It doesn't need to be either or... sadly budgets have to be met, so we are limited finanically. NASA did a good job of stretching this out by doing the low cost rovers and satellites, but I dont think a moon base, to which we'd entrust the lives of our astronauts, can be done cheaply.
I do admit colonizing space is a worthy and admirable goal. However, I feel the current declaration is motivated more by politics than a thirst for knowledge.
As a long time follower of our space exploits, I was dismayed when NASA announced their plans to not service hubble. When the massive outcry came forth, they were smart and decided to do the robotic mission thing. My two cents on this matter: we can learn more from using telescopes such as hubble than we can by going back to the effing moon. This article shows that, even after all these years, hubble is a key part of our space exploration program - and it should stay that way.
I just think that, with the funding, the projects are encouraged in a certain direction. This isn't always bad, but seeing something with a "Optimized for the Pentium 4" logo always makes me wonder what would have happened if it didnt have this funding. (I would say the same thing if it was optimized for AMD)...
'The first bit of news is that as of last Monday, I am working for Intel. They generously offered a full-time position, off-site, with my time mostly spent on UML. This basically means that UML is no longer a part-time, after-hours thing for me, so we should start seeing more work happening on it, especially compared to the last month or two.'
Will this mean that Intel might have a chance to influence its development? The true benefit of projects such as this is their independence from the big brother corporations who attempt to control the industry/market.
Its nice to see that Linux is really emerging as a Windows alternative for the whole family. Also, it should give the kids a nice challenge to get around the blockers...;-)
My frist reaction to this article was excitement - Sony does make quality products, and the size, battery life and appearance made it look mighty tempting. Sadly, its whats under the hood that counts.
I own a Sony netMD walkman, and let me tell you, that thing is a beast - surviving long drops, falling into a pool and enduring nuclear winters. However, the idiots at sony insist on using the atrac format which is their way of enforcing DRM (you can only check the song out 3 times before you have to check one of them in) and you cant check in music that you record from an external source.
Because they refuse to open source their drivers for encoding and transferring atrac to the MD player, you're stuck with their (extremely buggy) software (OpenMG Jukebox). It crashes my computer every time I attempt to transfer, which results in glitches in audio. The audio quality itself of atrac isn't too bad, but, as a result of having experienced the frustration of putting my mp3s onto my MD player, I'll pass on this and get something that isn't anal (ipod or iriver!)
Step 1: Drop pants
Step 2: Sit on toilet
Step 3: Once finished, scoop resultant excrement out and dump into a collection box labeled "Windows", "Office", "Hotmail/MSN" or "IIS"
Step 4: Repeat as desired
You see, Linux is bound to fail as a viable alternative unless it, too, can follow these steps...
If you're referring to the monolithic mozilla browser, I would recommend trying Firefox, it loads almost as quick as IE on my computer, and IMHO is infinitely better than its m$ counterpart.
I remember one theme on 0.8 gave me two of every itme on my toolbars, and when you tied to delete one, it instead deleted the other instance of the button... hopefully, I wont have the same problem with 0.9...
"microsoft anything " makes me a bit worried... soon, they'll only let their propriatary software players only play files encoded in that format... not that I use their players, but still....
Damn, that was one fun game, I bought a whole Maxis Pack thing with that, sim copter and others...
"Crap, that crazed/. reader just mowed down half of our corporate users!"
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"All from 20 feet away?"
the article says 20 meters.
Wow, I'll finally be able to see my "blobs" in high resolution... and color!
*pulls out wallet*
It doesn't need to be either or... sadly budgets have to be met, so we are limited finanically. NASA did a good job of stretching this out by doing the low cost rovers and satellites, but I dont think a moon base, to which we'd entrust the lives of our astronauts, can be done cheaply.
I do admit colonizing space is a worthy and admirable goal. However, I feel the current declaration is motivated more by politics than a thirst for knowledge.
As a long time follower of our space exploits, I was dismayed when NASA announced their plans to not service hubble. When the massive outcry came forth, they were smart and decided to do the robotic mission thing. My two cents on this matter: we can learn more from using telescopes such as hubble than we can by going back to the effing moon. This article shows that, even after all these years, hubble is a key part of our space exploration program - and it should stay that way.
gah, if only the US was like this... we could have voted to change the vote of a member of the electoral college to one in favor of Gore...
I dont know about the iPods, but I remember a site which showed how to drop a larger drive into an archos jukebox...
Suddenly taking the burden of my friend's dead iPod off his shoulders doesn't seem so bad...
I just think that, with the funding, the projects are encouraged in a certain direction. This isn't always bad, but seeing something with a "Optimized for the Pentium 4" logo always makes me wonder what would have happened if it didnt have this funding. (I would say the same thing if it was optimized for AMD)...
Will this mean that Intel might have a chance to influence its development? The true benefit of projects such as this is their independence from the big brother corporations who attempt to control the industry/market.
Its nice to see that Linux is really emerging as a Windows alternative for the whole family. ;-)
If at first you don't friccasse, fry fry a henAlso, it should give the kids a nice challenge to get around the blockers...
I don't see a search page, all I get is this:?
MISSING CONTROL: lwhead
MISSING CONTROL: lwbody
Is this the result of Microsoft getting slashdotted? (kinda like putting a bag of holding inside a portable hole...)
Its all fun and game 'till someone loses an eye... then it's just fun
My frist reaction to this article was excitement - Sony does make quality products, and the size, battery life and appearance made it look mighty tempting. Sadly, its whats under the hood that counts.
I own a Sony netMD walkman, and let me tell you, that thing is a beast - surviving long drops, falling into a pool and enduring nuclear winters. However, the idiots at sony insist on using the atrac format which is their way of enforcing DRM (you can only check the song out 3 times before you have to check one of them in) and you cant check in music that you record from an external source.
Because they refuse to open source their drivers for encoding and transferring atrac to the MD player, you're stuck with their (extremely buggy) software (OpenMG Jukebox). It crashes my computer every time I attempt to transfer, which results in glitches in audio. The audio quality itself of atrac isn't too bad, but, as a result of having experienced the frustration of putting my mp3s onto my MD player, I'll pass on this and get something that isn't anal (ipod or iriver!)
Putting the 'laughter' in 'manslaughter'Step 1: Drop pants Step 2: Sit on toilet Step 3: Once finished, scoop resultant excrement out and dump into a collection box labeled "Windows", "Office", "Hotmail/MSN" or "IIS" Step 4: Repeat as desired You see, Linux is bound to fail as a viable alternative unless it, too, can follow these steps...
If you're referring to the monolithic mozilla browser, I would recommend trying Firefox, it loads almost as quick as IE on my computer, and IMHO is infinitely better than its m$ counterpart.
Well, the SP2 update, due out this later this summer (read: 4th quarter '04), has a bunch of IE updates. however, I like my ff...
I remember one theme on 0.8 gave me two of every itme on my toolbars, and when you tied to delete one, it instead deleted the other instance of the button... hopefully, I wont have the same problem with 0.9...
"microsoft anything " makes me a bit worried... soon, they'll only let their propriatary software players only play files encoded in that format... not that I use their players, but still....
Damn, that was one fun game, I bought a whole Maxis Pack thing with that, sim copter and others... "Crap, that crazed /. reader just mowed down half of our corporate users!"
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Wired article my ass... its because the article got
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