Really? What would they DO with it- and how would they pay for maintaining it in LEO? Do you have ANY idea just how "small" the thing is? Space Hotel? Not likely- and it'd cost a couple of million per person at least for a 1-2 week stay. Try again.
And how much did those celebrity "tourists" pay to go to MIR?
I'd guess that it would start tumbling first and fling off a whole bunch of debris before plunging into the atmosphere.
You want to bring it down in one piece. It's the debris that's worrisome. The big pieces they can track. It's the nuts, wrenches, and other bits that give the controllers fits. A nut travelling at 3 km/s is a pretty deadly proijectile (even if your speed is pretty close to that....) A.22 rifle bullet travels at what, 300 m/s, weighs a lot less than a nut, and will kill you. A delta of 300 m/s is not so great in orbit.
You *DO* realize that objects heat up, burn up, and slow down during re-entry, right? A.22 bullet can't travel at 300 m/s in free-fall (which is what these items would eventually slow down to).
In actuality, we need BOTH things. There's actually enough resources for maintaining low gravity manufacturing, etc. on the Moon (which we actually need to start getting to if you're going to travel to the stars in the first place...) and we need those experiments on the ISS (Which isn't zero gravity (If it was, you wouldn't need to constantly push it back into orbit...), but close enough to count for what we're needing right now...) for the reasons you give.
The brutal truth of the matter is that we're pouring money into "social" programs that are hopelessly mis-managed and we keep trimming the budgets for doing this stuff because "it's unnecessary" (Never mind that we're where we are mainly because of the space and defense budgets of the world...). Something we need to realise isn't a useful utilisation of our collective resources as a species.
We spend $1100+ Billion on some of those social programs ($500 Billion on Medicare, $620 Billion on Social Security, and let's not count all the others).
We spend $19 Billion on NASA (which, incidentally, works out to the amount we spend every 14 months on SS vs the duration of NASA). It's like cutting one vending-machine Coke from your budget when you have have payments on a pair of brand-new cars.
I remember an article in PC World about the original pentium chips. The author suggested the ideal placement of the chip was on the outside of the case with the writting:
"Place Coffee Here to Keep Warm"
Ahh yes, "nothing quite like a Pentium on a cold winter's day"
On July 21, 2011, Oracle announced they acquired Ksplice, Inc. At the time of the company was acquired, Ksplice, Inc. claimed to have over 700 companies using the service to protect over 100,000 servers. While the service had been available for multiple Linux distributions, it was stated at the time Ksplice, Inc. was acquired that "Oracle believes it will be the only enterprise Linux provider that can offer zero downtime updates."
Only 100k servers across 700 companies? That's barely anything (~140 servers per company) - they must be pretty small outfits.
While a cool idea, it's merely an extension of manual queue tracking. Give someone a time-stamped card. Record what time they get through the checkpoint, update your ticker system.
This is a great idea, assuming that your airport has multiple security checkpoints to choose from. Every airport I've flown through has one checkpoint per terminal (and no way to switch terminals without re-going through security checkpoints), or a massive single checkpoint for all terminals.
You must fly through pretty craptacular airports. Which ones do this to you?
I was actually thinking solitaire 3D or Suduko 3D. Just imagine how it would improve your gameplay.;)
I could go for *actual* 3D chess: I have an old board game of such from - I think - the 60s called "Space Chess" (and here). That'd be pretty cool in 3D.
1000m high and 2 miles long - now everybody can complain about the units of measurement!
1000m high? That's quite an achievement in just "weeks" - the Freedom Tower is only going to be 1776 feet (541m) high, and is taking *years* to complete. We need to hire this guy's workers!
Oh for christ sake. It's not even Linux that Microsoft needs to be worried about, it's Mac OSX and whatever will be next iteration in Apple's desktop computers (they're taking it the iOS route slowly). Macs are starting to get games, it has Steam already too. It has slowly gained desktop marketshare. Linux has pretty much stayed the same for the last 10 years in its desktop marketshare. On servers Windows servers and Linux servers are pretty much 50/50 and Mac has almost no marketshare (yes, Windows really is used in the server world).
