Re:Manned exploration is a stupid vanity project
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you are obviously a pedant and choose not to see what i'm saying.I'm talking about the allocation of funds. So the money is spread thinly to NASA employees who in turn use it for their personal gains. If the funds were allocated elsewhere such as putting robots there instead of humans - huge cost savings,maybe employ more workers in the process and discover new things. put the rest of the money to say...i don't know..better educational structures and incentives for children and other issues.
No goverment is a saint perhaps, but i reiterate: it'd be nice if this going to the moon wasn't about PR. You can't convince me-especially with the way they are going about it- this isn't a pie in the pie sky venture for the forseeable future. Next your gonna tell me you want to replace nature and billions of years of evolution, employ terraforming and colonize mars.
Re:Manned exploration is a stupid vanity project
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you ppl missed my point completely. No one said anything about abandoning the space initiative or forgoing advancement in technology and sciences. I simply said there are more cost effective ways to do so and to do so at a better time when certain variables are known and overcome.
as for the wars yes i'm talking about america, i'm not necessarily attacking the country i'm simply saying they are the "richest" and as such it would be ideal if they could have an administration that could allocate funds properly and for better initiatives than PR propaganda.
as for not advancing in sciences, don't be ridiculous the argument is relative to what i'm talking about, so if your saving human lives, then by all means go for it-and yes, you can save more lives on earth by allocating the space flight money to combatting global warming for example,but of course according to america there is no global warming - Not to mention i don't see the latest university or ph.d students getting billions in my money to do research in one tiny area of interest that tickles their fancy.
As for the money not going into space..AYAFI? where is the money going then, in my account? I won't even argue this if you don't see it.
Re:Manned exploration is a stupid vanity project
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After watching "exploring space: the quest for life" On pbs the other night. i have to agree with the above post. Technology is advancing at such a rapid and alarming pace, it wouldn't be difficult for us to come together and utilize our expertise in robotics and computing to send robots to space - collect data, study and prep it for human colonization or visits. In fact it would be less expensive, push us to learn more about computing and robotics, advance our technology and intelligence.
In the interim we could focus more on the problems at home. How about world hunger, idiotic wars and and advancement and encouragement of the sciences instead of the hollywood propaganda much of us in the "free world" are bombarded with.
I'm very proud of what NASA did in getting us to the moon - it showed us what could be achieved and the space wars fueled competition and encouraged the creation of the internet. But its time we implemenet common sense and stop bowing to the political pressures. The aricle is a hope at best of getting to the moon and establishing a base or colony there. there is way too much to overcome...Fuel problems for extending stays, making sure your astronauts stay in shape so the low gravity doesn't shrink their hearts and make them lose muscle mass and turn to jelly..the moon dust...the list goes on..
its sad that NASA is nothing more than a political puppet of this administration and its sad the US has such an idiot in office whose only concern is personal benefit and gain and not the greater good. While we worry about achieving science fiction we are destroying our atmosphere, starving our ppl to death and encouraging the lack luster education of our children so they can be an example to their kids..Maybe i'm getting too old, but i sometimes am glad i won't be around to see how mess up this only planet we have - in the end its just one world ppl and we need to take care of home first.
Obviously this is a bunch of crock which time will reveal soon enough. everyone knows the sudden appeareance of modern man is a direct result of the genetic engineering of the Annunkai some sevreal thousand years back.
unless they have the razr v3i which has airplane mode and enables you to use most of the features without and radio interference...so they say...i haven't tried it yet, but i will next week and i'll get back with a detailed summary of my experiences with it....yeah right!!
well as long as the boys keep them on their desks and not their laps. I know there called laptops but..."whats that burning smell...smells like burnt nuts!"
My first comp i was intro to was a apple, i remember using LOGO and that damn turtle. that was in 3rd grade. Then i was introduced to a trs-80 from tandy and radio shack that was when i learned basic, finally a couple years later my school got the new macintosh with the black and white gui, It wasn't until college that i actually saw a windows pc. oh good times. good stuff.
Re:It really is true...
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this.that.the.other.do.something()
ROTFLMAO. Dude you summed it up nice! this discussion doesn't even need to go on. whereas for example python allows you use OOP technics or not. done. Everyone should be on their last cup of JAVA right about now.
