Why is anand78 not modded troll as an American would be? Eat crows? Grow on snow? Try visiting the mid-west. BTW we have fed the world for the last 50 years. You're welcome.
HA! I've seen British homes, row houses. I've eaten in China (not Chinese take out you call Chinese food), and in GB and France and Cananda (good squid in Toronto)! And American steaks are beyond slightly better! The only thing the rest of the world has that Americans don't are Japanese wives and better culture/education.
I'll take American homes, beef, and salary any day of the week and twice on Monday.
England have black bears that weigh 150lbs roaming near your house at night? England have racoons that stand to your waist on their hind legs with claws that can rip human flesh? I didn't think so. go back to your tea and biscuits. Life in the "new world" is slightly different. England have skunks roaming all night over your property all summer, with no natural predator ? Try cleaning a cat or dog who has been sprayed by a skunk.
Also, letting your cat hunt mice and birds is a great way to spread rabies and give the cat worms. Yeah, you may have a few that live to 18, but that is not the norm.
Instead of getting Win32 apps to work, how about wireless netword cards? Half or more out there won't work with linux. As soon as they do, I'll jump from windoze, but until they get hardware device drivers 99.9% working/compatible, its hard to complain that home users aren't using it.
FYI I'm refering to Debian and my D-Link DWL-520 D1 wirless card. A and B's work, but not reveisions after that. I know, the vendor is closing the source to the chipset, but hey..windows got it ?
OK I'll bite:
I don't really understand where this so called "scientists" get their mad ideas from... Moral issues aside, just in case you'd like to try, do you realize how much gas would you need? Well a lot. That means:
1) collecting, transporting, releasing the gas into martian atmosphere would take an incredible amount of energy. It should be debated if such energy is at our own disposal in the first place. Keep in mind: taking the gas from one planet (as we don't have nebuale in here;) ) means defeating the planet own gravity field, then there's the trip and there's the release... mmmh... But let's go to number two
Huh? we need transport nothing but pieces for small factories that convert CO2 (98% of the existing martian atomosphere) into oxygen. They have developed a machine to do this already. RTFM
2) One of the reasons mars has lost most of its atmosphere is that it hasn't got enough gravity pull to withstand solar wind. Atmosphere gets (slowly that's for sure) drained away every minute. So you don't want all of your work to go wasted in space do you?
Yes, losing an atmosphere to solar wind takes billions of years. We can continue to manipulate if we are there that long.
3) last but not least. Where to take the "gas"... I really hope you're not talking earth right? We already did a lot of bad things to this planet, taking away it's atmosphere is just the worst of many bad ideas. And to those thinking "hey we'll just take pollution away" let me remind you that we're talking about phisical matter. transporting mass to one object to the other.. What would that do to our planet? less gravity pull?
Anyway, why am I talking about this? it's pure nonsense. Not even science fiction.
Again see answer to stupid post #1. Also trying readin articles for a change. Did you think they would build a big plastic bag with a bunch of oxygen in it and move it to Mars? My God. Did you goto school?
", it will rank among the coolest engineering achievements in history."
In a word, no. Russia put probes on Venus (mush harsher env than titan) in 1967. Read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
The US has launched numerous deep solar space missions in the past. And landed 3 rovers on the surface of Mars, 2 at the same time, all of which worked.
I will (hopefully) find the pictures from this ESA probe of Titan fascinating, but other than its color cameras, its a 1960's probe. Basically, a turd dropped from Cassini, with a heat shield (60's) and interferometers (70's) and thingies than check wind speed. Oh and parachutes. Whoopie!
Some kid in high school had a tour of the place, so he knows everything!
NASA owns the Jet labs. They fall under their (NASA's ) budget. Hence why its referred to as NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs.
Read:
http://www.space.com/news/jpl_budget_806.html
"JPL, which coordinates missions to Mars, Jupiter and the Sun, is the leading U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system. One of NASA's highly prized centers, JPL relies heavily on the agency's funding. JPL is an unusual arm of NASA's space science centers because, although the center's property is federally owned, much of the lab's workforce is employed by the California Institute for Technology, which manages the center."
