It's also worth reading an article Easterbrook wrote in 1980 - prior to the first shuttle flight. It's almost eerily (sp?) prophetic in predicting the Challenger and Columbia catastrophic failures.
NASA now exists to support aerospace contractors. Jerry Pournelle, noted SF authour, proposes a simple system of rewards to encourage private ventures into space. Unfortuantely, the pork-barrel politics of NASA funding mean that the US will be tied to an incompetent bureaucracy for at least another generation...
Before DoD will discolose information to contractors, they must meet certain security standards. If a few punks off the street can waltz off with the medical records of 500k+ service personnel and their families, TriWest has failed to maintain the security accreditation they were granted.
Watch for TriWest to lose all their government business in the near future; they have shown themselves unable to meet the minimal standards required to secure personal information (let alone information dealing with national security!)
Thisnshows the horrible nepotism that's rife at university campuses - professors funnel thousands of dollars to their wives, girlfriends and children, paying well above market rates.
The Atari 8-bit line (400,800, xl and xe models) did not have a set graphics mode. Rather, programmers could create their own "display list", a program for the ANTIC procesor, telling it how to interpret the screen data. Screen data could be located anywhere in system memory.
The Atari 8-bit computers were well-designed, and had an underlying oS that actually reflected some thought and planning (standard device interfaces etc).
And why shouldn't third parties have the right to re-edit?
If I buy a copy of a movie for my own use, what right does anyone have to tell me what to do with it? If I want to splice my copy of Ep I so it's all Jar-Jar, all the time, it's my right to do so.
It's only if I try to pass of my edit to someone else that the original creator has any say.
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Nowdays, legislators only care about the checks... or the unmarked bills...
Linksys has a broken PPPoE client in their routers - they do not ensure that all packets are greater than the Ethernet minimum size. See http://www.istop.com/linksyssucks.html for the details.
Personally, I'm running an SMC Barricade 7004ABR, and love it.
1. The treat bans anti-pers (AP) mines only; the bulk of the Korean minefields are anti-tank (AT).
2. Doctrinally, all minefields are to be covered by observed direct or observed indirect fire. Thus, should the NK start infiltrating the minefields, a few rounds of belt-fed 7.62mm or 155mm should be an adequate deterrence.
And finally, even the venerable claymore can still be employed with its clicker; only the tripwire has to be set aside.
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http://www.bluefeathertech.com/technoid/calswap
where a techie reivews many vendors in California. Great resource.
Actually, it was Arthur C Clarke who posited the sputnik, not Isaac Asimov.
Oxymoron if I've ever hear one...
Decent TV???
Well, they could have diversified their portfolios.
I have limited sympathy for many of those who lost heavily in the collapse of Enron - all your eggs in one basket is just poor financial planning.
Or you could just move to Canada, where broadband is cheap and plentiful (in most parts of the country).
I can choose from wireless (2M/2M) for $28 USD/month; DSL (1.2M/160K) for $20 USD/month, or cable () for $30 USD/month.
Oh yeah, the beer's better here, too...
See the 23 year old critique at:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/8 004.easterbrook-fulltext.html
NASA now exists to support aerospace contractors. Jerry Pournelle, noted SF authour, proposes a simple system of rewards to encourage private ventures into space. Unfortuantely, the pork-barrel politics of NASA funding mean that the US will be tied to an incompetent bureaucracy for at least another generation...
Parent should be modded "+1, Pop-culture reference that pre-dates most readers"
Now I feel old.
"My god! They're turkeys!"
Unless, of course, you have an LCD screen...
Before DoD will discolose information to contractors, they must meet certain security standards. If a few punks off the street can waltz off with the medical records of 500k+ service personnel and their families, TriWest has failed to maintain the security accreditation they were granted.
Watch for TriWest to lose all their government business in the near future; they have shown themselves unable to meet the minimal standards required to secure personal information (let alone information dealing with national security!)
When an obnoxious site requires an email address toadvance, I just use "abuse@annoyingsite.com".
Check it out, once the slashdotting has died down...
Is there a "+1, Classic Simpsons" moderation option?
One correction:
South Africa is the only nation in the world to posess and then destroy their nuclear weapons (lots of development was shared with the Israelis).
The reason for their turn around? An awareness that black majority rule was inevitable, and a desire not to leave nuclear weapons behind.
Thisnshows the horrible nepotism that's rife at university campuses - professors funnel thousands of dollars to their wives, girlfriends and children, paying well above market rates.
Academia is wholly corrupt.
Um, that's 880 miles as a land speeder, and 102 000 miles as an Escort. Read the ad.
Correction: the Athlon doesn't have 8K squared and doubled in its cache. 8192^2*2 will give you 128 Megs of cache...
drool
Nah, Ralph Wiggum, not Peter.
The Atari 8-bit line (400,800, xl and xe models) did not have a set graphics mode. Rather, programmers could create their own "display list", a program for the ANTIC procesor, telling it how to interpret the screen data. Screen data could be located anywhere in system memory.
The Atari 8-bit computers were well-designed, and had an underlying oS that actually reflected some thought and planning (standard device interfaces etc).
And why shouldn't third parties have the right to re-edit?
If I buy a copy of a movie for my own use, what right does anyone have to tell me what to do with it? If I want to splice my copy of Ep I so it's all Jar-Jar, all the time, it's my right to do so.
It's only if I try to pass of my edit to someone else that the original creator has any say.
Nowdays, legislators only care about the checks... or the unmarked bills...
WMA files are not perfectly good. Upgrade your CPU and you lose the license (if you accidentally left DRM turned on). Solution? MP3.
WMA is a tool of the Devil (tm Microsoft)
Linksys has a broken PPPoE client in their routers - they do not ensure that all packets are greater than the Ethernet minimum size. See http://www.istop.com/linksyssucks.html for the details.
Personally, I'm running an SMC Barricade 7004ABR, and love it.
1. The treat bans anti-pers (AP) mines only; the bulk of the Korean minefields are anti-tank (AT).
2. Doctrinally, all minefields are to be covered by observed direct or observed indirect fire. Thus, should the NK start infiltrating the minefields, a few rounds of belt-fed 7.62mm or 155mm should be an adequate deterrence.
And finally, even the venerable claymore can still be employed with its clicker; only the tripwire has to be set aside.
Kazan bought his security by naming names at the HUAC - may he rest in hell.
But illiterate sociologists is just a bad caricature , isn't it?