I see it more as a friendly-kind "we've always had our little fights, but we do both have a nice history together" video. Kind of like an old married couple.
And it's used *VERY* widely in the server world - Exchange, AD, SQL Server: not as widespread as Linux and the various commercial Unix variants, but it is very prevalent. Also, fwiw, as of 2k8 - it doesn't even suck [much].
ICQ is used pretty heavily in some countries - Russia and other ex-Soviet republics, most notably.
That said, it's not a good IM protocol. No Unicode until a few years ago (and some clients were slow to catch up with transition), passwords limited to 8 significant characters, numeric user IDs - it's very much a dinosaur.
Guess that make/., with its numeric IDs, a dinosaur, too.
You're damn right! Latte? Latte? Arrogant little shit, people (like me) are pinching pennies cancelling even basic cable in the tight economy already trying to keep a "normal" life going with a $10 spot to Netflix. I can go to Redbox, Steve Swasey, you little asshole and get almost 3 DVDs a week! Netflix was mostly to keep my CHILD entertained with kids shows, but fuck it, it's just a latte to you, right?
Sorry for the cursing, but that mother... needs to read The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk and get some goddamn manners! This is a less for how NOT to conduct business when everyone has a direct line to 500 friends on Facebook, Twitter, G+, etc! What a retard! I hope the fact that he is spokesman for Netflix will make future employers go, "Ah, so I guess I don't have to ask why you're now looking for new employment. Well, we don't find you qualified for spokesman, but we do have janitorial."
And if you go to Redbox three days a week, you're spending at LEAST $12 a month - and that's if you *never* return them late.
Well that makes sixty percent rate hike and 50% cut in services just fine doesn't it???
Mobile data plan? If I don't even have a landline, do you really think I have a fucking expensive mobile phone, with a data plan on top of that? Are you insane?
I HAVE NO TELEVISION AND NO PHONE. That's right, I can't even call 9-1-1 in case of an emergency.
oldstrat was right, I haven't eaten out in about two years. And when I did it was a BK, so about $6 for the whole thing. I wasn't eating $30 steaks to begin with.
And a note to VolciMaster... three bucks can pay for two whole meals. Think about that the next time you order a fucking $3 latte.
And yet you can post on/.... so *HOW*, again, are you hurting?
Who the F thinks he eats out anywhere after canceling all those services? Do you have a clue? Three buck is meaning the difference to have or not for thousands more evert day and to them if you are spending $3 on a single serving of a beverage you are indeed a "rich prick". I suggest you expand your sheltered little circle.
I suppose it is the case for some people. But it certainly isn't for the folks I know working minimum wage (or slightly above): they all eat out, have cable, etc. And it's not for the people I know working at about the bottom rung (economically) of the professional ladder - teachers.
I'm with you, why does Apple care about protecting users from malicious access!?
Maybe for the same reason every other vendor cares about protecting their uses from malicious access? They want their customers to continue being their customers?
What kind of moron will allow unhindered free wifi? It's brain dead easy to set up a filtering proxy. Hell Privoxy and Dans Guardian will do most of it for you easily. Install DDWRT on that linksys and enjoy even basic keyword filtering.
I even block all ports other than 80. you can use my free wifi but based on my rules and restrictions. That's the cool part about being educated on what you are doing.
Yeah, it is cool - if you're educated on what you are doing. But for those who are not, why is anyone surprised they are running wide open?
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Really? What would they DO with it- and how would they pay for maintaining it in LEO? Do you have ANY idea just how "small" the thing is? Space Hotel? Not likely- and it'd cost a couple of million per person at least for a 1-2 week stay. Try again.
And how much did those celebrity "tourists" pay to go to MIR?
Still, better to auction it off. Make the billionaires fight for their new big boy toy ;-) the US government needs every penny it can get.
They might form a new joint company to put in the only bid and work together to maintain it, that's fine too.
One way of getting "the rich" to pay more, eh? And even voluntarily ;)
However this tends to be done *after* the hazardess materials have been removed from the ships....
Purely uninformed - but what hazmats are on the ISS?
I'd guess that it would start tumbling first and fling off a whole bunch of debris before plunging into the atmosphere.
