As the owner of 6 Seagate HDDs, 3 of which are the ever-popular Barracuda 120GB models, I must say this is a fantastic bit of info. I was looking for s new Hard drive to replace the constantly-failing one in my Thinkpad, and, with my almost 15 years of Seagate drives, all of which are still working to full capacity, I think I've just found my drive.
I'm sure people were saying the same thing back in 1961 when Kennedy made his proposal, but look what happened.
I'll be perfectly honest, I haven't been following this very well outside of/. and the mainstream media, but from what I've heard, we're not as far off of this as you believe.
Apollo proved that, when the right minds get together with enough money, anything can be accomplished, even going outside of Earth orbit. It's time for the next step, and I think we have the technology, the people to put it together, and the astronauts to fly it, all we need is a public willing to put billions of dollars on the line to make it happen.
Do I think 2020 is a good, safe estimate? Yes. I'd love to see it by the end of the decade, and I think that, if we put enough energy into it, it could happen. But, unfortunately, there's no space race to push progress anymore, and so it won't happen in 5 years.
What we need is a competition, a few space-capable countries (luckily there's 4 (or is it 5?)) to group up with a common goal-to be the first country to land a man on Mars.
Do you know when we discovered the hole in the ozone layer? -When we developed the equipment to detect the ozone layer. Do you know what makes most of our ozone? -Trees, or other photosynthetic life. Now, what is the flora of Antarctica? -Nonexistent, at least in enough quantity to sustain a constant creation of ozone.
So, considering these facts, the hole in the ozone layer may have been there for centuries, millennia even, never causing any problems b/c the fauna there have all adapted to handle the UV rays, which are indirect to begin with. It has constantly fluctuated, sometimes getting bigger, sometimes getting smaller.
I use OpenOffice solely, the only Office program I use is Outlook, and as soon as I can find an open source version I like, it's gone.
But, my problem is that I'm not quite willing to give up Windows, since I'd not only have to teach myself (a lofty goal in itself, considering I'm the only Linux user in my region), I'd also have to teach my parents (since I'm just a poor geek like that) that MS is full of shit and that Linux is not "the work of the devil" (that is a direct quote). So, I still use Windows, but for the most part, just the interface (Firefox, OO.o, Trillian, etc.)
I still use Office's file formats, mostly because my university still uses Office in the library, and I never know when I'll need to use it, but I'm never going back to Office, esp. Powerpoint, which I think has gotten bloated and overproduced. The Presentation feature of OO.o is all the important features of Powerpoint, but without the pricetag (Office does run in the range of $300-600, depending on the level)
OO.o is a fantastic program, and Powerpoint shouldn't be used as an excuse, the open source alternative is just as good, but without the bloatedness and "dumbing-down", that has come along.
It's not "user friendliness", it's giving people an excuse to be lazy.
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Hrmm... Maybe they left for another purpose...
Thank god for execs and marketing departments that can make-and take-a joke.
As the owner of 6 Seagate HDDs, 3 of which are the ever-popular Barracuda 120GB models, I must say this is a fantastic bit of info. I was looking for s new Hard drive to replace the constantly-failing one in my Thinkpad, and, with my almost 15 years of Seagate drives, all of which are still working to full capacity, I think I've just found my drive.
I'm sure people were saying the same thing back in 1961 when Kennedy made his proposal, but look what happened.
/. and the mainstream media, but from what I've heard, we're not as far off of this as you believe.
I'll be perfectly honest, I haven't been following this very well outside of
Apollo proved that, when the right minds get together with enough money, anything can be accomplished, even going outside of Earth orbit. It's time for the next step, and I think we have the technology, the people to put it together, and the astronauts to fly it, all we need is a public willing to put billions of dollars on the line to make it happen.
Do I think 2020 is a good, safe estimate? Yes. I'd love to see it by the end of the decade, and I think that, if we put enough energy into it, it could happen. But, unfortunately, there's no space race to push progress anymore, and so it won't happen in 5 years.
What we need is a competition, a few space-capable countries (luckily there's 4 (or is it 5?)) to group up with a common goal-to be the first country to land a man on Mars.
Do you know when we discovered the hole in the ozone layer?
-When we developed the equipment to detect the ozone layer.
Do you know what makes most of our ozone?
-Trees, or other photosynthetic life.
Now, what is the flora of Antarctica?
-Nonexistent, at least in enough quantity to sustain a constant creation of ozone.
So, considering these facts, the hole in the ozone layer may have been there for centuries, millennia even, never causing any problems b/c the fauna there have all adapted to handle the UV rays, which are indirect to begin with. It has constantly fluctuated, sometimes getting bigger, sometimes getting smaller.
I use OpenOffice solely, the only Office program I use is Outlook, and as soon as I can find an open source version I like, it's gone.
But, my problem is that I'm not quite willing to give up Windows, since I'd not only have to teach myself (a lofty goal in itself, considering I'm the only Linux user in my region), I'd also have to teach my parents (since I'm just a poor geek like that) that MS is full of shit and that Linux is not "the work of the devil" (that is a direct quote). So, I still use Windows, but for the most part, just the interface (Firefox, OO.o, Trillian, etc.)
I still use Office's file formats, mostly because my university still uses Office in the library, and I never know when I'll need to use it, but I'm never going back to Office, esp. Powerpoint, which I think has gotten bloated and overproduced. The Presentation feature of OO.o is all the important features of Powerpoint, but without the pricetag (Office does run in the range of $300-600, depending on the level)
OO.o is a fantastic program, and Powerpoint shouldn't be used as an excuse, the open source alternative is just as good, but without the bloatedness and "dumbing-down", that has come along.
It's not "user friendliness", it's giving people an excuse to be lazy.