Hear! Hear! Most of my desktop backgrounds come www.nasa.gov's image gallery. The current one in use is titled "Sunrise over Mars", taken by one of the rovers.
BTW for the curious: I tried to find it on NASA's image gallery, and failed(was going to link to it). A Google image search for that title found it.:-) This is it, but not the higher resolution image I got from NASA's sight a few years ago.
That image blew my socks off! Wow! A picture from Mars I can relate to! I've seen many sunrises from good old planet Earth, but from another planet?!?!? It gives me goose bumps!
NASA has already explained this. It was not an oversight/mistake. The mission parameters only had a 90 day window. Why sacrifice weight, available space, and $$$ for features not needed for the job requirements.
It's not like software, where added features above requirements adds value at little, to no cost. In this case, added features have a sever penalty to the requirements.
I find your comment very interesting, and frankly, a relief of sorts. I was starting to feel like I was alone with this POV. That made me question it, and still could find no 'chink in the armor', which caused me to question others about it. That was a circuitous path that led back to no 'chink in the armor'.
I wonder if dolphins pity us for being 'landlubbers'?
Wow! What a revelation for me. I say this as a former n00b-troll.
I will say that this 'lesson gave to me' in my ms- spent[sic] [1]youth had a profound positive influence on my internet behavior, except when i 'drink while posting' here on/., sad to say. Again, wow. Thanks very much, BTW, really.
[1] Some habits are hard to break.;-) As my wife has said about me many times, "At least he's house-broke, but he's not domesticated. But, I've never shopped at 'Normal-Boys-R-Us'. Ever!"
Had I only known......;-) The pure, unadulterated anarchy, and beautiful chaos of this mentality(in regards to the AT commands) is absolutely stunning and awesome. Really. (no sarcasm intended)
*apply sarcasm/maybe offtopic, also Thanks to you, I now have the proper incentive to continue research and development on on my iTIME Traveler® software for your iPhone! (soon coming to an APP Store near you!) Depending on various IP lawsuits, my be also soon ported to Android and Win 7 mobile, or none of the above, including IOSx... YMMV.
My step-dad found himself on the No Fly list. It turns out it was all because his name is shared by a 'computer hacker'(a well known 'white hat', allegedly) My step-dad had worked for the State Department in Computer Operations(before IT dept.'s were called IT) for 28 years before No Fly lists existed...flew to US embassies all over the world on a regular basis for decades as a federally employed State Dept. worker.
Enter the No Fly list. Suddenly he's flagged at security, shows his passport and driver's license...no go, shows his frequent flier card for the airline on a whim, and all is magically good. WTF?
The state has drastically raised the price of protest and disobedience.
And the 'bombs' the state are dropping are causing a lot of collateral damage, with not many hits on the 'terrorists'/bad guys.
The ones that didn't march, risk jail and their lives?
The ones that made their parents proud by embracing and extending the Old Guard. "A chip off the old block!" and not an original, creative thought in his head to distract him from his mission.
Those 60's 'activists' are usually weeded out from gaining power during the selection process. Business and politics will mark you as ineligible for hire/unelectable with that stuff on your record. And with more databases go online with these records, it will become next to impossible to hide. It's already difficult to hide this info, it will become worse. Not to mention that these databases are getting massive amounts of entries of dubious nature like the scenario FTFA. Trying to stomp on a cartoonist for political satire/parody.
I understand this is probably a fishing expedition to find their Internal Affairs leaker, maybe they just want to shut the the comic strip down, whatever.
The point to focus on is they are using law enforcement and the courts to violate the artist's 1st Amendment, Constitutional right to free speech regarding politics.
Why should 'software development craftsman' be exempt from the rules/expectations required of real world craftsmen? You demand equal protections from the law, regulations, and business practices for your IP...or is IP something ephemeral and aether-like?
You insist on calling yourself 'engineers'. Hmm. So I guess it's 'Hurray for me, and Fsck you!'
Make up your mind/s already. [generalized warning...outliers expected] I guarantee you that I can 'hack and crack' the physical world far more than anyone can do so in any game. MacGyver be damned, for a n00b and amateur.
Why not approach it from a 180 degree, player POV, instead of 'what will make next quarter profits'. It is not a binary choice....there is a middle ground.
It has been arguably documented that a strong 'mod community' helped promotion/sales*KaChing!$* for said game.
YMMV, but it seems to correlate with the perceived value of the game to the user/buyer to your game.. (hint:GIGO from POV)
I am only replying to correct a modding mistake. I tried to mod you +1 Interesting, but somehow it ended -1 Troll. My apologies, truly.
The 'Wild, Wild West' days of the Internet lasted much shorter than the expanding of the US frontier(west). It would be interesting to see what could have came about on this digital frontier. *sigh*
Nowadays, governments see revenue and influence as possibilities, mega-corps/industries with money/political influence see dollar signs, ad nauseum, until the commercialism and gov't. regulation are inevitable.
Enjoy what internet freedoms exist now, fight against change to the best of your abilities/means, try to influence others....but prepare for the worse case scenario. Well, that's my plan, YMMV. I don't see it improving, just getting worse.
