I've come to accept that man may one day land on Mars. But he won't be wearing a NASA logo on his suit.
Shame, because NASA has the biggest technological head start in this race.
I'm usually less technical and more emotional when I post about NASA, and you know what? This is an emotional issue.
Really, what got us to the moon? A clear vision from our young charismatic leader, which was followed up. We wanted to prove American technological might. We wanted to explore and push the boundaries of humans and their technology. We wanted to do the impossible, show the world our best and in the process learn all about ourselves and our place in this universe. Everyone involved in the Apollo program believed, was passionate and had what they needed to get things done. We did it with an overwhelming tide of determination.
History gives us a fine, valid example of what is needed and if the politicians really cared about getting it done, they'd follow that.
But it's just not going to happen, because guess what, they don't really care. The speech like the one we got from our current president, about the Crew Exploration Vehicle? I thought I was listening to the CEO of General Motors. Oh, and the budget allocated for this? About half to 1/3 of what was given for the Apollo program, adjusted for inflation. And that must be divided among our current programs, too. Apollo was a singular focus, uncompromising.
There are a lot of people to blame, but I think we can all start with congress and the president. Their priorities are with other things.
I used to work at Altria. No smokes for the whole family, only for you the employee. You scanned your badge in front of a giant vending machine with every brand they made, selected what you wanted, and out popped your ciggies, one pack a day. Also, you could smoke in your cubicle after 5pm and before 8am. Everything was nice to, like brass fixtures in the mens room and giant leather couches everywhere. Total IBM shop, only the best and most expensive.
It was a very nice atmosphere to work in, relaxed and just challenging enough. No one made any apologies for being in the tobacco business. They had a cafeteria like a five star restaurant, with humorously extravagant meals each day; really I barely functioned after lunch. And a company store were you could get all sorts of Kraft food goodies at ridiculesly low prices. Oh, and heated sidewalks, lol.
Every single example you list was modded troll, flaimbait or 0. What, exactly, is this injustice you are complaining about?
Anyone can dig the trenches of the Internet for some foul, stupid, pointless crap about whatever. That's the way it is.
Lighten up. Further, maybe if you were not so easy to pick on..
Listen, I have no agenda. I grew up with Amiga, use Linux and Windows every day and work on my mom's Mini Mac with pleasure.
(Although, I don't own a Mac, for that I deeply apologize.)
I really should not respond anymore. I don't like this kind of petty blah.. And now I find it humorous that you are so diligently responding to every single contrary argument against your original post. Have a laugh dude.
Oh please you are whineing about what??? Usually, if you point out an error about Macs or Linux, or even Microsoft on slashdot and site a link you get modded informative.
I really don't believe you. So site some example posts, where you get more then 1 or 2 rude responses, when you point out something error or inaccuracy like you say.
There are a few idiots in the real world. And as you say they might post things about sex acts, but they get the flamebait treatment here. You can't honestly think that anyone but the other idiots in the minority take them seriously?
One thing I do notice about "fanbois", actually, is that they get unreasonably defensive.
First, this has to do with the engineering and testing of the power systems, not with software or the "hardware" as you seem to think. Second, American computers run VxWorks in space. In a sense, these computers are largely American and do indeed run VxWorks. (I don't know who built the power supplies, and NASA and Russia or whatever should have tested things better, but space is hard and that's beside the point.)
The point is, any OS you mention with the possible exception of a very trim embedded Linux system is a really stupid choice for such things. It's likely that they have not even been ported to the types of cpus used in space, and NASA is sure the hell not going to put the latest version of MacOS or Windows on a AMD Athlon for a singular purposed mission critical embedded system.
I hope you were joking when you called in. I know I laughed when I read your post.
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So why do these stories about NASA, the ISS etc.. so rarely link to nasa.gov?
You can go here and get much better, more detailed information about the solar panels, the crew, the rest of the mission, watch live video, etc. Your tax dollars pay for it, you should use it.