This is an ESA probe! NASA already had success with Cassini! NASA already had success with Mars! If this probe fails it was built and monitored by the ESA NOT NASA! RTFA!
Also, for those who say Pluto is not a planet, just some "left over rocks/dust/gas from solar system formation, in orbit". What do you think planets are? Other than left over rocks/dust/gas from solar system formation, in orbit ?
If NASA did this, most/.ers would be "up in arms" !
But since the space agency from the Evil Empire didn't have anything go wrong with its portion of Cassini mission, what can you complain about?
As the ESA, Japanese and Russians perform more and more deep space missions, and some of them fail, how will all of you blame NASA/Microsoft/RIAA/USA ?
For those of you who aren't familiar with IT lingo, Beta means not ready for mass consumption. Your trying our a new food or drug product. It may had adverse effects on you, including death.
Get over yourselves already. Gmail is a great client, it will have flaws, but I'm sure Google will fix them.
To critique Google, they should have some method for anonymously submitting security defects/flaws. Or non-anonymous for you attention whores.
Sorry for the run on sentence, not-intended to be flamebait but...
When linux works with all of the hardware out there as easily as XP Pro does (usb mice and crap etc), without having to spend 1 week combing thru newsgroups and old posts on various websites to figure how which file to modify with what value etc, then I'll switch permantly.
Also I use XP Pro for gaming occasionally. Linux lacks good games.
For me its America's Army. I'm watching the nightly news of Marines clearing houses in Fallujah and thinking to myself "Why don't they RPG that house first, then throw in flash bangs and frag nades before kicking that door in?"
If you read the article they are 99.1% sure its a planet. In a few months they will be 99% sure or not sure at all after this planet, with its very large orbit, has time to move (so they can monitor and pinpoint its orbit).
So you'll be happy in a few months or just miserable like you are now.
Easy solution if your router is far away from the puter. Plug it into an X10 module, hit the remote or use home control software, and presto you never have to leave the PC!
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Why is anand78 not modded troll as an American would be? Eat crows? Grow on snow? Try visiting the mid-west. BTW we have fed the world for the last 50 years. You're welcome.
I'll take American homes, beef, and salary any day of the week and twice on Monday.
Manufacturing garments doesn't produce much emissions. Making energy does (cars, power plants etc). This is China's fault, not US.
Also, letting your cat hunt mice and birds is a great way to spread rabies and give the cat worms. Yeah, you may have a few that live to 18, but that is not the norm.
Instead of getting Win32 apps to work, how about wireless netword cards? Half or more out there won't work with linux. As soon as they do, I'll jump from windoze, but until they get hardware device drivers 99.9% working/compatible, its hard to complain that home users aren't using it. FYI I'm refering to Debian and my D-Link DWL-520 D1 wirless card. A and B's work, but not reveisions after that. I know, the vendor is closing the source to the chipset, but hey..windows got it ?
In Soviet Russia, Patents patent you!
1. Patent everything
2. ??
3. ??
4. Profit!
OK I'll bite: I don't really understand where this so called "scientists" get their mad ideas from... Moral issues aside, just in case you'd like to try, do you realize how much gas would you need? Well a lot. That means: 1) collecting, transporting, releasing the gas into martian atmosphere would take an incredible amount of energy. It should be debated if such energy is at our own disposal in the first place. Keep in mind: taking the gas from one planet (as we don't have nebuale in here ;) ) means defeating the planet own gravity field, then there's the trip and there's the release... mmmh... But let's go to number two
Huh? we need transport nothing but pieces for small factories that convert CO2 (98% of the existing martian atomosphere) into oxygen. They have developed a machine to do this already. RTFM
2) One of the reasons mars has lost most of its atmosphere is that it hasn't got enough gravity pull to withstand solar wind. Atmosphere gets (slowly that's for sure) drained away every minute. So you don't want all of your work to go wasted in space do you?