BTW, for the Trolls, I am not against commercial or political USE of the internet, I am against control and most regulation of it.
I don't know how far and deep the metric system has been adopted by the US military, but I do know when I was in the US Army(1977-1981), all of the weights and distance metrics presented to us were metric system.
Meters instead of yards, kilometers instead of miles, grams and kilograms instead of ounces and pounds; all of the basic stuff at least.
It was presented in an inexact, crude, Drill Instructor fashion though: "A meter is a yard, a klick (US military jargon for 'kilometer') is a half mile and a 'rock throw', and a kilo (kilogram) is about half a pound. If you need to know anything else, well, your sorry ass should have went to college and become an officer!" (close paraphrase)
On a side note: There has not been an acceptable, widely adopted metric equivalent proposed for the ubiquitous US military measure of distance known as the 'cunt hair', to the best of my knowledge. The debate usually bogs down when the color of the hair in question is brought up....and the conclusion is more research is required.;-)
Don't be so hard on yourself over this one mistake. I've seen much worse grammar from native English speakers here in the USA. [NO citation needed if you read/. comments]
After all, there is a reason that political speeches in the USA are written to target an 8th grade education.(previously covered on/. within the last year or two)
...with the most awesome charge ever: conspiracy to loiter.
I will have to agree with you on that one, for I am truly in awe.
Conspiracy to loiter. Wow.
Well, from the 'teenager in the 80's' bit, I reckon I've about a decade on you (I graduated high school in '76), but I'm going to say something that I never imagined I would ever say: In view of current happenings, I miss that era sometimes.
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See Russ1642's reply to my same comment for the correct link. Thanks 'Russ1642'!
Thanks for the link, and again thanks for the sunset correction. :-)
I blame that one on a flaky memory, and lazy search efforts by myself.
Hear! Hear!
Most of my desktop backgrounds come www.nasa.gov's image gallery.
The current one in use is titled "Sunrise over Mars", taken by one of the rovers.
BTW for the curious: :-)
I tried to find it on NASA's image gallery, and failed(was going to link to it).
A Google image search for that title found it.
This is it, but not the higher resolution image I got from NASA's sight a few years ago.
That image blew my socks off! Wow! A picture from Mars I can relate to!
I've seen many sunrises from good old planet Earth, but from another planet?!?!?
It gives me goose bumps!
NASA has already explained this. It was not an oversight/mistake.
The mission parameters only had a 90 day window.
Why sacrifice weight, available space, and $$$ for features not needed for the job requirements.
It's not like software, where added features above requirements adds value at little, to no cost.
In this case, added features have a sever penalty to the requirements.
They want to explore a crater, not make a new one.
NASA engineers and 'rocket scientists' have already determined that the 5 ton rover is too heavy for that method.
I find your comment very interesting, and frankly, a relief of sorts.
I was starting to feel like I was alone with this POV.
That made me question it, and still could find no 'chink in the armor', which caused me to question others about it.
That was a circuitous path that led back to no 'chink in the armor'.
I wonder if dolphins pity us for being 'landlubbers'?
Your attempt at a humorous comment worked on me, at least. I giggled out loud even. :-)
re: 'IOU'....I used my last mod points on the previous Fine Article, just moments ago.:-(
I think 'endotoxic shock' was the term used in the past for that.
It's been 20+ years since I learned this in school, so the name may have changed.
Wow!
What a revelation for me.
I say this as a former n00b-troll.
I will say that this 'lesson gave to me' in my ms- spent[sic] [1]youth had a profound positive influence on my internet behavior, except when i 'drink while posting' here on /., sad to say.
Again, wow.
Thanks very much, BTW, really.
[1] Some habits are hard to break. ;-)
As my wife has said about me many times, "At least he's house-broke, but he's not domesticated. But, I've never shopped at 'Normal-Boys-R-Us'. Ever!"
Had I only known......;-)
The pure, unadulterated anarchy, and beautiful chaos of this mentality(in regards to the AT commands) is absolutely stunning and awesome.
Really. (no sarcasm intended)
*apply sarcasm/maybe offtopic, also
Thanks to you, I now have the proper incentive to continue research and development on on my iTIME Traveler® software for your iPhone! (soon coming to an APP Store near you!)
Depending on various IP lawsuits, my be also soon ported to Android and Win 7 mobile, or none of the above, including IOSx... YMMV.
Well said good sir!
My step-dad found himself on the No Fly list. It turns out it was all because his name is shared by a 'computer hacker'(a well known 'white hat', allegedly)
My step-dad had worked for the State Department in Computer Operations(before IT dept.'s were called IT) for 28 years before No Fly lists existed...flew to US embassies all over the world on a regular basis for decades as a federally employed State Dept. worker.
Enter the No Fly list.
Suddenly he's flagged at security, shows his passport and driver's license...no go, shows his frequent flier card for the airline on a whim, and all is magically good.
WTF?
The state has drastically raised the price of protest and disobedience.
And the 'bombs' the state are dropping are causing a lot of collateral damage, with not many hits on the 'terrorists'/bad guys.
