If I recall correctly, then the first American *automated* docking was in 1976. 14 years after the first American man in space.
Overall I get the impression China is working long term, steadily going forward, not racing to plant a flag, but building to stay.
I would do my best to stay healthy and hope for medicine and robotics to improve so any organ that fails can be replaced.
Then 100 years from now, in the year 2111 someone will come up with a way to get our lifespan up to 250.
Why die at all when we can continue to live in a robot-body that for all practical purposes is indistinguishable from our current body ?
Same here, mod parent insightful!
Usually (even in firefox) just typing / to find something just works...
Only a small (though loud) minority of Linux users believes in a Microsoft vs Linux fight. Linux was created in 1991 to be a POSIX compliant kernel, not to be a competitor to MS. The GNU tools were created to have a free Unix. GNU + Linux is a fine example of open source in the Unix world, and is definitely not a reaction/fight/whatever towards Microsoft.
If you're crying "user friendly" and then talking about Vim, I daresay youre doing it wrong. Vim may be many things, but easy it is not.
Please do not confuse "hard to learn" with "hard to use". vi(m) might be hard to learn, but it is very easy to use!
Two weeks ago I put some screenshots of what it looks like on my blog:
http://cobbaut.blogspot.com/
"they always seem to want to write a check and don't start pulling the checkbook"
There are countries in 2010 where people still use checks ?! Our history teacher told us about checks... but nobody here still uses them.
"You do know that NY-Washington already has high speed rail, right? It could be better, but it's the only one in the country at the moment, and it makes Amtrack money hand over fist."
Since when is 120kph average (240kph max) considered high speed ?
High speed trains in Europe average above 300kph.
In HTML, to create a preformatted block you often use PRE. Well obviously that was to simple for DocBook so you have to nest two tags INFORMALEXAMPLE PROGRAMLISTING source code
You could use SCREEN
They forgot the cd protection cracked with a black marker...
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/1069/black_marker_cracks_cd_protection/
There is no microbiological difference between orbiting the Earth and going to Mars
Yes there is, ISS gets air resupply regularly!!
Curious that the search string "cobbaut aernout" turns up nothing for Google in your link...
http://blindsearch.fejus.com/?q=%22cobbaut+aernout%22&type=web
But it does give a result in google...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22cobbaut+aernout%22
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. - David Letterman
