If new vehicles aren't developed to reboost the ISS regularly (e.g. robotic boosters) the ISS will simply fall into the atmosphere and burn up. The European Automated Transfer Vehicle is capable of reboosting the ISS. First launch will be early 2008, according to the ESA.
Everytime a new house is built, construction workers have to dig so pipes for gas, sewer, water,... What if they hit the lines and get an entire neighborhood off the grid?
Maybe one day you'll be flying in a civilian version of that very airplane and you'll be like 30% faster there.
Maybe you won't mind that 30% increase but all the (fat/old/...) people in it would as the risk of deep vein thrombosis lowers...
Quit whining because the money spent on technology isn't spent at those who aren't willing to advance themselves (as if throwing money helps achieve that)
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The second most popular browser available today, Firefox, is a direct descendant of the Mosaic Netscape browser released in 1994. The product was created by NCSA refugees, Jim Clark and Jim Andresson. Together, they revolutionized the internet, making it synonymous with the world wide web.
NCSA Mosaic was the first popular, graphical browser available to personal computer users. Before, the internet and its resources were primarily only available to those in academia and other research institutions. Eventually, online providers began to offer internet access in addition to their proprietary networks, and HTML took off. The first browsers available to the public were very primitive, typically only capable of rendering simple text and hyperlinks. The University of Illinois, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, developed the Mosaic browser. It was innovative because it was capable of rendering images, and itself had a graphical interface. By 1993, it was the dominant force on the internet. It had almost complete dominance over the internet, and was widely applauded for its quality.
Other people and companies wanted in on the game. Jim Andresson, developer of Mosaic for UNIX, and Jim Clark left the NCSA to found Mosaic Communications on April 4, 1994. Capitalizing on the former student's familiarity of the Mosaic browser, Mosaic Communications released its first browser months later. Its name was Netscape. Almost instantly, it became more popular than Mosaic, mostly because of bundling deals with internet service providers. Navigator included many new features not found in Mosaic. The most popular one was the ability to display pages as they download. Unlike most other browsers, a user did not have to wait for the entire page to download before it was usable. The NCSA took issue with the name Mosaic Communications, and the company was renamed Netscape Communications, and the browser was renamed Navigator.
A year later, Netscape was short on funds, and decided to go public with its initial stock price at $28. On its IPO, the stock price rose to $75, an unheard of leap in the software business. Netscape continued to gain marketshare, and controlled %90 of the browser market in mid-1995.
Version 2 of Netscape included a plethora of new features, many of them haphazardly implemented. The new version included support for cookies, frames and a new email client. Netscape 2 grew even faster than the first version, and helped Netscape double its revenues every quarter in 1995.
Navigator was evolving. It had added many new features and tags that were not available on any other browser (though eventually, most of these tags would be adopted the W3C), which made it difficult for other browsers to coexist with Netscape. As its marketshare and revunes grew, so to did the company's scope. Netscape began developing a product called Constellation. Constellation would allow a user to access files from a desktop anywhere on a network. It was to make the operating system an irrelevant component on the desktop computer.
Microsoft felt threatened by Netscape's continued growth, especially its assertion that the browser would replace the operating system as the most important software on a computer. Several executives visited the Netscape campus in August of 1995, and made a proposal. Netscape would cease all development for their Windows version of Navigator, but would face no competition from Microsoft on other platforms. The company refused, and Microsoft began developing a new web browser.
Unable to develop their own web browser so quickly, Microsoft turned to Spyglass, who had licensed Mosaic's source code from the NCSA. Microsoft would give Mosaic a monthly payment, and a percentage of the revenues the browser generated. Using Mosaic code, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 1.0 on August 1995 as part of the Internet Jumpstart pack for Windows 95. The new browser was widely derided for being so primitive and clumsy. It was little m
Check out RTAI. Yes, you have to patch it, but those guys are doing an incredible job to make your linux kernel real-time.
The Real-Time Application Interface is a hard real-time extension to the Linux kernel, contributed in accordance with the Free Software guidelines. It provides the features of an industrial-grade RTOS, seamlessly accessible from the powerful and sophisticated GNU/Linux environment.
One reputable analyst, Barbara Simpson, noted that the foreign-born population (including those with Belgian citizenship) now exceeds the native-born population. I have been trying to track down this statistic. Perhaps, someone in Slashdot can help me.
I don't know Barbara Simpson, so she isn't that reputable:-p. I, as a native Belgian, can honestly say that her statement is utterly false. For a population of 10 million people, there's about 100,000 immigrants (10% of total population).
Either your source(s) is(are) wrong, or I have been lied to all my life, and everything I see on the street is fake.
