"Again and again, life has proven itself to be a real beyutch to kill. Bottom of the sea near lava vents. Antarctic wastelands which are the driest places on earth."
The Martian surface is compartively very harsh.
It should also be pointed out that the myriad species and diverse enviornments on Earth, combined with the co-evolution between dinstinct but intertwined life forms, seems to be a success factor in the continued survival of life.
I'm still trying to figure out what this could be used for @ $600, aside from being an Enron-style corporate gift that would go unused. I guess if you're one of those PDA enthusiasts, that is just really into carrying around and manipulating little bits of semi-useful data, this is a step in a new direction, but I mean... seriously.
"The real issue here isn't astronaut safety, but asset safety. We have hundreds of astronauts, but only three shuttles. As such, we should be concentrating solely on how to maximize their survivability and not expending so many resources on crew survivability in the event of a catastrophic failure."
When we start supporting materialism over life, we've gone the wrong direction. I believe in searching for answers to our questions, but if we start caring more about our means instead of those that may risk their lives to achieve it, it's possible we've missed the purpose.
It's clear that Russia designs things to be used once and replaced. It's a good strategy. Look at their spacesuits: Russia intends for them to be used up and then discarded, provided extras. Whereas the USA sends up very specific space suits which must be carted up and down from space for restoration.
To suggest that a maintenance plan is better than a "brute force" approach is questionable at this point.
Frankly, I like how Russia does space. They keep it simple, they send backups. Then again, the USA's refusal to use disposable technology drives our innovation.
Let's just consider that that both ways are valid, and we're all humans trying to explore our existence. What is space travel? Just hanging out above the air because you can? Don't you have any interest in what's out there?
I'm going to go ahead and admit that I've never designed a space faring vessel. That said, I'm going to go ahead and give these people the benefit of the doubt and assume that in piecing this thing together, they worked as well as they could under the money and time constraints they exist in that they could.
These people all know lives are at stake and most probably have a passion for it.
The point is, it may be obvious. Some fool would say hindsight 20/20, but seriously, in something THAT SOPHISTICATED if we don't have obvious comments for improvement after an incident that occurs, I'd be suprised.
Naturally, any problem that occurs on a sophisticated product will always have any easy solution:
why didn't they just blah blah
That's a main reason Microsoft gets raped in the tech community. hehe
I'd make a joke about you making a joke about him without realizing he was obvioulsy not serious, but you got modded +5, and, as a newb, I'm terrified the consequences of questioning your authoritah.
I think the key to disrupting IE is by creating things it doesn't or won't support.
It can't be done quickly, I don't think, but slowly, as the browsers merge in their usefull and techs that disdain MS help ignorant users to install and use them, MS can be made an equal player.
Instead of a dominate force that will eventually control the US Media by holding the power of the infrastructure.
They have more people. Are you really that suprised that 4x as many people can accomplish more, when organized just as well?
The primary tension in the world these days is the coalescing of major governments into a single entity because it threatens the ways of those who many not concus with the bulk.
It is the struggle between the few and the many that drives us as a people.
There is, however, a big difference between the USA and China, and it is this:
While China has people working just to barely survive, even the homeless in the USA can find drinking fountains and food.
As I could say, stronger than the words of Jesus himself, the human society just needs Star Trek replicators. All problems solved.
"...And we already know there is no life in space"
When did we figure this out? We're floating around in space on a ball of rock. Sort of pretentious to assume that the tiny little speck we consume and what we can view into the past from there (from the speed with which light travels) is all we've got, don't ya think?
"The NASA of today should focus on the practical, useful aspects of space, instead of being used as a political tool by whatever president is in office."
pratical? spiritual?
I agree it shouldn't be used as a tool, but no matter what we do in space, with humans there, as of 2004, we will learn remarkably more than we know now about how we live, who we are, and where we can go.
http://www.nasatechnology.com/
NASA's byproducts make the missions thus far almost pale in compairson, if you're actually so spiritually devoid that you consider exploring your own universe, that which sustains you, a waste of money.
Hell, if the USA hadn't invaded IRAQ we could have given NASA 10x its budget, and learned about us, as a species, a people, a planet, a consciousness.
And yet, here we are, grounding our efforts because a few people died tragically. It's sad, yes, but so it sending thousands to their death for a questionable cause.
How can we value life more in war, but less in understanding ourselves as people?
The Earth spins round and round. It's all a mystery.
Just because we all live here on Earth doesn't mean we can't sustain ourselves elsewhere, and furthermore, that the journey won't net us valuable knowledge and intelligence that can greatly benefit those of us here on Earth.
It's supposed to comback online in 2005.