You want to bring it down in one piece. It's the debris that's worrisome. The big pieces they can track. It's the nuts, wrenches, and other bits that give the controllers fits. A nut travelling at 3 km/s is a pretty deadly proijectile (even if your speed is pretty close to that....) A .22 rifle bullet travels at what, 300 m/s, weighs a lot less than a nut, and will kill you. A delta of 300 m/s is not so great in orbit.
You *DO* realize that objects heat up, burn up, and slow down during re-entry, right? A .22 bullet can't travel at 300 m/s in free-fall (which is what these items would eventually slow down to).
the Sahara would work, but politically it's hot enough there
Climatalogically, it's hot enough there, too.
In actuality, we need BOTH things. There's actually enough resources for maintaining low gravity manufacturing, etc. on the Moon (which we actually need to start getting to if you're going to travel to the stars in the first place...) and we need those experiments on the ISS (Which isn't zero gravity (If it was, you wouldn't need to constantly push it back into orbit...), but close enough to count for what we're needing right now...) for the reasons you give.
The brutal truth of the matter is that we're pouring money into "social" programs that are hopelessly mis-managed and we keep trimming the budgets for doing this stuff because "it's unnecessary" (Never mind that we're where we are mainly because of the space and defense budgets of the world...). Something we need to realise isn't a useful utilisation of our collective resources as a species.
We spend $1100+ Billion on some of those social programs ($500 Billion on Medicare, $620 Billion on Social Security, and let's not count all the others).
We spend $19 Billion on NASA (which, incidentally, works out to the amount we spend every 14 months on SS vs the duration of NASA). It's like cutting one vending-machine Coke from your budget when you have have payments on a pair of brand-new cars.
I remember an article in PC World about the original pentium chips. The author suggested the ideal placement of the chip was on the outside of the case with the writting:
"Place Coffee Here to Keep Warm"
Ahh yes, "nothing quite like a Pentium on a cold winter's day"
Interesting you used Markdown syntax for your link. May I ask why you chose to?
If I had to guess, it's because he hangs out on the SE family of sites
so maybe Redhat just introduces a few interesting little tweaks to some meta-portion of their system
They already do this - that's why CentOS 6 took nearly a year to arrive.
And yet Scientific Linux was able to release months ahead of CentOS from the same RH source....
On July 21, 2011, Oracle announced they acquired Ksplice, Inc. At the time of the company was acquired, Ksplice, Inc. claimed to have over 700 companies using the service to protect over 100,000 servers. While the service had been available for multiple Linux distributions, it was stated at the time Ksplice, Inc. was acquired that "Oracle believes it will be the only enterprise Linux provider that can offer zero downtime updates."
Only 100k servers across 700 companies? That's barely anything (~140 servers per company) - they must be pretty small outfits.
While a cool idea, it's merely an extension of manual queue tracking. Give someone a time-stamped card. Record what time they get through the checkpoint, update your ticker system.
This is a great idea, assuming that your airport has multiple security checkpoints to choose from. Every airport I've flown through has one checkpoint per terminal (and no way to switch terminals without re-going through security checkpoints), or a massive single checkpoint for all terminals.
You must fly through pretty craptacular airports. Which ones do this to you?
I was actually thinking solitaire 3D or Suduko 3D. Just imagine how it would improve your gameplay. ;)
I could go for *actual* 3D chess: I have an old board game of such from - I think - the 60s called "Space Chess" (and here). That'd be pretty cool in 3D.
I hope he didn't infringe on a copyrighted font for that project!
He's using a Sands Serf font
1000m high and 2 miles long - now everybody can complain about the units of measurement!
1000m high? That's quite an achievement in just "weeks" - the Freedom Tower is only going to be 1776 feet (541m) high, and is taking *years* to complete. We need to hire this guy's workers!
1,000 meters high is a kilometer, yet the length is given in miles.
Didn't NASA have a problem when they didn't convert from metric to standard?
