Then fix the problem by addressing the issue directly, not waiting. Perhaps Wiki is not a good idea to represent a serious effort? Perhaps something over on Sourceforge, or even a static web page would better represent your effort.
Your efforts in the development of a new windowing system may be groundbreaking -- good for you. X is rather stale. Unfortunately as you are learning right now breaking ground and having your development site totally open to the revision of passers-by may not be a good idea,/. or not.
If the Internet has proven anything it has proven that if someone can be an ass and get away with it, chances are good they will be. This has happened since/. covered your site -- but it would have happened sooner or later. Anticipate someone pissing in your Cheerios, that's the way life works. The trick is planning around it.
Your fix must have lasted for a whole moment. I honestly believe you made the effort, but the page is doing it again. I suggest you restrict access to your web site's html if the contributors are going to pull stunts like this.
Not that it means much, but you lost at least one desktop with this. You'll never be on mine.
I don't give a damn if it's the best damned windowing system on the planet, if it's managed by people who consider a fork bomb an appropriate part of a development site I want nothing to do with them.:)
But for what it's worth I would not consider Berlin as any serious competition to X as long as they include hostile code in one of their pages that tries to crash a visitor's browser.
Yah I saw that too.:) I wonder though if that's not maybe too much computer for the purposes I would have for it? Browsing from bed, maybe from the kitchen table with AM coffee doesn't take Win 2k.
Although imagine a presentation on one, and it's, what, USD $900 more? And who ever said "all I need is enough computing power, not one tiny bit more." It does walk all over a Palm, doesn't it? My oh my.:)
Someone from NASA should call Rick Berman. He seems to know how to do it. You'll note that we almost never see people floating about on any Star Trek show.
Those folks at Paramount really know what they're doing...
One of the biggest reasons many of these things bombed is that you had to subscribe to a proprietary service to use them. You can't bring your own ISP, you have to use MSN, AOL, etc. Subscribing to an additional service is no big deal if you live in an area with local dialup for that service, but in rural communities like mine even AOL and WebTV are long distance so at best you have to pay ISP charges, then an additional amount to use the service packaged with the device. At worst, you pay long distance for the privilege of getting email on the thing.
The people who would actually consider buying something like this probably want a bit more versatility. I desperately want a web appliance I can take around my apartment with me, but I want it to be configurable for my own internet service.
GW's solving winter heating problems by doing exactly what my mother (and maybe yours) used to admonish us when we would hold the door open in the winter...
"What are you trying to do, heat the outdoors?"
Little did Barbara Bush know that when she was scolding eight year old Georgie it would come back to haunt us all forty years later.:)
I see something silverish, wibbling back and forth against a black sky full of sharp white stars. It is not ejecting mass. It has no surfaces to catch the solar wind. It has nothing to move against. Its crew is getting violently ill from side to side motion.
Exactly how is this thing supposed to do anything besides wiggle?
The next time you hear those words bring a rechargable shaver, a toothbrush, toiletries, a sleeping bag, and a charger for your cell phone. It sounds like you had to learn the hard way that "about five minutes" is geekspeak for "let's take a sail on the S.S. Minnow.":)
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What makes zero g medical studies different from one station to another are the adaptation techniques, exercizes, etc. Krikalev has an endurance record, but how useful was he afterwards?
In the near future we will be asking a crew to spend two or three hundred days in weightlessness and then function in planetary gravity for a several months with no extensive ground facility available to rehabilitate them -- they'll have to arrive at Mars with most of their stamina and strength intact.
Wasn't Krikalev was taken out of his reentry capsule on a stretcher?
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You're right, submariners make a LOT more sense. They're already accomodated to living in tight quarters with other people and having very limited space for months on end. In addition their disaster training is somewhat similar to what the astronauts go through. Leak = very bad news.
Every second the ISS is manned is research on the long-term effects of exposure to weightlessness and radiation on human subjects.
I'd say this is pretty damned valuable if you expect someone to spend 600 days hurling through space in a tin can under the same conditions. Some of the most valuable research on the station is conducted on its inhabitants, not by them.
Tito is an armchair astronaut at best -- five days in space no more qualifies him to judge the space program than weekend touch football qualifies the average schmuck to coach an NFL team. For being an ex-rocket scientist he seems rather dense.
Treasure your snapshots, Dennis, and bore your friends with your home movies. I am sorry you did not get an "I went to the ISS and all I got was this crappy t-shirt" shirt, but the final design is still under negotiation between Energia, ESA, and NASA for future tourist missions, and the astronauts have not finished rehearsing their musical floorshow. This is the price you pay for being first.
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That got it. I'll read the site once I get calmed down.
Jesus God I need to get a hobby.
Then fix the problem by addressing the issue directly, not waiting. Perhaps Wiki is not a good idea to represent a serious effort? Perhaps something over on Sourceforge, or even a static web page would better represent your effort.
/. or not.
/. covered your site -- but it would have happened sooner or later. Anticipate someone pissing in your Cheerios, that's the way life works. The trick is planning around it.
Your efforts in the development of a new windowing system may be groundbreaking -- good for you. X is rather stale. Unfortunately as you are learning right now breaking ground and having your development site totally open to the revision of passers-by may not be a good idea,
If the Internet has proven anything it has proven that if someone can be an ass and get away with it, chances are good they will be. This has happened since
Your fix must have lasted for a whole moment. I honestly believe you made the effort, but the page is doing it again. I suggest you restrict access to your web site's html if the contributors are going to pull stunts like this.