Aside from that, safety concerns are a joke. These astronauts want to go to the space and the government, for political reasons is preventing them.
What do you think test pilots, and the true explorers have been doing for ages?
Sure, we don't want to needlessly die, but we're a bunch of water-meat-bags attached to a ball of rock -- if we're interested in the giant cosmos that supports us, and are willing to risk our lives to do so, isn't that a noble cause?
My god. The USA will send thousands to their death to a country rich in oil, and yet, they won't even risk 5 or 10 people to explore the vast universe they live.
What a short-sided pitiful view of the world.
Right now, if I could fly in the shuttle, and they'd take me into space for some dangerous mission, I would go. No shit.
Do you even remotely have any idea of the spin-off products created by NASA in these adventures to space?
We're not just learning how to go to space. NASA is DIRECTLY responsible for many of the household conveniences you no doubt ignorantly use, as well as THOUSANDS of other spin-off products that make BILLIONS for the US Economy.
People really need to lay off NASA that believe these missions are only about their surface purpose. The technology in doing what these people do to get into space is literally indispensable in real world applications and is DRIVING the U.S. technologically and economically, despite the "irrelevant" nature of the missions, in a nation devoid of spiritual inclination.
Mod me to the moon... and mars! *cough*
What's with all these people going "OMG wot do teh Sweds need hax0r ship for??!"?
Click here to see a page about some of the Swedish naval ships.
I mean, they have submarines and stealth ships, etc. Are these "jokes" and comments about why the Swedish would have any need for a military subtle jokes, or ignorant comments from people in the USA who think they are in the only country on earth with a military and navy?
With Windows you don't have all this complex "distro" review process. What sort of creepy non-mainstream people frequent this website? distros? debian? this is gibberish, seriously?
-Special Windows User
You have to assume they are going to sell them, but even so, it seems like if they show up on Ebay...
If you're the kind of person that can pay for a DS3 connection to begin with, it's doubtful you need to be stealing that kind of hardware.
I didn't suggest it would. The point is, it will force the ISP to dig up more extensive records as well as increase the amount of requests someone like the RIAA must make to an ISP to track a user over a longer period of time.
Anything to help increase the "paperwork" ISPs must do will help to encourage ISPs that promote anonymity and don't respond to these sort of requests made by other companies.
Slashdot Mirror
seeds coming.
Once something becomes a standard, it is much easier to discuss making it law / required.
"Again and again, life has proven itself to be a real beyutch to kill. Bottom of the sea near lava vents. Antarctic wastelands which are the driest places on earth."
The Martian surface is compartively very harsh.
It should also be pointed out that the myriad species and diverse enviornments on Earth, combined with the co-evolution between dinstinct but intertwined life forms, seems to be a success factor in the continued survival of life.
hehe.
they have an option when you order for a color display...
I'm still trying to figure out what this could be used for @ $600, aside from being an Enron-style corporate gift that would go unused. I guess if you're one of those PDA enthusiasts, that is just really into carrying around and manipulating little bits of semi-useful data, this is a step in a new direction, but I mean... seriously.
"The real issue here isn't astronaut safety, but asset safety. We have hundreds of astronauts, but only three shuttles. As such, we should be concentrating solely on how to maximize their survivability and not expending so many resources on crew survivability in the event of a catastrophic failure." When we start supporting materialism over life, we've gone the wrong direction. I believe in searching for answers to our questions, but if we start caring more about our means instead of those that may risk their lives to achieve it, it's possible we've missed the purpose.
It's clear that Russia designs things to be used once and replaced. It's a good strategy. Look at their spacesuits: Russia intends for them to be used up and then discarded, provided extras. Whereas the USA sends up very specific space suits which must be carted up and down from space for restoration. To suggest that a maintenance plan is better than a "brute force" approach is questionable at this point. Frankly, I like how Russia does space. They keep it simple, they send backups. Then again, the USA's refusal to use disposable technology drives our innovation. Let's just consider that that both ways are valid, and we're all humans trying to explore our existence. What is space travel? Just hanging out above the air because you can? Don't you have any interest in what's out there?
I'm going to go ahead and admit that I've never designed a space faring vessel. That said, I'm going to go ahead and give these people the benefit of the doubt and assume that in piecing this thing together, they worked as well as they could under the money and time constraints they exist in that they could. These people all know lives are at stake and most probably have a passion for it. The point is, it may be obvious. Some fool would say hindsight 20/20, but seriously, in something THAT SOPHISTICATED if we don't have obvious comments for improvement after an incident that occurs, I'd be suprised. Naturally, any problem that occurs on a sophisticated product will always have any easy solution: why didn't they just blah blah That's a main reason Microsoft gets raped in the tech community. hehe
I'd make a joke about you making a joke about him without realizing he was obvioulsy not serious, but you got modded +5, and, as a newb, I'm terrified the consequences of questioning your authoritah.
