No. They're just the lion's share. My view is that for space science, they probably outweigh the rest of the planet, including the DoD's expenditures on space science.

Personally, I'd rather the US's budget were reduced by a factor of two or three. Elimination of NASA funding as a side effect would be acceptable. But since it isn't going to happen, yes, with the proviso that extended stays mean stays of years, not weeks or months. Unmanned space science missions should take advantage of well known economies of scale (such as reuse of technology and standardized components, building more probes at a time to spread out development costs, and missions that favor smaller, more frequent launches over larger, less frequent launches. And such research should support US economic needs, such as figuring out how to make money from activities and resources in space.

The main problem with Firefly was that Fox showed them out of order, with The Train Robbery as the first episode on tv. I watched about 1/2 hour of it and turned it off. Wasn't until Serenity movie hit cheap DVD's at Costco that I watched it and then picked up the entire series. Watching it in the order Whedon filmed them, it was a lot better.

'Course, I've heard that Fox has a revolving door with upper management and it's usually a new manager coming in who kills off shows of his predecessor, sorta' like a dog pissing on another dog's spot.

Bummer.

Those were not guys, they were nuns (so the confusion is understandable).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmQ3f1PRnw0

It was good marketing, in the sense that it got your attention, but it was awful in the sense that it told you nothing about why you would actually want this, or what it does.

Did they make a quantum leap in 4.0,
No they made a big change, not an incredibly small one.

Um, OS/2 never had a WindowsNT 3.51 emulator.

It had Win32s for it's Windows 3.1 support layer, which was well-acknowledged at the time to be a nearly complete miscarriage of an implementation. If something was written for Win32s, you had a 50/50 shot of it working properly with standard Win32.

And odds are they were using the Watcom Compiler, who's Windows support I considered shit. OS/2 and protected mode DOS however, it was pretty solid.

Of course they did. They also read the Ultimate (FF,Galactus) series of comics, and introduced some of those ideas because their superiors at Marvel forced them to. The result was the mess you watched in the theater.

No way? a) Iron Man is the Leader of the Avengers. Downey gets to boss around the other stars, and stare down Jackson, who will only have one eye to stare with. b) Maybe it's part of his contract that he'll play Iron Man in three movies, like McGuire got stuck for Six Spiderman movies.

It's not as simple as that. If the kernel contained a read access to that pointer in the exploitable code, it would still perform a read, even though the memory location contained executable code. The only thing would be, that now you would have the numerical value of the instructions in a register, that's it.

But in many cases, the NULL pointer dereference would still be exploitable, it would only be slightly more complicated.

I'm almost in the same situation as yourself. Went back to university in my early thirty's after 10 years outside of academia. One site I really liked and recommend it the Khan Academy site. It starts with basic arithmetic, allows you to work through multiple examples while grading your progress as you go along. Works it's way up to derivatives the last time I checked. I'm really not doing justice to the excellent work done by Sal (if my memory serves me well that's his first name as well as being a MIT graduate). The site linked to youtube videos explaining the concepts and back when i used it all of this was completely free. If you happen to know anyone related to this site, tell them I said thank you. S.

I mean this in the most polite way possible. Your post os so very appropriate! 1) Phd in Physics 2) This is Slashdot 3) Your mom 4) Profit!?!?! (Had to throw that in there!) Cheers, S.

I've grew up on the east coast, lived on the west coast for several years and have been in Quebec for the past 3. Thanks for the chuckle!