Once apon a time mandkind recorded voice onto steel tapes. They last as long as the steel itself. Now the put in onto plastic.
Steel tapes aka Windows 1.0
LP aka Windows 3.0
Platic ferro tapes aka Windows 3.11
Floppy aka Windows 95 (but better gui, but so crashable)
CD aka Windows 98
Super Qaulity CD aka M$$$$$ millenium
DVD aka Windows 2000/XP
Bluray/HD-DVD aka Yms.. Yet another Microsoft Windows.
See the table above. The leap forward in most case meant changing the physical material on which to store data. Now better DVD is nice, but does'nt yell that big advantages. If the world would need a new format, why not just kill this format and make a id-card sized 50 GB flash or harddisk
instead of dvd's.
Think about what would happen if went you and bought a new moive, and onces watched, you'd delete it and use it for general data storage. No more storage exhaustion. That's _recycling_.
For those that feels the shuttles must go... get a grip, and wake up to reality.
First of all, use a hour or two to estimate the ammount of $ spend in the army versus $ spend in Nasa. Then you'll properly wakeup. Nasa budget is peanuts. So if money is your concern, vote for cuting the army budget instead. And btw look at this estimate for 1999, then stop complaining : http://www.richardb.us/nasa.html.
If you main concern is the risk, take a break and walk around in your neighborhood, but be carefull that you don't get run over by a car, get smashed by a crashing dc-3 plane, or shoot in a drug related shootout. Remeber that it's not you who has to take the risk of flying the shuttle. If up to the astronauts is they are prepared to fly that old rusty thing or not. Nasa knowns there's a risk, everyone knowns there is risk.
But there so must more to learn about space fight. Just take a look at all the different solution for problem that Nasa have had to face these days because of the last shuttle disaster. In terms of solving problems on the run, while in space, Nasa still a rookie. Building another and newer shuttle won't solve that problem. You need to crawl before you can walk. Stopping now and building a new fleet would properly would give rise (sooner or later) to the problems Nasa is facing now.
Then there is the issue about the $'s. If Nasa retires the fleet, then those who like'd to get Nasa budget down, has a good position. This would also mean that the Russians and Europeans would have to complete the ISS alone, which won't happen. An incomplete ISS is by all means a huge failure. No body like bigs failure, then dream of the current president is goto back to the moon. The shuttle fleet is Nasa only fleet. No shuttles no fleet. No bananas no food. If Nasa was to cut expenses, then I'd like the US to cooperate more with the European and get them to pay more. I would'nt mind pay abit more even though I'm paying more that an US citizen.
Making an new dream apon a disaster, when the old one still aint completed is a cruel way keep pressing Nasa to the extreme. That's the problem, not the risk nor the money.
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Sounds to me like Apple started hiring people from SCO.
Never ever ask, just shoot.
Once apon a time mandkind recorded voice onto steel tapes. They last as long as the steel
.. Yet another Microsoft Windows.
itself. Now the put in onto plastic.
Steel tapes aka Windows 1.0
LP aka Windows 3.0
Platic ferro tapes aka Windows 3.11
Floppy aka Windows 95 (but better gui, but so crashable)
CD aka Windows 98
Super Qaulity CD aka M$$$$$ millenium
DVD aka Windows 2000/XP
Bluray/HD-DVD aka Yms
See the table above. The leap forward in most case meant changing the physical material on
which to store data. Now better DVD is nice, but does'nt yell that big advantages. If the world
would need a new format, why not just kill this format and make a id-card sized 50 GB flash or harddisk
instead of dvd's.
Think about what would happen if went you and bought a new moive, and onces watched,
you'd delete it and use it for general data storage. No more storage exhaustion. That's _recycling_.
Viva le necleration ?
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For those that feels the shuttles must go ... get a grip, and wake up to reality.
First of all, use a hour or two to estimate the ammount of $ spend in the army versus $ spend in Nasa. Then you'll properly wakeup. Nasa budget is peanuts. So if money is your concern, vote for cuting the army budget instead. And btw look at this estimate for 1999, then stop complaining : http://www.richardb.us/nasa.html.
If you main concern is the risk, take a break and walk around in your neighborhood, but be carefull that you don't get run over by a car, get smashed by a crashing dc-3 plane, or shoot in a drug related shootout. Remeber that it's not you who has to take the risk of flying the shuttle. If up to the astronauts is they are prepared to fly that old rusty thing or not. Nasa knowns there's a risk, everyone knowns there is risk.
But there so must more to learn about space fight. Just take a look at all the different solution for problem that Nasa have had to face these days because of the last shuttle disaster. In terms of solving problems on the run, while in space, Nasa still a rookie. Building another and newer shuttle won't solve that problem. You need to crawl before you can walk. Stopping now and building a new fleet would properly would give rise (sooner or later) to the problems Nasa is facing now.
Then there is the issue about the $'s. If Nasa retires the fleet, then those who like'd to get Nasa budget down, has a good position. This would also mean that the Russians and Europeans would have to complete the ISS alone, which won't happen. An incomplete ISS is by all means a huge failure. No body like bigs failure, then dream of the current president is goto back to the moon. The shuttle fleet is Nasa only fleet. No shuttles no fleet. No bananas no food. If Nasa was to cut expenses, then I'd like the US to cooperate more with the European and get them to pay more. I would'nt mind pay abit more even though I'm paying more that an US citizen.
Making an new dream apon a disaster, when the old one still aint completed is a cruel way keep pressing Nasa to the extreme. That's the problem, not the risk nor the money.
Nothing has really happend this Win2k, except from people ...
complaining about their color vision when logging off xp
Microsoft need to layoff people and start to get off the idea
of introducing a new os every year,and start extending their OS support.