hubble was working, and definitely cheaper than a moon base. also, it doesnt have the issues of being based on the moon and being bound by moon's rotation arond itself and its orbit around earth.
The materials requirements for such a colony would help advance current automated mining and miscelaneous factories.
as someone from industrial engineering background i can tell you that; the only thing that is preventing full automated factories from happening is unemployment concerns, and consequently politics. we dont need to go to moon for that.
what will an extraterrestrial colony housing 100-300 scientists going to do in the event of worldwide catastrophe ? in the wake of that catastrophe those scientists are going to be replaced by whiteass elite rich and politicians who are totally useless to the civilization anyways ?
When we see a.net project request every now and then, we say "oh hey look, someone is having a.net project done" - its like seeing an elephant in a circus.
nothing is killer platform unless it gets widespread use.
and how is it gonna be ? it is further than any orbit hence difficult to reach, you have lesser structural requirements in orbit as it is zero gravity but you will have to take care of moon gravity when building there, there are temperature extremes between night and day and so on.
they are not able to acceptably and feasibly maintain an orbital space station around earth. Are they gonna go set up a base in a more distant and hostile environment ?
Hubble is just one thing that space exploration have provided marginal benefits for us, other than unintended consequences of new materials discovered while doing the research.
It provided unfathomable, invaluable insight to our own universe - take note of this, the universe word here is not some metaphor, synonym, acronym or any crap for anything - it is the REAL thing, what we exist in.
while squandering hoards of taxpayer dollars for crap that not worth, you nasa can neglect maybe the single scientifically most profitable thing that you have ever been able to produce ?
you never intentionally nudge, drop or tip over your case accidents do happen.
no its not burn issue or something. its something that dates back 1996, when first economically accessible cd rom drives became available.
simple in fact, the reader head has a position just like disk drives. and it can nudge too easily being of a delicate nature. it differs from brand to brand too however, but i have been using LG (then goldstar for some time) drives for all 12 years since then, it is a quality brand, so i think it can happen to quality brands too.
there is a nice 52x cdrom reader lying in the back room. just dropped it while attaching to the new case from 25 centimenters height. gone. does not read half of the cdroms i have, which of all it read before.
again, its not the medium, its the reader which is more problematic.
if you accidentally nudge your case rather harshly, cd rom reader head's position can get a negligible measure of misplacement and this can lead to cds that were written by any specific drive model/speed/format being unreadable.
happened me to many times.
if the floppy drive is normal quality however, it doesnt get busted that way. only the floppy disks are problematic.
optical disk drive reader head adjustment can be broken by a slight nudge to the case and that can lead to many cds not being read. whereas floppy drive doesnt have that weak a reader head adjustment.
once every 2 years this debate is put forth and a few articles are published about it. yet, floppy still stays and will stay.
floppy drives are just there for system recoveries, safe reboots and such.
cd roms and dvd roms cant be trusted to do that - their reader heads are too fragile and can go out of balance with the slightest impact if you are not careful. it is a hard day at work to find out that your recovery disk you have used 1 year ago is not read anymore by your dvd just when you need to safe boot your pc, or some other cds found around the office which were created by the same recorder.
floppy drives on the other hand are just too brutally effective - they are highly unsophisticatedly mechanical that, you can trust it to always work as it is tough to break, and it reads any floppy disk created by any floppy drive.
no no, im not using effects while listening them. i tried to emphasize the card.
speakers are good. i have a pioneer music set that dates 1991, but when i went and checked the updated stereo amps and columns, i saw that mine was still putting out comparable quality sound. 2 stereo speakers have 30cm+ bass, 10 cm mid range and 3-4 cm tweeters.
rather than slowly copy each file across to your system as it works out what you need it copies an image of the OS containing all the files, thus significantly increasing the speed of an install. nothing new here except that now windows can do it instead of needing 3rd party imaging software.