It is the most comprehensive site for news in information regarding, imagine this, NASA. The only instance where it's probably not appropriate is when there is some requirement for investigative reporting, otherwise, things like the Boston Globe are likely to give the watered down, science lite AP version of what NASA tells them.
There has been "glorified sex, glorified violence and power" in our entertainment media
since we've had entertainment media, and probably before that when we sat around fire telling stories.
However, I'm not telling you to get used to it. It's good that the show pissed you off. What's the point of art if not
to be provocative?
I felt like I was watching a David Lynch movie. It was a pure WTF!?! moment. I have psychological blue balls.
As others have said, I think the cat was either Adriana, or Christopher. Despite the trick ending, there were a several fascinating plot tidbits.
There is so much to know about Mars that we don't.
No light is reflected back, which is kind of spooky. What can be inferred about the depth? How deep would it have to be for the HiRES camera stop sensing the light that is reflected?
It's nice and round, that's unusual. There is no crater ejecta so I'm guessing nothing hit it. I'm not a geologist, but aren't giant round holes in otherwise homogeneous flat terrain a bit uncommon?
Is there any radar in orbit with enough resolution to bounce a signal down one of these? I'm just so full of questions and awe.
I'll be checking unmanned spaceflight for theories to these questions. Awesome site.
Netscape 7 really was a nice browser. I can't fault it. It was fast, stable and lean. I actually think it was more stable then Firefox. Just make sure you don't install all that junk that came with it. I used 7.2 on Linux until about 1 year ago. Unfortunately, it became pretty antiquated and started rendering some pages wrong, handling things like google video not very well. Firefox eventually became the better option for me.
Now version 8 was horrible. It lasted about 5 minutes on my Windows laptop.
This version looks promising. After a brief spin, I like it. Not that it has so many great advantages or anything, but curiosity
usually encourages me to change around because things get boring.
I think everyone is really starting to get the browser right and refined. I like all the new ones, IE7, Opera and Mozilla. The competition is helping keep quality in check.
No, me to. I enjoy not having to deal with people sometimes. I'm somehow always reminded that I'm connected to the Internet, and therefore, at the mercy of the whims of others, when playing an MMORPG. Single player games allow me to fall into that private, inner world if you will, rather like reading a good book.
STALKER really reminded me of fallout. If it's like STALKER except more refined and with a better, conical plot, I'll be super happy.
Oh that is bullshit.
Mac OS had the majority of it's interface parts written in Pascal. The lower level stuff was written mostly in assembly.
Further, modern compilers would certainly get the C (Maybe C++) that WinXP is written in, pretty darn close performance wise to pure assembly. And it was easy to use assembly when the platforms were all homogeneous. The notion that you could even write OS as complex and compatible as Win XP in pure assembly is preposterous.
This is proof positive that Steve Jobs traveled to the alternate future in the Dolorean Woz invented to subsequently steal all his technology from the Amiga intergalactic headquarters on Lunar Base Lorannie.
Then one day Bill Gates found Steve's copy of the "Workbench 3.1 Users Guide" sitting in the Delorean, and hijacked it traveling back in time to give his younger self a copy, and therefore, the keys to a multi-billion dollar future of corrupt monopolies.
Oh Cripes, throw me a technology idea that no one else has thought of first. I challenge you. It's likely that I can name some obscure program on my Amiga or find a Star Trek gadget that did the same thing. Computer software and hardware is evolutionary, and ideas that come to market are almost never ever completely original. The point is, who can polish the idea, make it usable and find a market willing to pay the price for it first.
