But, but, but... if we get rid of pork barrel projects how will senators in powerful positions be able to keep their bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions coming in?!? Man, you REALLY don't understand American politics!
Do you think if NASA had a choice they would have stuck with the Shuttle? They were stuck with a 30 year old (flawed) design because it was the only option available.
Why? For the same reason the Apollo missions stopped getting news coverage. "MAN WALKS ON MOON!" followed by "Oh, we did it again", then "WOAH, START YOUR RUBBERNECKING, SOME DUDES ARE GONNA DIE", then "Oh, well they ALMOST died...", then "We're seriously going to try that again?", "...", ".." and "."
Once it's happened its no longer news unless its bleeding, burning or exploding (preferably two or more of those).
They both had a flaw that when their flash memory got too full a buffer overflow in the memory management software would reboot the machine. Spirit had been operating and collecting data first and thus encountered the problem before Opportunity ran into it too. The fix was to disable the flash memory from a safe mode so they could point the high gain antenna and send a fixed software version (once they figured out what was causing the problem). It really was a close call.
There was no landing foam. There were inflated bags that cushioned the impact as the lander bounced. The bags had cords attached to them that were retracted after landing to pull the deflated bags under the lander out of the way. The retraction didn't work 100%, and there was concern that the rover's wheels would get tangled up in the bags or the cords (which turned out not to happen).
The rover actually got stuck on mostly flat terrain. It was crossing some low wind swept dunes which the wheels eventually just dug into (think a car on the beach). By wiggling back and forth they were able to back out, and they added some movement rules for the auto drive that if a lot of slippage occurs the move stops so as not to dig so deep into loose sand.
Wrong. Mouse and keyboard will always smoke console controller in shooters. There is a reason they had to make Halo harder when they released it on PC.
You may know some people who can smoke an average keyboard and mouse player, but at the same skill level a controller hasn't got a chance.
The REAL FPS players don't bother with Halo because, well, it's a console game ported to PC (even though it was ORIGINALLY for PC until M$ bought out its dev company and forced it onto Xbox) Take your "uber-controller" players, set up Counterstrike or BF2 with a USB console type controller and they'll be getting smoked by 12 year old girls.
Instead of clinging to an outdated and broken distribution system by filing lawsuits against everything that moves, we burn the entire recording industry to the ground and start over with artists actually getting paid for their work.
Here's the deal: I have no problem paying ARTISTS for their work. I have a problem paying corporations who through lobbying and slimy lawyer tricks control the distribution chain for an artist's work. If
Car repair shouldn't be free, but the MECHANIC should get be the one getting paid. That's why I take my car to a locally owned shop (Frank's Auto Repair) where Frank gets my money instead of "Giant Corporate Auto Repair Inc." where they pay a mechanics $15/hour yet charge the customer $90/hour for labor on repairs. I want to see the WORKER get the money.
"Hey this is like in that movie with that guy. You know the one who plays the boxer? Yeah and he like yells his wife's name and stuff at the end of the fight. This is just like that."
Obviously you're not a programmer. The key hard part is image processing/sensor fusion. It's amazing how people take for granted their senses and how the process their environment. To write software to know where it is, where it wants to go and what is in between that interfaces with sensors that can reliably provide enough data to accomplish the task, that IS hard.
"more environmentally friendly"? At worst its a wash, and solar cells probably come out ahead, because of all the fun and tasty chemicals you find in disposable batteries. And rechargable batteries can only handle so many charge cycles, and they have even MORE fun chemicals in them.
It takes a STRONG magnetic field (not to mention an oscillating one) to damage a magnetic strip on a credit card. Think about this: What device that emits significant EM radiation will you find in most women's purses?
Answer: A cell phone. And yet somehow credit cards manage to survive.
Without a good controller, RAID 0 will actually slow down transfer rates. And by good controller I mean something other than the POS integrated into motherboards.
Unless you're working in the publishing industry, you'll have to admit that there is more than "a bit of skimming" in the "-->" between book publishers and authors, but that is beside the point.
As I've said, this service does NOT steal books or infringe copyright. It allows users to find books they are looking for so they can either check out at a library (where the books are paid for by tax dollars) or buy them.
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But, but, but... if we get rid of pork barrel projects how will senators in powerful positions be able to keep their bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions coming in?!? Man, you REALLY don't understand American politics!
If anyone is curious check out: Two Bridges Too Far
Basically, Ted Stevens is a putz.
Beagle was designed under the same flavor of philosophy as NASA's failed "Faster, Better, Cheaper" phase. The NASA engineer's joke was "Pick two."
Do you think if NASA had a choice they would have stuck with the Shuttle? They were stuck with a 30 year old (flawed) design because it was the only option available.
They're fusion powered! Well, indirectly anyway... :)
Why? For the same reason the Apollo missions stopped getting news coverage. "MAN WALKS ON MOON!" followed by "Oh, we did it again", then "WOAH, START YOUR RUBBERNECKING, SOME DUDES ARE GONNA DIE", then "Oh, well they ALMOST died...", then "We're seriously going to try that again?", "...", ".." and "."