However I though the whole point of an MP3 player is to listen to the music you like, not what the DJ likes.
i used to think the same thing too until i came back from Oahu,hawaii from vacation just a couple days ago. EVERYWHERE i went everyone had ipods and a RAZR! everyone was lounging on the beach and kalkaua ave with them. I was stuck listenning to the local radio station fm 103.5 on a portable radio and i realised how great it would be if i had the creative M's built in FM tuner.
when you are a true music aficianado you usally listen to your music ALOT. i have over 10,000 songs sorted by year all the way from 1993 - not counting the cd's i haven't ripped yet - and i get tired of it caused i've listened to them so much. So visiting somewhere else it's cool to listen to local stations who might have a different vibe to them, not to mention getting local info on the parties and happenings - like zansa bar's parties on kuhio ave.
by the way I'd like the creative m to get a bigger hd cause i would be on it like white on rice. check out these comparisons between the M and the everybodyPOD.
that attitude is reflected a lot in quebec, canada as well as there is a strong european history here. the attitude is more: work to live, not live to work.
America's only addicted to the most recent advancements more than the rest of the world
you ppl always thing you live in a vacume *rolls eyes* tell your comment to ppl in korea where they are deploying cellphones faster than consumers could even want, a short range wireless systems that makes uwb look like dial up. tell that to ppl in africa when they use car batteries to charge their cell phones so they can call a the clients to come pick up their fresh fish of the day - as they take it from the ocean. most important tell it to japan who is LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF AMERICA!!!
jesus i don't want to be a troll but WAKEUP, its not all about you.
If the thing in question makes the person do questionable things, hurt themselves, or otherwise make it difficult for them to live a normal and happy life, then it is addiction
its still a relevant study. when anything is new and begins to make headway into society, its only natural ppl deconstruct,scruitinize and analize it. I'd imagine just after the first car was invented headlines probably read somthing like "are we getting too lazy" it happens, though i understand your point, history though is only smiling at us.
And of course if Google wanted to really screw with both Sun and Microsoft, especially Microsoft, they could create their own cross-platform web and gui toolkits and a free RAD GUI builder a la Visual Studio for Python. If they could create a Python framework on par with Swing or Windows Forms, there'd be quite a bit of wailing and gnashing of teeth in both camps
thanks thats an excellent suggestion.
--eric
Re:This doesn't mean they want to "control" Python
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now that would be really interesting to see. guido can give them the simplicity and exceptional design of python for robust RAD and the JAVA team can give them....uhhh...hold on let me think..
i have to agree. The U.S. has a 2 things going for it. its army and hollywood. with its amy it can plant pupet leaders and disrupt already content countries and with hollywood it sells "the american" dream. making foreigners want a piece of the american pie.
hollywood has a lot of money behind it and i'm sure a lot of senators in their pocket - if the world watches a lot of hollywood films i wouldn't be surprised to see this bill introduced in some forms in other countries.
sad really, i just hope we don't see their army being used to enforce hollywood's intentions.
I gotta admit as a big superman fan who hasn't missed an incarnation since christopher took up the cape, i'm really aprehensive about this movie....REALLY aprehensive..why couldn't they just get tom welling to play the dude...and why does routh's costume look so gay...C'mon!!
a little tidbit about TBL some companies in the news recently could learn from.
While the component ideas of the World Wide Web are simple, Berners-Lee's insight was to combine them in a way which is still exploring its full potential. Perhaps his greatest single contribution, though, was to make his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due.
...device running linux. Why oh why does linux have to run on everything including the kitchen sink? i was actually much more interested in what he had to say about.NET
wake me when you have minix running on the blackberry or the 700W.
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thats why i got out of journalism and went into law.
too busy making a living they forgot to make a life. amen brother.
that was nice! i liked that. i wasted all my mod points earliar but here's one if i did have them: +2 funny
can't believe you'd actually write that code on /. without the escape sequence, knowing that any serious C coder is a pedant. LOL.
Thats my new signature.
No goverment is a saint perhaps, but i reiterate: it'd be nice if this going to the moon wasn't about PR. You can't convince me-especially with the way they are going about it- this isn't a pie in the pie sky venture for the forseeable future. Next your gonna tell me you want to replace nature and billions of years of evolution, employ terraforming and colonize mars.
as for the wars yes i'm talking about america, i'm not necessarily attacking the country i'm simply saying they are the "richest" and as such it would be ideal if they could have an administration that could allocate funds properly and for better initiatives than PR propaganda.
as for not advancing in sciences, don't be ridiculous the argument is relative to what i'm talking about, so if your saving human lives, then by all means go for it-and yes, you can save more lives on earth by allocating the space flight money to combatting global warming for example,but of course according to america there is no global warming - Not to mention i don't see the latest university or ph.d students getting billions in my money to do research in one tiny area of interest that tickles their fancy.