I think the key to disrupting IE is by creating things it doesn't or won't support. It can't be done quickly, I don't think, but slowly, as the browsers merge in their usefull and techs that disdain MS help ignorant users to install and use them, MS can be made an equal player. Instead of a dominate force that will eventually control the US Media by holding the power of the infrastructure.
Yes they "should" be!
They have more people. Are you really that suprised that 4x as many people can accomplish more, when organized just as well? The primary tension in the world these days is the coalescing of major governments into a single entity because it threatens the ways of those who many not concus with the bulk. It is the struggle between the few and the many that drives us as a people. There is, however, a big difference between the USA and China, and it is this: While China has people working just to barely survive, even the homeless in the USA can find drinking fountains and food. As I could say, stronger than the words of Jesus himself, the human society just needs Star Trek replicators. All problems solved.
"...And we already know there is no life in space" When did we figure this out? We're floating around in space on a ball of rock. Sort of pretentious to assume that the tiny little speck we consume and what we can view into the past from there (from the speed with which light travels) is all we've got, don't ya think?
"The NASA of today should focus on the practical, useful aspects of space, instead of being used as a political tool by whatever president is in office." pratical? spiritual? I agree it shouldn't be used as a tool, but no matter what we do in space, with humans there, as of 2004, we will learn remarkably more than we know now about how we live, who we are, and where we can go.
http://www.nasatechnology.com/ NASA's byproducts make the missions thus far almost pale in compairson, if you're actually so spiritually devoid that you consider exploring your own universe, that which sustains you, a waste of money. Hell, if the USA hadn't invaded IRAQ we could have given NASA 10x its budget, and learned about us, as a species, a people, a planet, a consciousness. And yet, here we are, grounding our efforts because a few people died tragically. It's sad, yes, but so it sending thousands to their death for a questionable cause. How can we value life more in war, but less in understanding ourselves as people? The Earth spins round and round. It's all a mystery.
Just because we all live here on Earth doesn't mean we can't sustain ourselves elsewhere, and furthermore, that the journey won't net us valuable knowledge and intelligence that can greatly benefit those of us here on Earth.
It's supposed to comback online in 2005. Aside from that, safety concerns are a joke. These astronauts want to go to the space and the government, for political reasons is preventing them. What do you think test pilots, and the true explorers have been doing for ages? Sure, we don't want to needlessly die, but we're a bunch of water-meat-bags attached to a ball of rock -- if we're interested in the giant cosmos that supports us, and are willing to risk our lives to do so, isn't that a noble cause? My god. The USA will send thousands to their death to a country rich in oil, and yet, they won't even risk 5 or 10 people to explore the vast universe they live. What a short-sided pitiful view of the world. Right now, if I could fly in the shuttle, and they'd take me into space for some dangerous mission, I would go. No shit.
Do you even remotely have any idea of the spin-off products created by NASA in these adventures to space? We're not just learning how to go to space. NASA is DIRECTLY responsible for many of the household conveniences you no doubt ignorantly use, as well as THOUSANDS of other spin-off products that make BILLIONS for the US Economy. People really need to lay off NASA that believe these missions are only about their surface purpose. The technology in doing what these people do to get into space is literally indispensable in real world applications and is DRIVING the U.S. technologically and economically, despite the "irrelevant" nature of the missions, in a nation devoid of spiritual inclination. Mod me to the moon... and mars! *cough*
What's with all these people going "OMG wot do teh Sweds need hax0r ship for??!"? Click here to see a page about some of the Swedish naval ships. I mean, they have submarines and stealth ships, etc. Are these "jokes" and comments about why the Swedish would have any need for a military subtle jokes, or ignorant comments from people in the USA who think they are in the only country on earth with a military and navy?
With Windows you don't have all this complex "distro" review process. What sort of creepy non-mainstream people frequent this website? distros? debian? this is gibberish, seriously? -Special Windows User
You have to assume they are going to sell them, but even so, it seems like if they show up on Ebay... If you're the kind of person that can pay for a DS3 connection to begin with, it's doubtful you need to be stealing that kind of hardware.
Just because people CAN access something at work doesn't mean they will. Censorship does more harm than good.
Until filters can understand context, keyword filters will always be stupid. Ass.
I didn't suggest it would. The point is, it will force the ISP to dig up more extensive records as well as increase the amount of requests someone like the RIAA must make to an ISP to track a user over a longer period of time. Anything to help increase the "paperwork" ISPs must do will help to encourage ISPs that promote anonymity and don't respond to these sort of requests made by other companies.