Not that it means much, but you lost at least one desktop with this. You'll never be on mine.
If that's the kind of shit they'll pull (on their promotional site, even) to prove a point, their code won't find its way onto any of my machines. :)
:)
If they suddenly develop angst against an OS we could maybe end up with fun little anti-BSD or anti-*nix bombs? This doesn't really inspire my trust.
Yes, I'm pissed off.
I reviewed it in Mozilla just to see if I could find an abuse@ email ...
You should experience the fork bomb ... Even more pathetic.
I don't give a damn if it's the best damned windowing system on the planet, if it's managed by people who consider a fork bomb an appropriate part of a development site I want nothing to do with them. :)
But for what it's worth I would not consider Berlin as any serious competition to X as long as they include hostile code in one of their pages that tries to crash a visitor's browser.
n /BerlinVsX.htm. I think that's the point.
The following link attempts to crash Internet Explorer. http://www2.berlin-consortium.org/wiki/html/Berli
Infantile pranks are not the hallmark of a serious project.
Yah I saw that too. :) I wonder though if that's not maybe too much computer for the purposes I would have for it? Browsing from bed, maybe from the kitchen table with AM coffee doesn't take Win 2k.
:)
Although imagine a presentation on one, and it's, what, USD $900 more? And who ever said "all I need is enough computing power, not one tiny bit more." It does walk all over a Palm, doesn't it? My oh my.
Someone from NASA should call Rick Berman. He seems to know how to do it. You'll note that we almost never see people floating about on any Star Trek show.
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Those folks at Paramount really know what they're doing
Hell I get all sortsa things when I see something I want. :P
One of the biggest reasons many of these things bombed is that you had to subscribe to a proprietary service to use them. You can't bring your own ISP, you have to use MSN, AOL, etc. Subscribing to an additional service is no big deal if you live in an area with local dialup for that service, but in rural communities like mine even AOL and WebTV are long distance so at best you have to pay ISP charges, then an additional amount to use the service packaged with the device. At worst, you pay long distance for the privilege of getting email on the thing.
The people who would actually consider buying something like this probably want a bit more versatility. I desperately want a web appliance I can take around my apartment with me, but I want it to be configurable for my own internet service.
As I said in another comment, so far ViewSonic seems to have the closest thing to what I am looking for: http://www.viewsonic.com/products/viewpad100.cfm.
ViewSonic is releasing the ViewPad 100. Personally, this one makes me kinda moist, although I really want more than a PDA ...
All the way from the beginning to the end -- even the credits.
... :)
It's definitely cold somewhere
Little did Barbara Bush know that when she was scolding eight year old Georgie it would come back to haunt us all forty years later.
NASA's air-breathing design is new, but Timberwind, established by SDI, has been around since the mid eighties.
As I recall one of the primary difficulties with Timberwind was keeping your payload from being reduce to rubble during launch. It is very powerful.
Note that test engines were built, and fired.
I see something silverish, wibbling back and forth against a black sky full of sharp white stars. It is not ejecting mass. It has no surfaces to catch the solar wind. It has nothing to move against. Its crew is getting violently ill from side to side motion.
Exactly how is this thing supposed to do anything besides wiggle?
I recall Hughes Satellite salvaging a communications satellite using minor engine burns and a slingshot around the moon to move a failed launch into a useful geosyncrhonous orbit. Is this what the article's author(s) are talking about?
The next time you hear those words bring a rechargable shaver, a toothbrush, toiletries, a sleeping bag, and a charger for your cell phone. It sounds like you had to learn the hard way that "about five minutes" is geekspeak for "let's take a sail on the S.S. Minnow." :)
This is not too far of a stretch:
AMDZone recently published an article by Van Smith that discussed the buyout of tech sites by commercial interests.
Mir, yah that rings a bell I think. %)
What makes zero g medical studies different from one station to another are the adaptation techniques, exercizes, etc. Krikalev has an endurance record, but how useful was he afterwards?
In the near future we will be asking a crew to spend two or three hundred days in weightlessness and then function in planetary gravity for a several months with no extensive ground facility available to rehabilitate them -- they'll have to arrive at Mars with most of their stamina and strength intact.
Wasn't Krikalev was taken out of his reentry capsule on a stretcher?
On February 25th Michael posted a story about building do-it-yourself X-ray units for hours of family enjoyment.
/. does shape our world.
Now we have a radioactive neighborhood in smalltown Michigan.
God have mercy on us all.
but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
-Dennis Tito
You're right, submariners make a LOT more sense. They're already accomodated to living in tight quarters with other people and having very limited space for months on end. In addition their disaster training is somewhat similar to what the astronauts go through. Leak = very bad news.
Good point.
Every second the ISS is manned is research on the long-term effects of exposure to weightlessness and radiation on human subjects.
I'd say this is pretty damned valuable if you expect someone to spend 600 days hurling through space in a tin can under the same conditions. Some of the most valuable research on the station is conducted on its inhabitants, not by them.
Tito is an armchair astronaut at best -- five days in space no more qualifies him to judge the space program than weekend touch football qualifies the average schmuck to coach an NFL team. For being an ex-rocket scientist he seems rather dense.
Treasure your snapshots, Dennis, and bore your friends with your home movies. I am sorry you did not get an "I went to the ISS and all I got was this crappy t-shirt" shirt, but the final design is still under negotiation between Energia, ESA, and NASA for future tourist missions, and the astronauts have not finished rehearsing their musical floorshow. This is the price you pay for being first.
Heh, one other thing -- you make good points. Thank you. :)