Once it's happened its no longer news unless its bleeding, burning or exploding (preferably two or more of those).
They both had a flaw that when their flash memory got too full a buffer overflow in the memory management software would reboot the machine. Spirit had been operating and collecting data first and thus encountered the problem before Opportunity ran into it too. The fix was to disable the flash memory from a safe mode so they could point the high gain antenna and send a fixed software version (once they figured out what was causing the problem). It really was a close call.
There was no landing foam. There were inflated bags that cushioned the impact as the lander bounced. The bags had cords attached to them that were retracted after landing to pull the deflated bags under the lander out of the way. The retraction didn't work 100%, and there was concern that the rover's wheels would get tangled up in the bags or the cords (which turned out not to happen).
The rover actually got stuck on mostly flat terrain. It was crossing some low wind swept dunes which the wheels eventually just dug into (think a car on the beach). By wiggling back and forth they were able to back out, and they added some movement rules for the auto drive that if a lot of slippage occurs the move stops so as not to dig so deep into loose sand.
Wrong. Mouse and keyboard will always smoke console controller in shooters. There is a reason they had to make Halo harder when they released it on PC.
You may know some people who can smoke an average keyboard and mouse player, but at the same skill level a controller hasn't got a chance.
The REAL FPS players don't bother with Halo because, well, it's a console game ported to PC (even though it was ORIGINALLY for PC until M$ bought out its dev company and forced it onto Xbox) Take your "uber-controller" players, set up Counterstrike or BF2 with a USB console type controller and they'll be getting smoked by 12 year old girls.
While we're being pedantic, there is no "weight" in space. There is MASS in space though...
How about this for a compromise:
Instead of clinging to an outdated and broken distribution system by filing lawsuits against everything that moves, we burn the entire recording industry to the ground and start over with artists actually getting paid for their work.
Then we have lunch. I think that's fair.
Here's the deal: I have no problem paying ARTISTS for their work. I have a problem paying corporations who through lobbying and slimy lawyer tricks control the distribution chain for an artist's work. If
Car repair shouldn't be free, but the MECHANIC should get be the one getting paid. That's why I take my car to a locally owned shop (Frank's Auto Repair) where Frank gets my money instead of "Giant Corporate Auto Repair Inc." where they pay a mechanics $15/hour yet charge the customer $90/hour for labor on repairs. I want to see the WORKER get the money.
No, this is the worst Rocky reference ever:
"Hey this is like in that movie with that guy. You know the one who plays the boxer? Yeah and he like yells his wife's name and stuff at the end of the fight. This is just like that."
You're welcome.
Don't you have to be under oath to commit perjury?
You mean "../../../"? Yeah, thats like a crowbar and a ski mask if you ask me.
Nice argument, you tool. But digital copies of satellite radio's compressed audio is as bad (or worse) than an analog copy of an FM broadcast.
They don't want autonomous spy HMMWVs, they want autonomous 5 ton truck convoys to run supplies without worrying about casualties.
Obviously you're not a programmer. The key hard part is image processing/sensor fusion. It's amazing how people take for granted their senses and how the process their environment. To write software to know where it is, where it wants to go and what is in between that interfaces with sensors that can reliably provide enough data to accomplish the task, that IS hard.
"more environmentally friendly"? At worst its a wash, and solar cells probably come out ahead, because of all the fun and tasty chemicals you find in disposable batteries. And rechargable batteries can only handle so many charge cycles, and they have even MORE fun chemicals in them.
It takes a STRONG magnetic field (not to mention an oscillating one) to damage a magnetic strip on a credit card. Think about this: What device that emits significant EM radiation will you find in most women's purses?
Answer: A cell phone. And yet somehow credit cards manage to survive.
Wrong. Having the mail server kick out an error such as:
Error
The attachment you are attempting to send is larger than allowed.
Your attachment can be no larger than 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes). The attachment you attempted to send was 36,542,180 bytes.
Not only does it protect the mail server, it also educates the user without being "holier than thou".
Saying that the King of the Hill issue was noise smacks of B.S. That that is his opening salvo really weakens that article.
While they're at it can they get a hack made so I can use my Zen Sleek MP3 player with Linux? Or at least NOT WinXP?
Friggin DRM. Grumble grumble.
RAID-0 is not automatically faster than a single drive, especially with a crappy integrated RAID controller.
Without a good controller, RAID 0 will actually slow down transfer rates. And by good controller I mean something other than the POS integrated into motherboards.
... I can't even do it. I tried, I really did.
"book publishers [aka "Corporate America"] --> authors"
Unless you're working in the publishing industry, you'll have to admit that there is more than "a bit of skimming" in the "-->" between book publishers and authors, but that is beside the point.
As I've said, this service does NOT steal books or infringe copyright. It allows users to find books they are looking for so they can either check out at a library (where the books are paid for by tax dollars) or buy them.