to a point where its hopefully a whole lot cheaper to send stuff into space, and to a point where (like this article is about) we know exactly where to go and what to do
i can see and agree with you point
like everyone here i grew up with star trek which made space travel look easy, but the reality is space travel is expensive and dangerous
i think people of our generation and our kids can forget about space travel
unless people warm up to nuclear propulsion or find other ways of generating massive amounts energy needed to escape into orbit and beyond it will remain beyond reach of an average john doe
good thing that there are still people at NASA that realize the great return for dollars spent that robotic missions bring,
they may not be as glamorous as landing people on the moon etc but at the end of the day its this "boring / tedious" type of science that moves us forward, not the "giant leaps" (that average people get bored of rather quickly as seen in the 60s) just steady progress..
but this is slashdot, what would we complain about?
slashdot'ers need an "Evil empire" in the same way as US needed the Soviet "Evil empire" to keep population in control thru fear (same thing they are doing now with terrorism)
yee people are never happy are yee?
they dont update their product => microsoft == evil
they do update their product => microsoft == evil
seems its a no win situation no matter what they do
98% of all statistics are made up. ~Author Unknown
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. ~Bobby Bragan, 1963
Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth. ~Author Unknown
Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. ~Paul Brodeur, Outrageous Misconduct
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. ~Author Unknown
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~Author Unknown
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination. ~Andrew Lang
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. ~Theodor Billroth
Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt
Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches. ~W.I.E. Gates
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. ~Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy
I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable. ~Mrs. Robert A. Taft
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.... ~H.G. Wells, The Undying Fire
The average human has one breast and one testicle. ~Des McHale
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. ~Arthur Conan Doyle
A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J. Moroney
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty." ~W.A. Wallis
After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, "Lies - damned lies - and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. ~Leonard Courtney, speech, August 1895, New York, "To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs," printed in The National Review (London, 1895) (Thank you, Mark)
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." ~Mark Twain, autobiography, 1904 (but, as yet no actual record of this under Disraeli's authorship)
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus. ~Laplace, Théorie analytique des probabilités, 1820
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. ~Louis D. Brandeis
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ~Joe Stalin, comment to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ~George Gallup
wait aint this the same google that pays people per firefox download (thats conveniently bundled with google toolbar which sends every url to google)...
too little too late some people i know have switched to alternatives like Opera or back to IE7 (both use substantially less resources on windows) due to all that ram hogging
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.addictinggames.com/ngame.html
lol, just because they are over 50 doesn't meant they don't like "poking" people!
>why so many *Americans* have trouble grasping Darwin's theory of evolution
maybe because the education system is not as good as other developed/ing countries?
and consumerism is taught at young age?
its easier to manipulate a nation of dumb asses than run a democracy where people have a voice and they can make good decisions due to good education
aint the world meant to be only 6000 years old :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFoyp71xw3w
hands up who here uses gmail to the max?
myself after 2 years im only using ~500MB
Advances to what end?
to a point where its hopefully a whole lot cheaper to send stuff into space, and to a point where (like this article is about) we know exactly where to go and what to do
i can see and agree with you point
like everyone here i grew up with star trek which made space travel look easy, but the reality is space travel is expensive and dangerous
i think people of our generation and our kids can forget about space travel
unless people warm up to nuclear propulsion or find other ways of generating massive amounts energy needed to escape into orbit and beyond it will remain beyond reach of an average john doe
good thing that there are still people at NASA that realize the great return for dollars spent that robotic missions bring,
they may not be as glamorous as landing people on the moon etc
but at the end of the day its this "boring / tedious" type of science that moves us forward, not the "giant leaps" (that average people get bored of rather quickly as seen in the 60s) just steady progress..
dont fear the penguins!
i wonder how much data can be encrypted using Steganography in that infamous Goatse image
CIA can look at a gapping hole all day then for all i care!
hmm alexa rank of 666 today?!
http://alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=slashdot.org
did he not get the memo from?
"m$ and google and are evil"
oh wait...
knowing adobe i have to ask "whats the price?"
and consumers begin to dabble in online video...
he was meant to say pRon?
but this is slashdot, what would we complain about?
slashdot'ers need an "Evil empire" in the same way as US needed the Soviet "Evil empire" to keep population in control thru fear (same thing they are doing now with terrorism)
yee people are never happy are yee? they dont update their product => microsoft == evil they do update their product => microsoft == evil seems its a no win situation no matter what they do
people you should all really watch the 5 films on this youtube play list, it'll clear up a few things about the federal reserve
98% of all statistics are made up. ~Author Unknown
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. ~Bobby Bragan, 1963
Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth. ~Author Unknown
Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. ~Paul Brodeur, Outrageous Misconduct
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. ~Author Unknown
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~Author Unknown
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination. ~Andrew Lang
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. ~Theodor Billroth
Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt
Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches. ~W.I.E. Gates
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. ~Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy
I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable. ~Mrs. Robert A. Taft
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.... ~H.G. Wells, The Undying Fire
The average human has one breast and one testicle. ~Des McHale
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. ~Arthur Conan Doyle
A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J. Moroney
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty." ~W.A. Wallis
After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, "Lies - damned lies - and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. ~Leonard Courtney, speech, August 1895, New York, "To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs," printed in The National Review (London, 1895) (Thank you, Mark)
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." ~Mark Twain, autobiography, 1904 (but, as yet no actual record of this under Disraeli's authorship)
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus. ~Laplace, Théorie analytique des probabilités, 1820
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. ~Louis D. Brandeis
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ~Joe Stalin, comment to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ~George Gallup
wait aint this the same google that pays people per firefox download (thats conveniently bundled with google toolbar which sends every url to google)...
well when a laptop has fuck all ram, and Firefox use 120MB ram to open 1 page and IE7 uses 4MB ram to render same page, something is messed up
too little too late some people i know have switched to alternatives like Opera or back to IE7 (both use substantially less resources on windows) due to all that ram hogging
Dont fear the penguins!
Solar Tower - Large Scale Renewable Energy Animation
also take a look at this discovery channel video - @ about 3mins in
didn't certain someone say "do no evil"?
who gives ubuntu versions these crazy names?