminology. What you are referring to as "Linux" is actually a variant of the GNU system with the Linux kernel in it. When Linus and the rest of the Linux kernel developers started looking around for OS components in the early 90s, it was no coincidence that most of the components they needed were there - the GNU tools. The GNU project predates Linux by 7 years, the project was founded in 1984, and most of the code comprising a GNU/Linux system is from the GNU project. So people are mistaken if they refer to the GNU system as "Linux".
Developers know the difference, they know that the Linux kernel is just that, a kernel, but the whole system should be called the "GNU/Linux system", but because "Linux" has become so popular with the media and with the end-user as a name, developers have stopped trying to correct people when they refer to the GNU system as "Linux". But please, try not to, and try to understand the difference.
It takes companies years, millions, and hundreds of megabytes to create successful games, and the success to linux is a game that actually runs on linux?
What about having Free games? Developed by hackers on the internet, with focus on gameplay and writing instead of millions of dollars worth of eye candy? Proprietry software, including games, hurts society. Please do not support it. Don't trade your Freedom for the convenience of playing a Proprietry game.
Windows games are not Free. What I mean by "Free" here, is Free as in Freedom. It doesn't mean zero price. Unless you can access the source code and compile these games natively on a GNU/Linux system, this would be a step back for the Free Software movement.
What you're suggesting here is trading freedom for convenience. It might be more convenient at the moment to play Windows games, but in the long run, this will hinder the Free software movement. A lot of people say:
"Games take a lot of money to develop, if game companies stopped creating games, no games would be developed at all, or at very least, worse quality games would be developed."
But I disagree with that. For one thing, look at Free Software. Free Software has come a long way by utilizing distributed development and sharing. The same could be done in the game arena. Talented graphics artists and musicians and animators could distribute their works online and coordinate with Free Software developers to create games. Perhaps this new (in terms of gaming development) method would also result in less focus on eye-candy and more focus on writing and gameplay.