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Spirit Sends First Photo Since Troubles Began
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| Jan 29 2004
| By Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 01/29/2004 9:04:51 AM PST by Dog
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To: RockyMtnMan; randog
To: RockyMtnMan
The RAM is radiation hardened, so is a little more expensive than your average RAM.
No matter how much they charge for Mars-ready RAM, Im sure the price is a very small fraction of the shipping and handling charges.
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posted on
01/29/2004 7:50:08 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Knitebane
Yeah, I got that from RockyMtnMan's link. I've got a little more faith in the Rover now that I know that it isn't using Java.
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posted on
01/29/2004 7:56:59 PM PST
by
randog
(Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
To: Dog
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posted on
01/29/2004 8:02:00 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: randog
The hardware on Mars isn't using Java but all the intelligence on the ground is using Java ;-).
I didn't see any mention of what software was actually running on the rover, just the hardware, so it still could have a VM on the rover. Java runs on all platforms unlike Windows.
To: Dog
There's that $820 million figure again. Why do they keep publishing the price tag in every news story? The press hasn't needed to do this before. What are they trying to do soften us up before they lay the price tag for the Cassini mission on us?
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posted on
01/29/2004 11:21:32 PM PST
by
InABunkerUnderSF
(Californians: Please visit www.save187.com)
To: RockyMtnMan
The Java joke is that it is supposed to be "write once, run anywhere"- in real life it is "Write once, DEBUG everywhere"
.NET will replace Java in 2 years
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posted on
01/30/2004 8:17:45 AM PST
by
Mr. K
To: Mr. K
Highly unlikely, too many enterprise apps are using Java now. IBM rules the roost in most large enterprises and I don't see them switching to .NET anytime soon.
The app my company develops runs on many platforms using the same codebase. We did have to do some debugging but compared to a C++ environment it was a piece of cake.
To: Coyote
I just knew it. Spirit's running under Windows.That's EXACTLY what my 12 year old said when he heard it was a memory problem!!!
To: Knitebane
To: Revolting cat!
One of these days, Alice, one of these days....
POW!!!! UP TO MARS!
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:39:12 AM PST
by
Erasmus
(The best laid men gang oft a-gley. -- Robt. Burns)
To: Erasmus
You forgot: "BANG! ZOOM!"
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:40:25 AM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: Revolting cat!
I
was going to adorn the thread with a picture of a car on blocks, and even did the
Google Image Search I'm stunned.
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posted on
01/30/2004 10:43:20 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: r9etb
I like when you can use the Pete Townshend excuse: "I was only doing research, Your Honor!"
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posted on
01/30/2004 11:03:37 AM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: Revolting cat!
"I was only doing research, Your Honor!" C'mon -- would you really have expected that when you searched for "cars on blocks?" Sometimes ya just have to wonder....
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posted on
01/30/2004 11:18:32 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: r9etb
The *****graphers do all kinds of tricks to try to outsmart the Web indexing software, which attempts to to screen them out, and in this case they succeeded. AltaVista and AlltheWeb don't show that one.
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posted on
01/30/2004 11:24:03 AM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: frithguild
![](http://www.ecrannoir.fr/films/96/images/mars01.jpg)
"ACK! ACK!...ACK! ACK! ACK!....DEAN?...EEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH. QUICK, DESTROY THIS THING!"
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posted on
01/30/2004 12:35:49 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Any day you wake up is a good day.)
To: RockyMtnMan
I can appreciate your point of view, but IBM tried to stick with OS/2 for how long? before it was officially dead
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posted on
01/30/2004 1:06:09 PM PST
by
Mr. K
To: Mr. K
Not the same thing. We are talking about enterprise apps not desktop OS's. Microsoft has never owned the high-end enterprise apps that has always been the territory of IBM.
Microsoft was/is so shaken up by Java they first tried to destroy it then they copied it (C#). Java will be around for a long time to come much to Microsoft's dismay.
To: StriperSniper
The problem, of course, had to do with the
last image it sent back...
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posted on
01/30/2004 2:48:53 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(Cat: The other white meat.)
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