Microsoft believes that combined with the eID Card MSN Messenger chatrooms will be much safer. Users would have a trustworthy way of identifying themselves online. The Belgian Federal Computer Crime Unit (FCCU) could even refuse young children access to certain chatrooms based on their electronic identity.
ID's are mandatory from 12 years. I'd rather protect children which are younger, than those that do have an ID. It's just one of those crappy reasons flumped together to get the eID through...
Did I mention that MSN Messenger doesn't even have chatrooms?
XP SP2 included canary values and hardware-implemented execution protection in order to avoid exploitable buffer overruns.
Gosh, every day I learn something new on Slashdot;-). Software and hardware implementations differ in that software is executed sequential, while hardware executes concurrently.
StefanoB
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"Straight-wing gliders are nearly trivial, once you know the shape of an aerofoil."
Getting to model the aerofoil in itself is alone a huge problem. Lift and drag coefficients are mostly got from windtunnel tests, and I don't think you have one (a windtunnel that is) in your attic either:-s.
The sky's the limit (or was it my imagination) http://www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~m 0329759/AUAV/
Well, you'll never be sure of your position with GPS-like systems: there still is a margin of a few feet, which based on the Heisenberg-these enables you to have an approximation of your speed/velocity (if you're a very small and fast travelling particle;-)).
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The Sopwith Camel was the name of a popular airplane in the WW I era.
Maybe they got it from emacs!
Next time, draw something like broken glass. I hope she freaks out on that one :-). (FYI, both things have been done before).
Everytime a new house is built, construction workers have to dig so pipes for gas, sewer, water, ... What if they hit the lines and get an entire neighborhood off the grid?
Maybe one day you'll be flying in a civilian version of that very airplane and you'll be like 30% faster there.
Maybe you won't mind that 30% increase but all the (fat/old/...) people in it would as the risk of deep vein thrombosis lowers...
Quit whining because the money spent on technology isn't spent at those who aren't willing to advance themselves (as if throwing money helps achieve that)
You forgot to mention
5)...
6)Profit!!!
My guess: the game industry decided not to claim any patents and let every game company earn some money. :-(.
Now the lawyers want some money too
Stefano
An open source database from Germany carried the name Firefox, so the project was renamed for the last time. It was called Firefox.
Replace the first 'Firefox' with 'Firebird' and everything's fine. Also, they should make their pictures smaller.
Stefano
The second most popular browser available today, Firefox, is a direct descendant of the Mosaic Netscape browser released in 1994. The product was created by NCSA refugees, Jim Clark and Jim Andresson. Together, they revolutionized the internet, making it synonymous with the world wide web.
NCSA Mosaic was the first popular, graphical browser available to personal computer users. Before, the internet and its resources were primarily only available to those in academia and other research institutions. Eventually, online providers began to offer internet access in addition to their proprietary networks, and HTML took off. The first browsers available to the public were very primitive, typically only capable of rendering simple text and hyperlinks. The University of Illinois, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, developed the Mosaic browser. It was innovative because it was capable of rendering images, and itself had a graphical interface. By 1993, it was the dominant force on the internet. It had almost complete dominance over the internet, and was widely applauded for its quality.
Other people and companies wanted in on the game. Jim Andresson, developer of Mosaic for UNIX, and Jim Clark left the NCSA to found Mosaic Communications on April 4, 1994. Capitalizing on the former student's familiarity of the Mosaic browser, Mosaic Communications released its first browser months later. Its name was Netscape. Almost instantly, it became more popular than Mosaic, mostly because of bundling deals with internet service providers. Navigator included many new features not found in Mosaic. The most popular one was the ability to display pages as they download. Unlike most other browsers, a user did not have to wait for the entire page to download before it was usable. The NCSA took issue with the name Mosaic Communications, and the company was renamed Netscape Communications, and the browser was renamed Navigator.
A year later, Netscape was short on funds, and decided to go public with its initial stock price at $28. On its IPO, the stock price rose to $75, an unheard of leap in the software business. Netscape continued to gain marketshare, and controlled %90 of the browser market in mid-1995.
Version 2 of Netscape included a plethora of new features, many of them haphazardly implemented. The new version included support for cookies, frames and a new email client. Netscape 2 grew even faster than the first version, and helped Netscape double its revenues every quarter in 1995.
Navigator was evolving. It had added many new features and tags that were not available on any other browser (though eventually, most of these tags would be adopted the W3C), which made it difficult for other browsers to coexist with Netscape. As its marketshare and revunes grew, so to did the company's scope. Netscape began developing a product called Constellation. Constellation would allow a user to access files from a desktop anywhere on a network. It was to make the operating system an irrelevant component on the desktop computer.