So ? How is this useful and a fantastic new feature for the millions of users who get os'es installed by a techie and use it for over 1-1.5 years ? i dont think that vista requires regular reinstallations so this feature is useless for mainstream user ?
no, it allows you to actually click on any component of the path and navigate to that, so this is instead of having to have shortcuts on the display or having to step through the paths.
directory site navigation like linking ? this is some fantastic, exciting feature ? we already have shortcuts for what we often use and need swift access, so what use is this when browsing some deep folder once in a week or even month ?
ahhhh so just because someone can use a free encryption program this is irrelevant? name one free program that easily allows you to encrypt your entire harddrive content including the OS and is easy to use?
tell me one encryption system that wont take toll on system resources and tell me one techie that wont go nuts trying to tell an average joe why his/her computer slowing down like hell with encryption and why s/he cant "make it faster". is this something that can justify hundreds of dollars of new purchases both in terms of hardware and vista cost to boot ? free > easy in most situations, especially in mid $xxx range and over.
this is just your lack of understanding, it is not just undelete of somethign you press delete on, it is undelete on stuff you overwrote, try recovering that document you overwrote from your recycling bin.
you are meaning that something that is marked as deleted in filesystem and the space it occupied was overwritten by some other file, hence previously unrecoverable. then it is so that it will use a svn like system for it. actually this might be curse than a blessing, since even the registry file structure most often gets corrupted in even xp and causes many hard to detect errors ranging from driver issues resulting from the records to even more serious stuff. more stuff to be broken here that means ?
directX10 has a lot of changes that make utilising new graphics cards more efficient and allow for much better utilisation of CPU and graphics memory and GPU, if you really were a gamer as you stated this would be something you would be looking forward too as it increases a programmers abilities to deliver better games to you. but hey your a troll so no point in explaining that.
im sorry, but for these arguments here about dx10 and gaming, i will outright and flat out say you are totally wrong.
there are acceptable levels of gaming - NO gamer wants to unload around $3000 on hardware so that their vistaed new box will function as fast and acceptable as their previous xp box. any hardcore gamer knows that from some point on there are limits to what human perception can discern in terms of visuals, sound and any other input from the interface. it does not matter in a heated 20vs20 battle the orc you are facing has 1 degrees more smoothed out corners or not, even. and the current state of gaming art delivers more than what is needed.
and you should know that the phrase "better games" does not mean nothing to a hardcore gamer. it is undefinable and too obscure.
you are calling me a troll, but you are speaking like a microsoft salesman citing vague arguments ?
Even the below is single-handedly enough for deterring me away from vista :
5. Driver support -- Key hardware like video and sound is crippled at the moment -- while Nvidia is working furiously to get a stable driver for the 8800 out by the 30th, there's still no SLI support for any of the Nvidia range. And thanks to the removal of hardware accelerated 3D sound in Vista, Creative's popular DirectSound based EAX no longer works at all, muting this feature for just about all gaming titles on the market today. Creative is in the process of coding a layer for its drivers to translate EAX calls to the OpenAL API which is seperate from Vista, but going by past experience with Creative drivers we won't see these any time soon.
not only nvidia stuff, but eax too. horrible as i got a creative xtreme music card to listen to 500+ classic music pieces, not to mention quality gaming sound. what kind of lack of foresight is this on part of ms ?
"DRM -- And to a lesser degree TPM -- were made for the RIAAs and MPAAs of this world, and the even tighter integration of copy protection mechanisms and 'Windows Rights Management' into vista are nothing more than a liability to you, the user."
well, this was the main shit that vista was delayed a few years anyway. im happy with my current situation as it is.
"half the limit compared to XP for Home Basic and Premium on how many machines can connect to yours for sharing, printing and accessing the Internet;"
i can say that loads of small businesses in turkey will be yelling the hell outta ms representatives on this one.
god, WHAT is this ? im gonna make a critique, but i am speechless. WHAT is image based install ? and why is it good for us ? Were the installations of xp domino-based ? god, i cant establish relevancy - WHAT is that ?