Who do you think is in power now?
The ones that didn't march, risk jail and their lives?
The ones that made their parents proud by embracing and extending the Old Guard.
"A chip off the old block!" and not an original, creative thought in his head to distract him from his mission.
Those 60's 'activists' are usually weeded out from gaining power during the selection process.
Business and politics will mark you as ineligible for hire/unelectable with that stuff on your record.
And with more databases go online with these records, it will become next to impossible to hide.
It's already difficult to hide this info, it will become worse.
Not to mention that these databases are getting massive amounts of entries of dubious nature like the scenario FTFA. Trying to stomp on a cartoonist for political satire/parody.
I understand this is probably a fishing expedition to find their Internal Affairs leaker, maybe they just want to shut the the comic strip down, whatever.
The point to focus on is they are using law enforcement and the courts to violate the artist's 1st Amendment, Constitutional right to free speech regarding politics.
Why should 'software development craftsman' be exempt from the rules/expectations required of real world craftsmen?
You demand equal protections from the law, regulations, and business practices for your IP...or is IP something ephemeral and aether-like?
You insist on calling yourself 'engineers'.
Hmm. So I guess it's 'Hurray for me, and Fsck you!'
Make up your mind/s already.
[generalized warning...outliers expected]
I guarantee you that I can 'hack and crack' the physical world far more than anyone can do so in any game. MacGyver be damned, for a n00b and amateur.
Why not approach it from a 180 degree, player POV, instead of 'what will make next quarter profits'. It is not a binary choice....there is a middle ground.
It has been arguably documented that a strong 'mod community' helped promotion/sales*KaChing!$* for said game.
YMMV, but it seems to correlate with the perceived value of the game to the user/buyer to your game.. (hint:GIGO from POV)
I am only replying to correct a modding mistake.
I tried to mod you +1 Interesting, but somehow it ended -1 Troll.
My apologies, truly.
The 'Wild, Wild West' days of the Internet lasted much shorter than the expanding of the US frontier(west).
It would be interesting to see what could have came about on this digital frontier. *sigh*
Nowadays, governments see revenue and influence as possibilities, mega-corps/industries with money/political influence see dollar signs, ad nauseum, until the commercialism and gov't. regulation are inevitable.
Enjoy what internet freedoms exist now, fight against change to the best of your abilities/means, try to influence others....but prepare for the worse case scenario.
Well, that's my plan, YMMV.
I don't see it improving, just getting worse.
BTW, for the Trolls, I am not against commercial or political USE of the internet, I am against control and most regulation of it.
I don't know how far and deep the metric system has been adopted by the US military, but I do know when I was in the US Army(1977-1981), all of the weights and distance metrics presented to us were metric system.
Meters instead of yards, kilometers instead of miles, grams and kilograms instead of ounces and pounds; all of the basic stuff at least.
It was presented in an inexact, crude, Drill Instructor fashion though:
"A meter is a yard, a klick (US military jargon for 'kilometer') is a half mile and a 'rock throw', and a kilo (kilogram) is about half a pound. If you need to know anything else, well, your sorry ass should have went to college and become an officer!"
(close paraphrase)
On a side note: ;-)
There has not been an acceptable, widely adopted metric equivalent proposed for the ubiquitous US military measure of distance known as the 'cunt hair', to the best of my knowledge.
The debate usually bogs down when the color of the hair in question is brought up....and the conclusion is more research is required.
Don't be so hard on yourself over this one mistake. /. comments]
I've seen much worse grammar from native English speakers here in the USA. [NO citation needed if you read
After all, there is a reason that political speeches in the USA are written to target an 8th grade education.(previously covered on /. within the last year or two)
Yeah, right.
And when your trillion PC botnet decides to phone home and shuts down the whole internet, then what?
Even on the backbone of the net, there is NOT infinite bandwidth.
Correct, good sir. :-)
I don't know how I overlooked that.
I think that is referring to the sampling rate it was recorded at, not the playback bit rate of the recording.
I will have to agree with you on that one, for I am truly in awe.
Conspiracy to loiter. Wow.
Well, from the 'teenager in the 80's' bit, I reckon I've about a decade on you (I graduated high school in '76), but I'm going to say something that I never imagined I would ever say:
In view of current happenings, I miss that era sometimes.
Whooosh!
I think you need some PF Flyers[1], AND a trampoline to catch everything flying over your head.
[1]From the wiki on PF Flyers:
emphasis mine
Oh yeah, and 'Get off my lawn!!'
For saving confusion in the future, Grasshopper, you should automagically append "GET OFF MY LAWN!!!" to every comment from a six digit /. UID.
See, sometimes the Geritol hasn't had time to kick in yet, and adding that to our comments gets overlooked in the frenzy of typing the reply.
Oh yeah, and...GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
"Loose as a goose, and you never lose." :-)
That's how I learned it as a youngster.
English can be tricky and crazy that way.
Congrat's on Japan taking the #1 spot!
What about the Prince of Orange and a stuffed hippopotamus?
Inquiring minds want to know.
What does one do with a stuffed hippo?
Should be SO, not OS...:-)