"Choosing sides in the high-def format war becomes that much harder today, as two powerhouse movie franchises hit store shelves on opposing formats. Exclusive to Blu-ray are the first two 'Pirates of the Caribbean' flicks, while exclusive to HD DVD are two different configurations of the 'Matrix' Trilogy. So which format wins this battle? According to High-Def Digest, this one's a draw. The article has capsule reviews of the four releases ('The Ultimate Matrix Collection' & 'The Complete Matrix Trilogy' on HD DVD, and 'POTC: Curse of the Black Pearl' & 'POTC: Dead Man's Chest' on Blu-ray) with links to excruciatingly in-depth reviews. In the end the site says both sets of releases boast benchmark video and audio, but a preponderance of standard-def supplements prevent all of the above from being the perfect high-def package."
Imagine movie trailer voice guy reading this. Cripes I almost drove my workstation through a cinder block wall of flames at 95MPH.
Ehh.. I don't feel so bad, about Dr. Phil representin' and all. I've seen plenty of stunningly stupid and sophomoric European television. I definitely would not use it to qualify the intelligence of a continent.
Besides, not many take that blowhard seriously. In fact the people I know are sick of most television personalities. But we still watch them. Maybe it's because there is something pitifully satisfying about winning arguments with the idiots on the boob tube.
I haven't found anything about it that's less friendly to experienced admins (for instance, the drak tools don't overwrite hand-edited config files the way SuSE's YaST does). Can anyone tell me what has started the 'less good for experts' tagline, other than that experts don't like to be seen using the distro that all the new users are trying out?
I use it at work also. And no, there are no arbitrary restrictions on functionality, and nothing stupid like what you mention with YaST. It's still very much like the RHEL we use on the production servers. The package manager kinda stinks though, as least compared to yum or, more specifically, apt-get. I think Mandrake still has the best installer, but it's leading margin is diminishing.
I'm not quite sure what started the "not for experts" tag. Really, it has all the power of any other Linux distro and my mouse has 5 buttons losers, FIVE, that's p0w3r!
I've heard every obscure theory under the sun as to why the Amiga failed.
Folks, it's simple really. Commodore went bankrupt because the ran a bad business. No fundamental change to the technology of the platform, nor a sweeping OSS movement of the operating system was needed. Jezz, they sold millions of A1200's and the 1200 was long after Amiga's heyday.
I don't think beige cases, 15Khz video signals or the lack of business applications killed the golden goose that was the Amiga platform. The potato headed management and idiots in marketing at Commodore killed it. Much as a cunning CEO named Bill Gates has ruled the software business for decades.
Read this sometime.
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The moon has tectonic activity.
Also, as others have mentioned, it gets hit with stuff, since, as you mention, there is no atmosphere.
Shame, because NASA has the biggest technological head start in this race.
I'm usually less technical and more emotional when I post about NASA, and you know what? This is an emotional issue.
Really, what got us to the moon? A clear vision from our young charismatic leader, which was followed up. We wanted to prove American technological might. We wanted to explore and push the boundaries of humans and their technology. We wanted to do the impossible, show the world our best and in the process learn all about ourselves and our place in this universe. Everyone involved in the Apollo program believed, was passionate and had what they needed to get things done. We did it with an overwhelming tide of determination.
History gives us a fine, valid example of what is needed and if the politicians really cared about getting it done, they'd follow that.
But it's just not going to happen, because guess what, they don't really care. The speech like the one we got from our current president, about the Crew Exploration Vehicle? I thought I was listening to the CEO of General Motors. Oh, and the budget allocated for this? About half to 1/3 of what was given for the Apollo program, adjusted for inflation. And that must be divided among our current programs, too. Apollo was a singular focus, uncompromising.
There are a lot of people to blame, but I think we can all start with congress and the president. Their priorities are with other things.
1.62E+21 bouncing red and white checkered balls.
I used to work at Altria. No smokes for the whole family, only for you the employee. You scanned your badge in front of a giant vending machine with every brand they made, selected what you wanted, and out popped your ciggies, one pack a day. Also, you could smoke in your cubicle after 5pm and before 8am. Everything was nice to, like brass fixtures in the mens room and giant leather couches everywhere. Total IBM shop, only the best and most expensive.
