Posts by brooxta

Curiously

... this is part of the first set of colour images captured by Curiosity this morning.

As you can see, Google tried to one-up NASA (in a bet between Page/Brin and Bolden where the stakes were landing/take-off rights at more NASA landing strips), by beating them to the LZ on Mars. Sadly their G-Rocket (beta) landing system has atrocious latencies via Odyssey and the whole thing came to a sorry end.

NASA were obviously chuffed to bits to hit the LZ successfully and get some shots of the pranged G-Rover for bragging. What took everybody by surprise, however, was the sight of an indignant amanfrommars dinging said G-Rover with prime specimen Martian rock samples in response to Google's brazen intrusion into his previously unmolested (and indeed uncontended) home wifi system.

PMOIDH? Please?

Cultural imperialist misattribution ... grrrr

Oi Rik! Mark Twain didn't come up with all the best quotes!

Accounts of the origins of this quote have been grossly misreported.

See here (http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lies.htm) for details about the actual history of the phrase. Even Twain acknowledged that he himself didn't come up with it.

Perhaps your copy should be adjusted to say, "as Mark Twain was wont to say, 'as Disraeli was wont to say, "There are ..."'"

Grumble, grumble, can you believe the cultural imperialism coming from the colonies these days, grumble, grumble.

Wow!

This guy is a genius, a hero, a legend in his own lifetime, a giant of a man. Mars within a decade? Awesome!

Now all I need to do is:

1) write some open source software

2) ????

3) Profit!!

4) Save.

5) Buy the first ticket.

Great but what about the screen?

Thank you for your review, I for one will almost certainly be buying one of these, but what about the screen Andrew?

Is it resistive or capacitive?