"Up-to-date driver base and better driver handling on installation"
a driver base that will get old in the next 4 months with the coming of new graphics cards and mobos into the market. is that it ? so, it means that xp users were being left to fend for themselves until now ? and vista users will be so after they buy vista ?
"Desktop search and search folders built in"
what is a search folder ?
" Sleep mode that actually works. "
it already works under xp if you have an o.k. quality mobo ?!!
"Rock-solid laptop encryption"
anyone who is able to use encryption is already doing it for NO cost with free programs ?
"Better file navigation"
ehehehee. i read this, understood what the bloke is meaning there, and smiled. so just more shortcuts to display on left hand side eh ? great feature.
"Inbuilt undelete"
s/he who was afraid of deleting something by mistake was already using the recycling bin. SO ?
"9. DirectX10 OK, this isn't so much a benefit as your hand being forced: DirectX 10 will never be made for XP"
you just got that one right there, bloke, and this summarizes why there are no other features that microsoft needs to BULLY people into vista with the direct x 10 shit. they didnt need to put out a new directx version for a long time now, and just with the coming of vista suddenly a need for a new directx appears.
ill tell you what - we wont be playing games that force us to directx 10. im a gamer, not a moron. world of warcraft, age of conan are not forcing dx10 either, so, microsoft will have to shove it up their...... or someone somewhere will just hack dx10 to work with xp and that will be all.
"10. Face it, you have no choice"
... no choice but to stupefy in the wake of my 10 reasons to get vista
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we can accomplish any of what you say except reduced gravity manufacturing by investing more in any field.
The materials requirements for such a colony would help advance current automated mining and miscelaneous factories.
as someone from industrial engineering background i can tell you that; the only thing that is preventing full automated factories from happening is unemployment concerns, and consequently politics. we dont need to go to moon for that.
what will an extraterrestrial colony housing 100-300 scientists going to do in the event of worldwide catastrophe ? in the wake of that catastrophe those scientists are going to be replaced by whiteass elite rich and politicians who are totally useless to the civilization anyways ?
.NET a killer platform, especially for Web apps.Im in web development business.
When we see a
nothing is killer platform unless it gets widespread use.
very well. but what all these will accomplish in the end ?
and how is it gonna be ? it is further than any orbit hence difficult to reach, you have lesser structural requirements in orbit as it is zero gravity but you will have to take care of moon gravity when building there, there are temperature extremes between night and day and so on.
they are not able to acceptably and feasibly maintain an orbital space station around earth. Are they gonna go set up a base in a more distant and hostile environment ?
just tell me the answer to this ...
maybe you obviously dont know a fuck about web programming ?
there is no need to 'simulate' a user interface.
there IS already a user interface on any computer that a human uses. its in the browser and in the os.
what we do with forms to actually COLLECT the data and process it and send it back, as you said.
it is just waste trying to create a nifty looking new interface where there is already one interface which is working well enough.
Hubble is just one thing that space exploration have provided marginal benefits for us, other than unintended consequences of new materials discovered while doing the research.
It provided unfathomable, invaluable insight to our own universe - take note of this, the universe word here is not some metaphor, synonym, acronym or any crap for anything - it is the REAL thing, what we exist in.
while squandering hoards of taxpayer dollars for crap that not worth, you nasa can neglect maybe the single scientifically most profitable thing that you have ever been able to produce ?
go fucking fix it now
you never intentionally nudge, drop or tip over your case accidents do happen.
no its not burn issue or something. its something that dates back 1996, when first economically accessible cd rom drives became available.
simple in fact, the reader head has a position just like disk drives. and it can nudge too easily being of a delicate nature. it differs from brand to brand too however, but i have been using LG (then goldstar for some time) drives for all 12 years since then, it is a quality brand, so i think it can happen to quality brands too.
there is a nice 52x cdrom reader lying in the back room. just dropped it while attaching to the new case from 25 centimenters height. gone. does not read half of the cdroms i have, which of all it read before.