As for the money not going into space..AYAFI? where is the money going then, in my account? I won't even argue this if you don't see it.In the interim we could focus more on the problems at home. How about world hunger, idiotic wars and and advancement and encouragement of the sciences instead of the hollywood propaganda much of us in the "free world" are bombarded with.
I'm very proud of what NASA did in getting us to the moon - it showed us what could be achieved and the space wars fueled competition and encouraged the creation of the internet. But its time we implemenet common sense and stop bowing to the political pressures. The aricle is a hope at best of getting to the moon and establishing a base or colony there. there is way too much to overcome...Fuel problems for extending stays, making sure your astronauts stay in shape so the low gravity doesn't shrink their hearts and make them lose muscle mass and turn to jelly..the moon dust...the list goes on.. its sad that NASA is nothing more than a political puppet of this administration and its sad the US has such an idiot in office whose only concern is personal benefit and gain and not the greater good. While we worry about achieving science fiction we are destroying our atmosphere, starving our ppl to death and encouraging the lack luster education of our children so they can be an example to their kids..Maybe i'm getting too old, but i sometimes am glad i won't be around to see how mess up this only planet we have - in the end its just one world ppl and we need to take care of home first.Obviously this is a bunch of crock which time will reveal soon enough. everyone knows the sudden appeareance of modern man is a direct result of the genetic engineering of the Annunkai some sevreal thousand years back.
unless they have the razr v3i which has airplane mode and enables you to use most of the features without and radio interference...so they say...i haven't tried it yet, but i will next week and i'll get back with a detailed summary of my experiences with it....yeah right!!
well as long as the boys keep them on their desks and not their laps. I know there called laptops but..."whats that burning smell...smells like burnt nuts!"
My first comp i was intro to was a apple, i remember using LOGO and that damn turtle. that was in 3rd grade. Then i was introduced to a trs-80 from tandy and radio shack that was when i learned basic, finally a couple years later my school got the new macintosh with the black and white gui, It wasn't until college that i actually saw a windows pc. oh good times. good stuff.
i used to think the same thing too until i came back from Oahu,hawaii from vacation just a couple days ago. EVERYWHERE i went everyone had ipods and a RAZR! everyone was lounging on the beach and kalkaua ave with them. I was stuck listenning to the local radio station fm 103.5 on a portable radio and i realised how great it would be if i had the creative M's built in FM tuner.
when you are a true music aficianado you usally listen to your music ALOT. i have over 10,000 songs sorted by year all the way from 1993 - not counting the cd's i haven't ripped yet - and i get tired of it caused i've listened to them so much. So visiting somewhere else it's cool to listen to local stations who might have a different vibe to them, not to mention getting local info on the parties and happenings - like zansa bar's parties on kuhio ave. by the way I'd like the creative m to get a bigger hd cause i would be on it like white on rice. check out these comparisons between the M and the everybodyPOD.
that attitude is reflected a lot in quebec, canada as well as there is a strong european history here. the attitude is more: work to live, not live to work.
its still a relevant study. when anything is new and begins to make headway into society, its only natural ppl deconstruct,scruitinize and analize it. I'd imagine just after the first car was invented headlines probably read somthing like "are we getting too lazy" it happens, though i understand your point, history though is only smiling at us.
thanks thats an excellent suggestion. --eric
now that would be really interesting to see. guido can give them the simplicity and exceptional design of python for robust RAD and the JAVA team can give them....uhhh...hold on let me think..
hollywood has a lot of money behind it and i'm sure a lot of senators in their pocket - if the world watches a lot of hollywood films i wouldn't be surprised to see this bill introduced in some forms in other countries.
sad really, i just hope we don't see their army being used to enforce hollywood's intentions.I gotta admit as a big superman fan who hasn't missed an incarnation since christopher took up the cape, i'm really aprehensive about this movie....REALLY aprehensive..why couldn't they just get tom welling to play the dude...and why does routh's costume look so gay...C'mon!!
While the component ideas of the World Wide Web are simple, Berners-Lee's insight was to combine them in a way which is still exploring its full potential. Perhaps his greatest single contribution, though, was to make his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due.
...device running linux. Why oh why does linux have to run on everything including the kitchen sink? i was actually much more interested in what he had to say about .NET
wake me when you have minix running on the blackberry or the 700W.