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Baton Rouge, LA | [OS X] NASA's control room flooded with Macs during Mars Curiosi
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Sometimes pictures are worth a thousand words, like those that appeared over NASA's live feed showing a control room riddled with Macs and other Apple products during the historical landing of the Curiosity rover on planet Mars last night.
For more on the story and additional photos go to - »www.appleinsider.com/articles/12···ing.html |
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 Count ZeroObama-Biden 2012Premium
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Winston Salem, NC | Re: [OS X] NASA's control room flooded with Macs during Mars Cur The one poor bastard has a PC, someone must not love him. |
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Its getting there |
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As an aside, I was shocked when they pulled off this photo...think about everything that had to be beyond perfect for this shot to be taken. |
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I meet regularly with NASA folks and there is a large population of Mac users. In fact, I haven't been in a meeting yet were someone was using a Windows machine, at least in the folks that I work with. |
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Wasn’t there a similar thread here not too long ago about Engineers or was it college professors,….this is just a repeat of that. I see this more like what kind of sneakers an Olympic athlete endorses or maybe what kind of wrench your plumber prefers. |
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San Jose, CA | reply to sfogliatelle
NASA was traditionally an Apple house from way back in the 80's into the 90's. There was a great hew and cry when they attempted to move to Windows. |
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said by Octavean:Wasn’t there a similar thread here not too long ago about Engineers or was it college professors,….this is just a repeat of that. I see this more like what kind of sneakers an Olympic athlete endorses or maybe what kind of wrench your plumber prefers.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt any of these NASA employees are running Vista. Besides, isn't this a Mac forum?
Try The Cooler for who gives a fat rat's patootie on the footwear. As for the wrenches, plumbers are near unanimously loyal to one name: Ridgid. |
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1 edit | said by sfogliatelle:said by Octavean:Wasn’t there a similar thread here not too long ago about Engineers or was it college professors,….this is just a repeat of that. I see this more like what kind of sneakers an Olympic athlete endorses or maybe what kind of wrench your plumber prefers.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt any of these NASA employees are running Vista. Besides, isn't this a Mac forum? Try The Cooler for who gives a fat rat's patootie on the footwear. As for the wrenches, plumbers are near unanimously loyal to one name: Ridgid. I wouldn't know about the Vista thing,...why dont you ask the one guy in the picture using the IBM ThinkPad,..... 
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Ahhhh,…..
Here’s the thread I was referring to earlier:
»Physicists prefer Macs
It was “Physicists prefer Macs”. Somehow I remembered it as Engineers. |
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| said by Octavean:I wouldn't know about the Vista thing,...why dont you ask the one guy in the picture using the IBM ThinkPad,.....
lenovo thinkpad. He's probably the manager.
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said by Octavean: I see this more like what kind of sneakers an Olympic athlete endorses ....
More like what sneaker the gold medal winner wore! Serious running requires serious footwear, serious science requires serious computers.
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serious science requires serious computers. Seems unlikely. I don't see any Unix laptops 
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I have yet to figure out the big deal about this; it's like the "You wouldn't want your doctor to do your job?" ads. What do physicsts know about computers? They know about phyiscs, and know very little about software and computers, other than how to do certain things on them. The intelligence community for a long time used Unix as their OS of choice from what I hear (still do I bet).
said by JohnInSJ:said by TamaraB:said by Octavean: I see this more like what kind of sneakers an Olympic athlete endorses ....
serious science requires serious computers. Seems unlikely. I don't see any Unix laptops Indeed, I also see a serious lack of compute power (where is the IBM System Z?). |
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said by JohnInSJ:Seems unlikely. I don't see any Unix laptops
Duh..... OSX is bsd unix. |
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I would not be shocked if the Thinkpad is running Linux. In fact one of the video screens had the thumbnails in what appeared to be some kind of Linux windowing system and not OSX or Win.(did not have the standard orbs of OSX or the dash, box, X of windows.
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The best your tax dollars can buy. NPR has been harping on this story at every newscast... About how they had to stay up late (poor babies), and what an accomplishment it is, that it actually went right. Well, I guess in government's case, that is an accomplishment.
When they send a man there, and THAT goes well, I might be impressed.
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That's a picture of people sitting in a conference room. So what?
Here's a picture of real work being done:
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said by TamaraB:said by JohnInSJ:Seems unlikely. I don't see any Unix laptops
Duh..... OSX is bsd unix. No, it's not. It's darwin. I'd say OSX is NExT, but that will just piss off the purists MacZelots.
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3 edits | said by JohnInSJ:No, it's not. It's darwin. I'd say OSX is NExT, but that will just piss off the purists MacZelots.
Without getting into irrelevant semantics, OSX is a "NIX" OS. I have recently moved from more than two decades of using SCO, Solaris, HPUX, Linux, netbsd, and FreeBSD to a couple of Macs running OSX. Every one of my bash scripts run flawlessly, while there are some minor differences between my old BSD boxes and OSX, mainly in file system layout, OSX is essentially identical. Not so much with Linux, but the provenance to BSD is unmistakeable.
I am new to macs, only about 4 months, but the transition from BSD and Linux to OSX was the most seamless transition I have ever experienced; and that includes moving to and from SCO UNIX/Zenix, Solaris, and HPUX (I have almost NO experience with crap Windowz).
These Macs are NIX machines. Call them by whatever name you like, but they are NIX machines with a marvelously working GUI (as compared with every other X-Windows based NIX I have used in the past).
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