again, its not the medium, its the reader which is more problematic.
if you accidentally nudge your case rather harshly, cd rom reader head's position can get a negligible measure of misplacement and this can lead to cds that were written by any specific drive model/speed/format being unreadable.
happened me to many times.
if the floppy drive is normal quality however, it doesnt get busted that way. only the floppy disks are problematic.
optical disk drive reader head adjustment can be broken by a slight nudge to the case and that can lead to many cds not being read. whereas floppy drive doesnt have that weak a reader head adjustment.
i was saying floppy DRIVEs. not floppy disks. floppy disks always breaked quick. but you just can make 3 bootup disks and spare them easily.
once every 2 years this debate is put forth and a few articles are published about it. yet, floppy still stays and will stay.
floppy drives are just there for system recoveries, safe reboots and such.
cd roms and dvd roms cant be trusted to do that - their reader heads are too fragile and can go out of balance with the slightest impact if you are not careful. it is a hard day at work to find out that your recovery disk you have used 1 year ago is not read anymore by your dvd just when you need to safe boot your pc, or some other cds found around the office which were created by the same recorder.
floppy drives on the other hand are just too brutally effective - they are highly unsophisticatedly mechanical that, you can trust it to always work as it is tough to break, and it reads any floppy disk created by any floppy drive.
names in the web hosting industry anyway. Web hosting forums are full of godaddy horror stories. Guy should take notice before working with them.
no no, im not using effects while listening them. i tried to emphasize the card.
speakers are good. i have a pioneer music set that dates 1991, but when i went and checked the updated stereo amps and columns, i saw that mine was still putting out comparable quality sound. 2 stereo speakers have 30cm+ bass, 10 cm mid range and 3-4 cm tweeters.
and sound comes out pretty much enjoyable.
what about the whole untested, virgin lands, a new world for hackers and exploiters, the vista itself ?
google desktop search does wonders in any xp box ? why spend hundreds for something that needs more resources to function while this one is free ?
well, in any case this is useful for techies installing regularly. no meaning for the average joe that uses an installed copy for at least 1.5 years
So ? How is this useful and a fantastic new feature for the millions of users who get os'es installed by a techie and use it for over 1-1.5 years ? i dont think that vista requires regular reinstallations so this feature is useless for mainstream user ?
no, it allows you to actually click on any component of the path and navigate to that, so this is instead of having to have shortcuts on the display or having to step through the paths.
directory site navigation like linking ? this is some fantastic, exciting feature ? we already have shortcuts for what we often use and need swift access, so what use is this when browsing some deep folder once in a week or even month ?
ahhhh so just because someone can use a free encryption program this is irrelevant? name one free program that easily allows you to encrypt your entire harddrive content including the OS and is easy to use?
tell me one encryption system that wont take toll on system resources and tell me one techie that wont go nuts trying to tell an average joe why his/her computer slowing down like hell with encryption and why s/he cant "make it faster". is this something that can justify hundreds of dollars of new purchases both in terms of hardware and vista cost to boot ? free > easy in most situations, especially in mid $xxx range and over.
this is just your lack of understanding, it is not just undelete of somethign you press delete on, it is undelete on stuff you overwrote, try recovering that document you overwrote from your recycling bin.
you are meaning that something that is marked as deleted in filesystem and the space it occupied was overwritten by some other file, hence previously unrecoverable. then it is so that it will use a svn like system for it. actually this might be curse than a blessing, since even the registry file structure most often gets corrupted in even xp and causes many hard to detect errors ranging from driver issues resulting from the records to even more serious stuff. more stuff to be broken here that means ?
directX10 has a lot of changes that make utilising new graphics cards more efficient and allow for much better utilisation of CPU and graphics memory and GPU, if you really were a gamer as you stated this would be something you would be looking forward too as it increases a programmers abilities to deliver better games to you. but hey your a troll so no point in explaining that.