It was a very nice atmosphere to work in, relaxed and just challenging enough. No one made any apologies for being in the tobacco business. They had a cafeteria like a five star restaurant, with humorously extravagant meals each day; really I barely functioned after lunch. And a company store were you could get all sorts of Kraft food goodies at ridiculesly low prices. Oh, and heated sidewalks, lol.
Every single example you list was modded troll, flaimbait or 0. What, exactly, is this injustice you are complaining about? Anyone can dig the trenches of the Internet for some foul, stupid, pointless crap about whatever. That's the way it is. Lighten up. Further, maybe if you were not so easy to pick on.. Listen, I have no agenda. I grew up with Amiga, use Linux and Windows every day and work on my mom's Mini Mac with pleasure. (Although, I don't own a Mac, for that I deeply apologize.) I really should not respond anymore. I don't like this kind of petty blah.. And now I find it humorous that you are so diligently responding to every single contrary argument against your original post. Have a laugh dude.
Oh please you are whineing about what???
Usually, if you point out an error about Macs or Linux, or even Microsoft on slashdot and site a link you get modded informative.
I really don't believe you. So site some example posts, where you get more then 1 or 2 rude responses, when you point out something error or inaccuracy like you say.
There are a few idiots in the real world. And as you say they might post things about sex acts, but they get the flamebait treatment here. You can't honestly think that anyone but the other idiots in the minority take them seriously?
One thing I do notice about "fanbois", actually, is that they get unreasonably defensive.
First, this has to do with the engineering and testing of the power systems, not with software or the "hardware" as you seem to think. Second, American computers run VxWorks in space. In a sense, these computers are largely American and do indeed run VxWorks. (I don't know who built the power supplies, and NASA and Russia or whatever should have tested things better, but space is hard and that's beside the point.)
The point is, any OS you mention with the possible exception of a very trim embedded Linux system is a really stupid choice for such things. It's likely that they have not even been ported to the types of cpus used in space, and NASA is sure the hell not going to put the latest version of MacOS or Windows on a AMD Athlon for a singular purposed mission critical embedded system.
I hope you were joking when you called in. I know I laughed when I read your post.
So why do these stories about NASA, the ISS etc.. so rarely link to nasa.gov?
You can go here and get much better, more detailed information about the solar panels, the crew, the rest of the mission, watch live video, etc. Your tax dollars pay for it, you should use it.
It is the most comprehensive site for news in information regarding, imagine this, NASA. The only instance where it's probably not appropriate is when there is some requirement for investigative reporting, otherwise, things like the Boston Globe are likely to give the watered down, science lite AP version of what NASA tells them.
There has been "glorified sex, glorified violence and power" in our entertainment media since we've had entertainment media, and probably before that when we sat around fire telling stories. However, I'm not telling you to get used to it. It's good that the show pissed you off. What's the point of art if not to be provocative?
I felt like I was watching a David Lynch movie. It was a pure WTF!?! moment. I have psychological blue balls. As others have said, I think the cat was either Adriana, or Christopher. Despite the trick ending, there were a several fascinating plot tidbits.
There is so much to know about Mars that we don't.
No light is reflected back, which is kind of spooky. What can be inferred about the depth? How deep would it have to be for the HiRES camera stop sensing the light that is reflected?
It's nice and round, that's unusual. There is no crater ejecta so I'm guessing nothing hit it. I'm not a geologist, but aren't giant round holes in otherwise homogeneous flat terrain a bit uncommon?
Is there any radar in orbit with enough resolution to bounce a signal down one of these? I'm just so full of questions and awe.
I'll be checking unmanned spaceflight for theories to these questions. Awesome site.
