I hope and think that people are starting to realize that newer is not always better, and at the same time realizing that Microsoft doesn't always tell the truth. I also hope and think that this will speed up the adoption of Linux for the desktop, even if it is not quite ready for everybody yet.
I am a Linux user at my workplace but the Windows systems we have all run XP. Our IT people will buy Vista when they can use it across the entire site. Until then they will deploy new systems with the old OS.
Any interface difficulty can be addressed through enough training!
Training and integration are lucrative businesses. Why would a software company improve their product to the point where customers started buying fewer services?
...are sensitive to extremes of temperature, and are needed to maintain temperature stability. Frankly I am surprised they have lasted as long as this, given the treatment they are getting.
I think the reason they don't do this is because NASA has had a hard time finding reliable martians with which it could entrust the construction of the landing strip.
The Opportunity landing site is so flat that I actually think you could land a winged vehicle there.
I reckon you could land an aircraft at a couple of hundred metres per second on the totally flat sandy plains at the Opportunity landing site. The area has been accurately surveyed from the ground and has (IMHO) the idea surface: a dusting of nice draggy dust underlayed by a hard sheet of totally flat rock.
Honestly they will have to send a robotic test mission like they did with apollo
I was puzzled by that (Neil and Buzz were the first to pilot an LM all the way down and up) but then I realised you were talking about the CM. I don't think that one was in much doubt because they had the experience of Mercury and Gemini, and it was on Earth after all.
My bet is on a system with an orbiter, a surface to orbit vehicle, possibly using in-situ resources, and a lander with a crushable descent stage.
You enter orbit and pick your landing site. Send the ascent stage down first under remote control (ie, not autonomous) with the fuel tanks empty so it is nice and fluffy. The manned lander goes down next and as you imply, it won't be able to do much of a powered descent. Pete Conrad wouldn't have touched this one. The retros would be automatic and operate over the last couple of hundred metres and the landing will be hard.
Then the crew go EVA, stagger over to the ascent stage and complete the job while waiting for it to fuel up by electrolysing water.
Microsoft has sounded the death knell for Novell/SuSE and Linspire. As the software moves on, they will have to maintain their own clean-room tree's under GPLv2 in order to both continue doing business and to satisfy their contracts with Microsoft.
Maybe the next step will be for Microsoft to maintain their own GPLv2 Linux distribution, which they will proceed to market to Tivo and other builders of DRM equipped embedded systems.
I read the book years ago. In it the designers built a tank and used marbles as scale model bombs. It doesn't say anything about a computer used in the design. I wonder if information about the computer was left out for reasons of security.
A woman about 20 years older than me told how her dad took the family on a holiday to Adelaide when she was a kid. All the way there and back (to Melbourne) they had to stop every 50 miles to scrape the rabbit carcases out of the wheel bays.
I don't understand how they're getting the 8 meters. You can see a guy's shoe in the picture for comparison
This is old news so I have to think back, but I recall than the tentacles appear to be chopped off, probably because the squid has been partly eaten. Perhaps the longer length is the estimated length when it was alive.
When I read the recent news about Apple buying the copyright of CUPS I wondered if the ad-hoc approach to copyright in the Linux kernel project might be the best way to go.
The FSF could, in theory, get taken over and the license for all GNU software changed to something more restrictive. This would be almost impossible with Linux, because copyright was never assigned to a single entity.
terrorists had all the advantages and were still too retarded to kill a lot of people as you'd expect they could if they had brains
Their experience as doctors is that people are forever hurting themselves in bizarre ways. Blowing themselves up in Barbecue accidents with propane bottles, etc. It should be so easy to help the process along a little bit and kill hundreds of people.
Of course, it really isn't that easy to kill people. Not their fault they didn't know that. Lets be thankful they weren't engineers like the Malaysian terrorists who did the Bali bombings.
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I am a Linux user at my workplace but the Windows systems we have all run XP. Our IT people will buy Vista when they can use it across the entire site. Until then they will deploy new systems with the old OS.
Excuse my English, I am Norwegian.There is nothing wrong with your English.
Training and integration are lucrative businesses. Why would a software company improve their product to the point where customers started buying fewer services?
...are sensitive to extremes of temperature, and are needed to maintain temperature stability. Frankly I am surprised they have lasted as long as this, given the treatment they are getting.
They are probably quite happy thinking in terms of watt hours per hour
No
The Opportunity landing site is so flat that I actually think you could land a winged vehicle there.
I reckon you could land an aircraft at a couple of hundred metres per second on the totally flat sandy plains at the Opportunity landing site. The area has been accurately surveyed from the ground and has (IMHO) the idea surface: a dusting of nice draggy dust underlayed by a hard sheet of totally flat rock.
I was puzzled by that (Neil and Buzz were the first to pilot an LM all the way down and up) but then I realised you were talking about the CM. I don't think that one was in much doubt because they had the experience of Mercury and Gemini, and it was on Earth after all.
My bet is on a system with an orbiter, a surface to orbit vehicle, possibly using in-situ resources, and a lander with a crushable descent stage.
You enter orbit and pick your landing site. Send the ascent stage down first under remote control (ie, not autonomous) with the fuel tanks empty so it is nice and fluffy. The manned lander goes down next and as you imply, it won't be able to do much of a powered descent. Pete Conrad wouldn't have touched this one. The retros would be automatic and operate over the last couple of hundred metres and the landing will be hard.
Then the crew go EVA, stagger over to the ascent stage and complete the job while waiting for it to fuel up by electrolysing water.
Or a bombe
Then we really shouldn't have driven Alan Turing into suicide.
When thinking of answers to questions like that I find it impossible to separate cryptomonicon from reality.
As usual, wikipedia has some answers
Maybe the next step will be for Microsoft to maintain their own GPLv2 Linux distribution, which they will proceed to market to Tivo and other builders of DRM equipped embedded systems.
With an upgrade path to WinCE, or course.
Up until Myxomatosis took off they probably got eaten sometimes. After that, hardly at all.
I am 41 and my Grandfather was the right age to be working on this during WW2.
By the standards of the day four square metres is small.
I read the book years ago. In it the designers built a tank and used marbles as scale model bombs. It doesn't say anything about a computer used in the design. I wonder if information about the computer was left out for reasons of security.
A woman about 20 years older than me told how her dad took the family on a holiday to Adelaide when she was a kid. All the way there and back (to Melbourne) they had to stop every 50 miles to scrape the rabbit carcases out of the wheel bays.
I haven't read that one but I loved The Planiverse
Of course. The really silly bit is that they are always referred to as databases.
Better hurry up and use those mod points
Why? Is there something different about you?
Since our HR department does everything in Excel, this tool would probably do the entire job.
This is old news so I have to think back, but I recall than the tentacles appear to be chopped off, probably because the squid has been partly eaten. Perhaps the longer length is the estimated length when it was alive.
When I read the recent news about Apple buying the copyright of CUPS I wondered if the ad-hoc approach to copyright in the Linux kernel project might be the best way to go.
The FSF could, in theory, get taken over and the license for all GNU software changed to something more restrictive. This would be almost impossible with Linux, because copyright was never assigned to a single entity.
Their experience as doctors is that people are forever hurting themselves in bizarre ways. Blowing themselves up in Barbecue accidents with propane bottles, etc. It should be so easy to help the process along a little bit and kill hundreds of people.
Of course, it really isn't that easy to kill people. Not their fault they didn't know that. Lets be thankful they weren't engineers like the Malaysian terrorists who did the Bali bombings.