Microsoft felt threatened by Netscape's continued growth, especially its assertion that the browser would replace the operating system as the most important software on a computer. Several executives visited the Netscape campus in August of 1995, and made a proposal. Netscape would cease all development for their Windows version of Navigator, but would face no competition from Microsoft on other platforms. The company refused, and Microsoft began developing a new web browser.
Unable to develop their own web browser so quickly, Microsoft turned to Spyglass, who had licensed Mosaic's source code from the NCSA. Microsoft would give Mosaic a monthly payment, and a percentage of the revenues the browser generated. Using Mosaic code, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 1.0 on August 1995 as part of the Internet Jumpstart pack for Windows 95. The new browser was widely derided for being so primitive and clumsy. It was little m
Hey, ask some 20 year old what spam is: he'll know. Ask his father or mom: they don't know.
In 20 or 30 years those "not-enlightened" generations will be dead and this same inquiry will have other conclusions.
Hmmm, let me rephrase that now I have thought about how my friends respond to those 'minor' problems of the internet:
In 20 or 30 years there will be only 10% of enlightened people around, the other 90% will be just the same as now!
Geeks: better start behaving as rabbits and go make some children and educate them!
Stefano
4 more hours and April 1 2005 is finished. Hopefully the pope by then too so we can get on with our lifes.
Cheers,
Stefano
Since when is taking a picture of your kid 'interaction'?
Gee, it would have been nice if my parents had taken more pictures of me when I was a child...
StefanoB
Check out RTAI. Yes, you have to patch it, but those guys are doing an incredible job to make your linux kernel real-time.
The Real-Time Application Interface is a hard real-time extension to the Linux kernel, contributed in accordance with the Free Software guidelines. It provides the features of an industrial-grade RTOS, seamlessly accessible from the powerful and sophisticated GNU/Linux environment.
Greets,
Stefano
One reputable analyst, Barbara Simpson, noted that the foreign-born population (including those with Belgian citizenship) now exceeds the native-born population. I have been trying to track down this statistic. Perhaps, someone in Slashdot can help me.
:-p. I, as a native Belgian, can honestly say that her statement is utterly false. For a population of 10 million people, there's about 100,000 immigrants (10% of total population).
I don't know Barbara Simpson, so she isn't that reputable
Either your source(s) is(are) wrong, or I have been lied to all my life, and everything I see on the street is fake.
Greets,
Stefano
Microsoft believes that combined with the eID Card MSN Messenger chatrooms will be much safer. Users would have a trustworthy way of identifying themselves online. The Belgian Federal Computer Crime Unit (FCCU) could even refuse young children access to certain chatrooms based on their electronic identity.
ID's are mandatory from 12 years. I'd rather protect children which are younger, than those that do have an ID. It's just one of those crappy reasons flumped together to get the eID through...
Did I mention that MSN Messenger doesn't even have chatrooms?
"Misuse of parents taxes it is", would Yoda say.
Cheers,
Stefano
XP SP2 included canary values and hardware-implemented execution protection in order to avoid exploitable buffer overruns.
;-). Software and hardware implementations differ in that software is executed sequential, while hardware executes concurrently.
Gosh, every day I learn something new on Slashdot
StefanoB
-- com'along, let's go womanizing (Mr. Burns needs a chick)
From the bar right of the article
1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA. Where:
W: Weather
D: Debt
d: Money due in January pay
T: Time since Christmas
Q: Time since failed quit attempt
M: General motivational levels
NA: The need to take action
StefanoB
Better study harder that System Theory and Control course then :-)
Stefano
Magellan is a GPS-receiver manufacturer. Gallileo is the European GPS equivalent.
Steven
Strange that they don't include ATI drivers, not even the open source DRI ones. I found this line in their to-do list:
Insert Ati and Matrox drivers (like Nvidia drivers, trying to resolve diplomatically copyright problems)
Stefano
It would be nice to get some video in it, preferably from a camera pointed towards the direction of flight ;-).
"Straight-wing gliders are nearly trivial, once you know the shape of an aerofoil."
:-s.
m 0329759/AUAV/
Getting to model the aerofoil in itself is alone a huge problem. Lift and drag coefficients are mostly got from windtunnel tests, and I don't think you have one (a windtunnel that is) in your attic either
The sky's the limit (or was it my imagination)
http://www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~
Have you looked into RTAI? It's a kernel patch (even the 2.6 series) to get it real-time.
Greets,
Stefano
Well, you'll never be sure of your position with GPS-like systems: there still is a margin of a few feet, which based on the Heisenberg-these enables you to have an approximation of your speed/velocity (if you're a very small and fast travelling particle ;-)).
Greets,
Stefano