Also available in real time and which has been around a long time is Freefall from Advanced Analytic. It provides a lot more information and options and can also be used as your screensaver.
Will anyone of them replace MS Office? Not in the short term but watch out for Google with Gears ready for their apps. The ability to work on docs etc. offline will appeal to a lot of people.
I'll just point out that I believe the Shuttle should be retired as soon as possible, but there must be a viable domestic replacement vehicle in place ASAP.
If the reader had read the MSNBC story they might have understood that NASA commsioned several studies on different scenarios for the Shuttle. Since NASA commissions studies all the time on options for all its programs, so this study shouldn't come as any surprise.
To follow the space election political discussion including the fate of the shuttle from both sides, read this thread on NASA Watch.
Having been to Japan several times and researching the mobile internet market I agree with Bushcat. The device is designed for the Japanese market. If you go to the official Zaurus web site and read a little Japanese you will find the Mail and Internet section which describes which providers (7) provide PHS-based cards for the device. And the price is right, it works out to about $16/mth for unlimited net access with a 1 year contract.
Elon Musk the founder of SpaceX did not start this company to compete for the X-Prize and indeed the Falcon is not even competing for the prize. Instead Elon has loftier goals. After being very successful in the tech world he decided to turn his passsion into reality now that he had the money to do so. But he is a businessman first and foremost. Which means he was not about to dump money into a competition with no real business plan going forward. Instead he researched the market to try and find a niche he could enter. The low end market was needing of a cheap, reliable alternative. So he started SpaceX. To do this he needed to create 'new technology', a leap that would bring the cost down. He appears to have succeeded, we won't know until he has a successful launch. But if he does succeed then he will have brought the cost of launch down and created a market for himself.
While not as lucrative as PayPal which he co-founded, he will have created a legitimate business in an area he is passionate about.
What does this mean for the future? I think when all the X-Prize hype has evaporated people will pay more attention to what SpaceX has developed. Which is cheaper, partly reusable rockets. And although his rockets are not man rated, yet, anyone who knows Elon knows what he wants for the future of space exploration.
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Also available in real time and which has been around a long time is Freefall from Advanced Analytic. It provides a lot more information and options and can also be used as your screensaver.
Will anyone of them replace MS Office? Not in the short term but watch out for Google with Gears ready for their apps. The ability to work on docs etc. offline will appeal to a lot of people.
I'll just point out that I believe the Shuttle should be retired as soon as possible, but there must be a viable domestic replacement vehicle in place ASAP.
To follow the space election political discussion including the fate of the shuttle from both sides, read this thread on NASA Watch.
Having been to Japan several times and researching the mobile internet market I agree with Bushcat. The device is designed for the Japanese market. If you go to the official Zaurus web site and read a little Japanese you will find the Mail and Internet section which describes which providers (7) provide PHS-based cards for the device. And the price is right, it works out to about $16/mth for unlimited net access with a 1 year contract.
While not as lucrative as PayPal which he co-founded, he will have created a legitimate business in an area he is passionate about.
What does this mean for the future? I think when all the X-Prize hype has evaporated people will pay more attention to what SpaceX has developed. Which is cheaper, partly reusable rockets. And although his rockets are not man rated, yet, anyone who knows Elon knows what he wants for the future of space exploration.