im sorry, but for these arguments here about dx10 and gaming, i will outright and flat out say you are totally wrong.
there are acceptable levels of gaming - NO gamer wants to unload around $3000 on hardware so that their vistaed new box will function as fast and acceptable as their previous xp box. any hardcore gamer knows that from some point on there are limits to what human perception can discern in terms of visuals, sound and any other input from the interface. it does not matter in a heated 20vs20 battle the orc you are facing has 1 degrees more smoothed out corners or not, even. and the current state of gaming art delivers more than what is needed.
and you should know that the phrase "better games" does not mean nothing to a hardcore gamer. it is undefinable and too obscure.
you are calling me a troll, but you are speaking like a microsoft salesman citing vague arguments ?
you by any chance are not assuming that it was too hard to read the paragraphs below the headlines do you ?
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Even the below is single-handedly enough for deterring me away from vista :
5. Driver support -- Key hardware like video and sound is crippled at the moment -- while Nvidia is working furiously to get a stable driver for the 8800 out by the 30th, there's still no SLI support for any of the Nvidia range. And thanks to the removal of hardware accelerated 3D sound in Vista, Creative's popular DirectSound based EAX no longer works at all, muting this feature for just about all gaming titles on the market today. Creative is in the process of coding a layer for its drivers to translate EAX calls to the OpenAL API which is seperate from Vista, but going by past experience with Creative drivers we won't see these any time soon.
not only nvidia stuff, but eax too. horrible as i got a creative xtreme music card to listen to 500+ classic music pieces, not to mention quality gaming sound. what kind of lack of foresight is this on part of ms ?
"DRM -- And to a lesser degree TPM -- were made for the RIAAs and MPAAs of this world, and the even tighter integration of copy protection mechanisms and 'Windows Rights Management' into vista are nothing more than a liability to you, the user."
well, this was the main shit that vista was delayed a few years anyway. im happy with my current situation as it is.
"half the limit compared to XP for Home Basic and Premium on how many machines can connect to yours for sharing, printing and accessing the Internet;"
i can say that loads of small businesses in turkey will be yelling the hell outta ms representatives on this one.
"ui built for the era of video and photography"
...... or someone somewhere will just hack dx10 to work with xp and that will be all.
... no choice but to stupefy in the wake of my 10 reasons to get vista
JUST WHAT the hell does that mean ?!?!?!
"Image-based install"
god, WHAT is this ? im gonna make a critique, but i am speechless. WHAT is image based install ? and why is it good for us ? Were the installations of xp domino-based ? god, i cant establish relevancy - WHAT is that ?
"Up-to-date driver base and better driver handling on installation"
a driver base that will get old in the next 4 months with the coming of new graphics cards and mobos into the market. is that it ? so, it means that xp users were being left to fend for themselves until now ? and vista users will be so after they buy vista ?
"Desktop search and search folders built in"
what is a search folder ?
" Sleep mode that actually works. "
it already works under xp if you have an o.k. quality mobo ?!!
"Rock-solid laptop encryption"
anyone who is able to use encryption is already doing it for NO cost with free programs ?
"Better file navigation"
ehehehee. i read this, understood what the bloke is meaning there, and smiled. so just more shortcuts to display on left hand side eh ? great feature.
"Inbuilt undelete"
s/he who was afraid of deleting something by mistake was already using the recycling bin. SO ?
"9. DirectX10 OK, this isn't so much a benefit as your hand being forced: DirectX 10 will never be made for XP"
you just got that one right there, bloke, and this summarizes why there are no other features that microsoft needs to BULLY people into vista with the direct x 10 shit. they didnt need to put out a new directx version for a long time now, and just with the coming of vista suddenly a need for a new directx appears.
ill tell you what - we wont be playing games that force us to directx 10. im a gamer, not a moron. world of warcraft, age of conan are not forcing dx10 either, so, microsoft will have to shove it up their
"10. Face it, you have no choice"
definitely not here.