While I'm not a physicist, astro-physicist, astronomer, or have any real knowledge in the field (hey, if I'm wrong, at least I admit and accept it) - I remember reading somewhere that for low level radiation, things like certain types of clay can stop such low level radiation. Am I the only one thinking NASA wants to use the lunar dirt for at least partial shielding of a base?
Also, a base being slightly set below ground level, and even better covered by dirt, would decrease the tempurature (IIRC, this is one of the basic reasons for doing so with home-building in deserts here on Earth)...
Aside from the serious stuff, I think NASA just wants to be able to say "All your base are belong to us!" before anybody else gets a lunar base.
Which this "external connector" would likely be connected to a solar plant. You can only launch such a big solar panel on one rocket, and even if they intend on having a large scale farm of solar panels, they would likely only launch a small plant at first, which is the most these 'bots can count on until further notice...
My reasoning for this lowest common denominator of power source is that Congress hates NASA enough as is. They don't have the patience to wait for NASA to get a large scale power plant on the moon, they want work getting done 5 years ago with funding yet to come 5 years in the future...
Because the word "lunar" in the "lunar regolith" implies that its on the moon - you know, 1/3 gravity. I would expect it would only fling dirt into space. My guess is that they want to do something with this dirt, like pile it up - hence they would want to keep it on the ground.
Perhaps in a couple of decades, when the holistic neural interface(TM) is commonplace, it'll be us "techno-savvy" yesterday's-(wo)men that people will be laughing and pointing fingers at, Nelson-like.
I see the opposite happening. Right now when one of us geeks has to fix a tech problem for somebody, we're considered a guru. When the rest of the world doesn't know how to walk on their own two feet without their "holistic neural interfaces" an we're the only ones that don't need a Cray to replace our brains just to find out that 2+2=4, we'll go from being guru's straight on up to Buddha...
Oh, no, Microsoft indeed has a cult - it's called/.... It's just that instead of a cult that blindly likes what they do, we here at the nation of/. hate Microsoft...
Note: For those that can't spot a joke, it's simply that we see a lot of anti-MS thoughts on here...
Hell, even if they have a different repo for Dell machines - you would still be able to add the regular Ubuntu repo(s) to your../apt/sources.list, right? While the average joe wouldn't know how to do this, its not particularly hard either...
While I'm not the expert you asked for, I'd say because as Congress is in every generation (Congress isn't to be confused with a presidential party) - stingy on the purse strings. They were reluctant as hell to approve funding on the mission(s) to repair the Hubble - thats *repair* not send up another, which I would assume would be cheaper. So if it was a miracle to get a repair mission authorized, why would they approve even more money to send 2 up when they would be just as fine with letting the Hubble die and not send up any kind of replacement, next-gen 'scope or using technology older than the Hubble...
I'm not really into Solaris, and only scratching the surface on Linux, but when I was looking at Solaris to see what it was about, I thought they said OpenSolaris 10 uses the "Java DesktopSystem"...
Yup, those sneaky Canucks that we thought were backwards really are centuries ahead - Canadian Bacon was onto some kind of deep conspiracy theory here!
While it might be a small overall percentage, how many people have you heard that either dual boot to Windows for the sole purpose of gaming or would switch to Mac or Linux except that their games don't work? I wouldn't doubt for a bit that there are people who have been using Linux for over 5 years, and loved playing games before they switched, how many of those people *wouldn't* go and buy your game if it worked on their OS of choice?
yes, but just in case you haven't gotten the point of the comments everybody is making of there being more virtual things, you should really be typing on a _virtual_keyboard_ and drinking _Virtual_Pr_Pepper_!
In all seriousness, I think as many times as the word "virtual" has been mentioned on this article alone, it should be permanently removed and banned from all dictionaries for the human language...
DISCLAIMER: I have *absolutely* no background in business or economics, so don't trust a bit of what I say...