They're just using metric feet per second
Oh for christ sake. It's not even Linux that Microsoft needs to be worried about, it's Mac OSX and whatever will be next iteration in Apple's desktop computers (they're taking it the iOS route slowly). Macs are starting to get games, it has Steam already too. It has slowly gained desktop marketshare. Linux has pretty much stayed the same for the last 10 years in its desktop marketshare. On servers Windows servers and Linux servers are pretty much 50/50 and Mac has almost no marketshare (yes, Windows really is used in the server world).
I see it more as a friendly-kind "we've always had our little fights, but we do both have a nice history together" video. Kind of like an old married couple.
And it's used *VERY* widely in the server world - Exchange, AD, SQL Server: not as widespread as Linux and the various commercial Unix variants, but it is very prevalent. Also, fwiw, as of 2k8 - it doesn't even suck [much].
ICQ is used pretty heavily in some countries - Russia and other ex-Soviet republics, most notably.
That said, it's not a good IM protocol. No Unicode until a few years ago (and some clients were slow to catch up with transition), passwords limited to 8 significant characters, numeric user IDs - it's very much a dinosaur.
Guess that make /., with its numeric IDs, a dinosaur, too.
You're damn right! Latte? Latte? Arrogant little shit, people (like me) are pinching pennies cancelling even basic cable in the tight economy already trying to keep a "normal" life going with a $10 spot to Netflix. I can go to Redbox, Steve Swasey, you little asshole and get almost 3 DVDs a week! Netflix was mostly to keep my CHILD entertained with kids shows, but fuck it, it's just a latte to you, right?
Sorry for the cursing, but that mother... needs to read The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk and get some goddamn manners! This is a less for how NOT to conduct business when everyone has a direct line to 500 friends on Facebook, Twitter, G+, etc! What a retard! I hope the fact that he is spokesman for Netflix will make future employers go, "Ah, so I guess I don't have to ask why you're now looking for new employment. Well, we don't find you qualified for spokesman, but we do have janitorial."
And if you go to Redbox three days a week, you're spending at LEAST $12 a month - and that's if you *never* return them late.
Well that makes sixty percent rate hike and 50% cut in services just fine doesn't it???
How is this a "50% cut in services"?
Mobile data plan? If I don't even have a landline, do you really think I have a fucking expensive mobile phone, with a data plan on top of that? Are you insane?
I HAVE NO TELEVISION AND NO PHONE. That's right, I can't even call 9-1-1 in case of an emergency.
oldstrat was right, I haven't eaten out in about two years. And when I did it was a BK, so about $6 for the whole thing. I wasn't eating $30 steaks to begin with.
And a note to VolciMaster... three bucks can pay for two whole meals. Think about that the next time you order a fucking $3 latte.
And yet you can post on /. ... so *HOW*, again, are you hurting?
Who the F thinks he eats out anywhere after canceling all those services? Do you have a clue? Three buck is meaning the difference to have or not for thousands more evert day and to them if you are spending $3 on a single serving of a beverage you are indeed a "rich prick". I suggest you expand your sheltered little circle.
I suppose it is the case for some people. But it certainly isn't for the folks I know working minimum wage (or slightly above): they all eat out, have cable, etc. And it's not for the people I know working at about the bottom rung (economically) of the professional ladder - teachers.
Why, because it's an extra $1?
As soon as you exceed your $8 in movie rental time/usage, you've spent more than you would have on Netflix.
Exactly ! It's about time that money's spent better, say in education
We already spend more on "education" than any country on the planet. Spending is NOT the issue.
I'm with you, why does Apple care about protecting users from malicious access!?
Maybe for the same reason every other vendor cares about protecting their uses from malicious access? They want their customers to continue being their customers?
What kind of moron will allow unhindered free wifi? It's brain dead easy to set up a filtering proxy. Hell Privoxy and Dans Guardian will do most of it for you easily. Install DDWRT on that linksys and enjoy even basic keyword filtering.
I even block all ports other than 80. you can use my free wifi but based on my rules and restrictions. That's the cool part about being educated on what you are doing.
Yeah, it is cool - if you're educated on what you are doing. But for those who are not, why is anyone surprised they are running wide open?
all we really need is maybe a metal detector, and on the other side, a couple of bomb sniffing dogs
Yep. That worked real well in 2001.
Except that until they rushed the doors, they had done nothing illegal.