Yes, losing an atmosphere to solar wind takes billions of years. We can continue to manipulate if we are there that long.
3) last but not least. Where to take the "gas"... I really hope you're not talking earth right? We already did a lot of bad things to this planet, taking away it's atmosphere is just the worst of many bad ideas. And to those thinking "hey we'll just take pollution away" let me remind you that we're talking about phisical matter. transporting mass to one object to the other.. What would that do to our planet? less gravity pull?
Anyway, why am I talking about this? it's pure nonsense. Not even science fiction.
Again see answer to stupid post #1. Also trying readin articles for a change. Did you think they would build a big plastic bag with a bunch of oxygen in it and move it to Mars? My God. Did you goto school?
98% of the martian atmosphere is already CO2, why ship it?
Am I missing something?
In a word, no. Russia put probes on Venus (mush harsher env than titan) in 1967. Read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
The US has launched numerous deep solar space missions in the past. And landed 3 rovers on the surface of Mars, 2 at the same time, all of which worked.
I will (hopefully) find the pictures from this ESA probe of Titan fascinating, but other than its color cameras, its a 1960's probe. Basically, a turd dropped from Cassini, with a heat shield (60's) and interferometers (70's) and thingies than check wind speed. Oh and parachutes. Whoopie!
Apparently you didn't see the manned repair of the Hubble. Not interesting?
NASA owns the Jet labs. They fall under their (NASA's ) budget. Hence why its referred to as NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs.
Read:
http://www.space.com/news/jpl_budget_806.html
"JPL, which coordinates missions to Mars, Jupiter and the Sun, is the leading U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system. One of NASA's highly prized centers, JPL relies heavily on the agency's funding. JPL is an unusual arm of NASA's space science centers because, although the center's property is federally owned, much of the lab's workforce is employed by the California Institute for Technology, which manages the center."
This is an ESA probe! NASA already had success with Cassini! NASA already had success with Mars! If this probe fails it was built and monitored by the ESA NOT NASA! RTFA!
Also, for those who say Pluto is not a planet, just some "left over rocks/dust/gas from solar system formation, in orbit". What do you think planets are? Other than left over rocks/dust/gas from solar system formation, in orbit ?
But since the space agency from the Evil Empire didn't have anything go wrong with its portion of Cassini mission, what can you complain about?
As the ESA, Japanese and Russians perform more and more deep space missions, and some of them fail, how will all of you blame NASA/Microsoft/RIAA/USA ?
Tough times ahead indeed for all of you!
Uh, The probe was built by the ESA. Nasa built Cassini.
Not really. My guess is that the only people using fingerprint scanning handhelds will have halitosis anyway.
1. I hope AC above me is joking
2. Who cares about handhelds? Other than toys, do they really serve a purpose? Does anyone really use one and not a laptop instead?
I'd guess the Tsunami funds that have been pledged but not surfaced yet!
Maybe something we could blame on America ?
WMD's ?!?
A one paragraph letter titled French Military Victories ?
Only time will tell!
For those of you who aren't familiar with IT lingo, Beta means not ready for mass consumption. Your trying our a new food or drug product. It may had adverse effects on you, including death.
Get over yourselves already. Gmail is a great client, it will have flaws, but I'm sure Google will fix them.
To critique Google, they should have some method for anonymously submitting security defects/flaws. Or non-anonymous for you attention whores.
When linux works with all of the hardware out there as easily as XP Pro does (usb mice and crap etc), without having to spend 1 week combing thru newsgroups and old posts on various websites to figure how which file to modify with what value etc, then I'll switch permantly.
Also I use XP Pro for gaming occasionally. Linux lacks good games.
I know thats bad.
So you'll be happy in a few months or just miserable like you are now.
Easy solution if your router is far away from the puter. Plug it into an X10 module, hit the remote or use home control software, and presto you never have to leave the PC!