I'm not sure about newer consoles like the Gamecube and Wii, but as far as I've always known, there are hardly any 3rd party development houses (compared to how many there are for Sony and MS). So the way I understand this is that somebody is trying to look at the differences of profit between 1st party dev house(s) and 3rd party dev houses as absolute numbers, and then trying to say that because there are only a few 3rd party houses, 3rd party dev houses in general make less profit...
IIRC GAIM/Pidjin states its major reason for not allowing mini-window skins (winamp/xmms style) is that it would allow for skin makers to remove options that people helping to troubleshoot (IRC channels, forums, helpdesks, etc) - while I'd sure as hell like a choice, if some idiot user stumbles into it and the skin takes menu options away, how is a helpdesk supposed to know? Allowing for skins might make things look better, but for the idiot users, it would make things a support nightmare...
I guess you missed the part where it said "off the shelf hacking software"
Just because you can click yes all the way through installing something on Windows doesn't mean the NSA should hire you to harden the Linux or BSD kernels they use on their systems...
In my haste to reply to you, I'd forgotten to mention how most people (the kind who are too ignorant to even know to empty their trash-bin) don't know that there are other themes, and are *EXTREMELY* tired of Luna, and who would probably riot if they knew how to change it. And for those who do change to silver or green - so it puts off their distaste for maybe another year or 2...
This is the only good thing I see Vista bringing to most people, is the theme change - however, once they get sick of the new one, perhaps those who paid for the OS (just the OS, not included in a new PC) will wonder why they did so??? - Well, a nerd can dream...
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there existed such ports as serial, parallel, RJ11, and cable splicing... Such things weren't so clumsy as today's USB ports - no, they were meant for a more civilized society...
This is old news - how long has this been theory for? and somebody reads Wikipedia and goes "Oh hey this is a ground-breakingly awesome discovery!" I mean, c'mon, I thought everybody that was even remotely interested had heard of these theories already (seriously)?
Not just with this summary, but it seems loads of submissions are like this anymore (seems that way to me anyway).
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So is it supposed to be the new way to create a myspace page or something? Is this MS admitting that their "LIVE" campaign is failing?
While I'm not a physicist, astro-physicist, astronomer, or have any real knowledge in the field (hey, if I'm wrong, at least I admit and accept it) - I remember reading somewhere that for low level radiation, things like certain types of clay can stop such low level radiation. Am I the only one thinking NASA wants to use the lunar dirt for at least partial shielding of a base?
Also, a base being slightly set below ground level, and even better covered by dirt, would decrease the tempurature (IIRC, this is one of the basic reasons for doing so with home-building in deserts here on Earth)...
Aside from the serious stuff, I think NASA just wants to be able to say "All your base are belong to us!" before anybody else gets a lunar base.
Which this "external connector" would likely be connected to a solar plant. You can only launch such a big solar panel on one rocket, and even if they intend on having a large scale farm of solar panels, they would likely only launch a small plant at first, which is the most these 'bots can count on until further notice...
My reasoning for this lowest common denominator of power source is that Congress hates NASA enough as is. They don't have the patience to wait for NASA to get a large scale power plant on the moon, they want work getting done 5 years ago with funding yet to come 5 years in the future...
Because the word "lunar" in the "lunar regolith" implies that its on the moon - you know, 1/3 gravity. I would expect it would only fling dirt into space. My guess is that they want to do something with this dirt, like pile it up - hence they would want to keep it on the ground.
Well, a nerd can dream anyway, right?
actually, I think he meant the GPS unit should have a breathalizer
Oh, no, Microsoft indeed has a cult - it's called /.... It's just that instead of a cult that blindly likes what they do, we here at the nation of /. hate Microsoft...
Note: For those that can't spot a joke, it's simply that we see a lot of anti-MS thoughts on here...
The hell? For some reason I thought they said it was KDE... wonder what crack I was smoking in my other post?
Hell, even if they have a different repo for Dell machines - you would still be able to add the regular Ubuntu repo(s) to your ../apt/sources.list, right? While the average joe wouldn't know how to do this, its not particularly hard either...