Netscape 7 really was a nice browser. I can't fault it. It was fast, stable and lean. I actually think it was more stable then Firefox. Just make sure you don't install all that junk that came with it. I used 7.2 on Linux until about 1 year ago. Unfortunately, it became pretty antiquated and started rendering some pages wrong, handling things like google video not very well. Firefox eventually became the better option for me. Now version 8 was horrible. It lasted about 5 minutes on my Windows laptop. This version looks promising. After a brief spin, I like it. Not that it has so many great advantages or anything, but curiosity usually encourages me to change around because things get boring. I think everyone is really starting to get the browser right and refined. I like all the new ones, IE7, Opera and Mozilla. The competition is helping keep quality in check.
tank good for mozilla's speil cheeking.
No, me to. I enjoy not having to deal with people sometimes. I'm somehow always reminded that I'm connected to the Internet, and therefore, at the mercy of the whims of others, when playing an MMORPG. Single player games allow me to fall into that private, inner world if you will, rather like reading a good book. STALKER really reminded me of fallout. If it's like STALKER except more refined and with a better, conical plot, I'll be super happy.
Oh that is bullshit. Mac OS had the majority of it's interface parts written in Pascal. The lower level stuff was written mostly in assembly. Further, modern compilers would certainly get the C (Maybe C++) that WinXP is written in, pretty darn close performance wise to pure assembly. And it was easy to use assembly when the platforms were all homogeneous. The notion that you could even write OS as complex and compatible as Win XP in pure assembly is preposterous.
This is proof positive that Steve Jobs traveled to the alternate future in the Dolorean Woz invented to subsequently steal all his technology from the Amiga intergalactic headquarters on Lunar Base Lorannie.
Then one day Bill Gates found Steve's copy of the "Workbench 3.1 Users Guide" sitting in the Delorean, and hijacked it traveling back in time to give his younger self a copy, and therefore, the keys to a multi-billion dollar future of corrupt monopolies.
Your idea is simply an evolution of this. I win.
Oh Cripes, throw me a technology idea that no one else has thought of first. I challenge you. It's likely that I can name some obscure program on my Amiga or find a Star Trek gadget that did the same thing. Computer software and hardware is evolutionary, and ideas that come to market are almost never ever completely original. The point is, who can polish the idea, make it usable and find a market willing to pay the price for it first.
Really, that style has been around for a long time.
Check out this 14 year old Amiga demo
It practically is an iPod commercial.
The Real Motivation:
Buh-Bye Flash, hello Starlight! (or whatever it's called)
Ehh.. I don't feel so bad, about Dr. Phil representin' and all. I've seen plenty of stunningly stupid and sophomoric European television. I definitely would not use it to qualify the intelligence of a continent.
Besides, not many take that blowhard seriously. In fact the people I know are sick of most television personalities. But we still watch them. Maybe it's because there is something pitifully satisfying about winning arguments with the idiots on the boob tube.
As a user of Linux (although I can't speak for Ubuntu), Mac OS and Windows all I can say is.. ehh.. no.
I use it at work also. And no, there are no arbitrary restrictions on functionality, and nothing stupid like what you mention with YaST. It's still very much like the RHEL we use on the production servers. The package manager kinda stinks though, as least compared to yum or, more specifically, apt-get. I think Mandrake still has the best installer, but it's leading margin is diminishing.
I'm not quite sure what started the "not for experts" tag. Really, it has all the power of any other Linux distro and my mouse has 5 buttons losers, FIVE, that's p0w3r!
I've heard every obscure theory under the sun as to why the Amiga failed. Folks, it's simple really. Commodore went bankrupt because the ran a bad business. No fundamental change to the technology of the platform, nor a sweeping OSS movement of the operating system was needed. Jezz, they sold millions of A1200's and the 1200 was long after Amiga's heyday. I don't think beige cases, 15Khz video signals or the lack of business applications killed the golden goose that was the Amiga platform. The potato headed management and idiots in marketing at Commodore killed it. Much as a cunning CEO named Bill Gates has ruled the software business for decades. Read this sometime.