While I'm not the expert you asked for, I'd say because as Congress is in every generation (Congress isn't to be confused with a presidential party) - stingy on the purse strings. They were reluctant as hell to approve funding on the mission(s) to repair the Hubble - thats *repair* not send up another, which I would assume would be cheaper. So if it was a miracle to get a repair mission authorized, why would they approve even more money to send 2 up when they would be just as fine with letting the Hubble die and not send up any kind of replacement, next-gen 'scope or using technology older than the Hubble...
I'm not really into Solaris, and only scratching the surface on Linux, but when I was looking at Solaris to see what it was about, I thought they said OpenSolaris 10 uses the "Java Desktop System"...
Yup, those sneaky Canucks that we thought were backwards really are centuries ahead - Canadian Bacon was onto some kind of deep conspiracy theory here!
While it might be a small overall percentage, how many people have you heard that either dual boot to Windows for the sole purpose of gaming or would switch to Mac or Linux except that their games don't work? I wouldn't doubt for a bit that there are people who have been using Linux for over 5 years, and loved playing games before they switched, how many of those people *wouldn't* go and buy your game if it worked on their OS of choice?
yes, but just in case you haven't gotten the point of the comments everybody is making of there being more virtual things, you should really be typing on a _virtual_keyboard_ and drinking _Virtual_Pr_Pepper_!
In all seriousness, I think as many times as the word "virtual" has been mentioned on this article alone, it should be permanently removed and banned from all dictionaries for the human language...
So *that's* how we sent music out on the Voyager craft!
DISCLAIMER: I have *absolutely* no background in business or economics, so don't trust a bit of what I say...
I'm not sure about newer consoles like the Gamecube and Wii, but as far as I've always known, there are hardly any 3rd party development houses (compared to how many there are for Sony and MS). So the way I understand this is that somebody is trying to look at the differences of profit between 1st party dev house(s) and 3rd party dev houses as absolute numbers, and then trying to say that because there are only a few 3rd party houses, 3rd party dev houses in general make less profit...
IIRC GAIM/Pidjin states its major reason for not allowing mini-window skins (winamp/xmms style) is that it would allow for skin makers to remove options that people helping to troubleshoot (IRC channels, forums, helpdesks, etc) - while I'd sure as hell like a choice, if some idiot user stumbles into it and the skin takes menu options away, how is a helpdesk supposed to know? Allowing for skins might make things look better, but for the idiot users, it would make things a support nightmare...
I guess you missed the part where it said "off the shelf hacking software"
Just because you can click yes all the way through installing something on Windows doesn't mean the NSA should hire you to harden the Linux or BSD kernels they use on their systems...
In my haste to reply to you, I'd forgotten to mention how most people (the kind who are too ignorant to even know to empty their trash-bin) don't know that there are other themes, and are *EXTREMELY* tired of Luna, and who would probably riot if they knew how to change it. And for those who do change to silver or green - so it puts off their distaste for maybe another year or 2...
This is the only good thing I see Vista bringing to most people, is the theme change - however, once they get sick of the new one, perhaps those who paid for the OS (just the OS, not included in a new PC) will wonder why they did so??? - Well, a nerd can dream...
ok, so I forgot about Royale and the Zune recoloring of Royale - even though I'm using it for the reasons I mentioned...
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there existed such ports as serial, parallel, RJ11, and cable splicing... Such things weren't so clumsy as today's USB ports - no, they were meant for a more civilized society...
This is old news - how long has this been theory for? and somebody reads Wikipedia and goes "Oh hey this is a ground-breakingly awesome discovery!" I mean, c'mon, I thought everybody that was even remotely interested had heard of these theories already (seriously)?
Not just with this summary, but it seems loads of submissions are like this anymore (seems that way to me anyway).
or collect loads of dense/heavy elements and compact it into an extremely small space and make your own black-hole...
Police! Police! This man is clinically insane! he thinks shit is sacred!