It's simply because they don't know the exact mass of Vesta, and therefore don't know exactly the gravitational pull of Vesta. After they are better able to determine the mass (and gravity) of Vesta, they will begin to move Dawn into a closer orbit based upon the gravitational pull.
I finish every game that I buy. Since my time is so limited these days (kids, work, etc.), I'm very particular about the games that I purchase. I know what genres I like, I know the style that suits me, so I only buy those games.
Now, that being said, gone are the days when I could power through a game in a weekend, stopping only to eat and evacuate. Nowadays, it may take me a solid month to complete that same game, but I will finish it.
I currently work in one of these Kansas City area limestone caves. My company runs a datacenter/colo here and we don't run into this problem of dust playing merry hell with the drive arrays. The solution...paint the ceiling and install ceiling tiles to create a "normal" room. No rocks, no dust, just a clean and efficient datacenter.
The answer sort of lies in what your goals are and what the position requires you to do.
Personal Anecdote:
I started off as a lowly PC tech in the IT industry back in the 90's. After working several years in the field, I moved on to another company doing basically the same job, but with opportunity to advance. After a few years, I was given a Tech Lead position. This was great, but the company wasn't doing so hot so I left to work at a tax company (rhymes with clock). Not soon after joining that company I was basically forced into a management position and I hated it. I didn't hate it because it was management, I hated it because the company forced me to treat my employees like dirt and my director was actually insulted by my tech knowledge and I was barred from using it. I decided to look for a new job and because of my tech and management experience I got another Tech Management position...this one I loved. The company totally embraced my knowledge and experience and allowed me to not just be a boss, but also a mentor and resource for my team. Without that previous management experience though I would never have been able to get the job. Yeah, it sucked for a while, but in the end it was totally worth it.
Zyll was my first foray into text adventure games. I remember spending hours at my dad's IBM Sr. Partner staring at the black and green screen trying to figure out where the three items were. I still keep a copy of DOSBox around just in case I want to fire up Zyll again. Such a great game.
I'm really glad to see that they are finally coming out with a new MechWarrior game. Being a veteran of all the previous iterations, I've been longing for a new one for quite some time.
The fact that they are re-releasing 4 for free is also very good news. 4 was certainly not my favorite, but it definitely gives me an excuse to ignore my family for awhile until the new game is released.
I'm an iPhone user as well (company provided) and I really think this iPhone failure rate being better than BB is total bunk. I've worked at a very large corporation were all execs and managers had BBs. On average, we had to replace a BB maybe once or twice a week (out of approx 1000 in circ.). Fast forward to today, and in a small company with 4 employees using iPhones (myself included) every single one of them has had to be replaced since we started using them 9 months ago. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but that's a 100% failure rate for the original 4 phones in less than 9 months.
I'm no BB fan either, but something just doesn't seem right...
BubbleMod was/is the single best mod I've ever had the pleasure of playing. It brought a certain extra amount of fun to an otherwise worn out HL. Eggplant, if you are out there, love ya man, some of the most fun I've ever had in gaming. I don't know how popular it ended up, but being involved in that community really rekindled my love for the FPS.
Ah, to have been so lucky, all the machines were ontop of the desks. Honestly though, at least once a month I had a knock on my office door (office..right..it was actually the server room) from a student who was either willing to exchange money or "favors" if I would change their grades. I never followed through, morals got the better of me (damn you morals!!)...besides...at that time the grades were still in paper "grade books". Of course I never told them that, or else I'd ruin ot for the next guy.
All of these jobs are cush compared to the 7th level of hell that was my first IT job. I worked for a local school district doing "PC Tech" type work. This doesn't sound all that bad right? Wrong, the majority of my time was spent fixing problems that students purposly created. Rich little snobby bastards had nothing better to do then stick gum in floppy drives or shove pencils into power supply fans. Of course the students never had to pay for the damage they created, it came out of MY budget. And then there was the politics. I've never met a bigger group of scumbags then those who called themselves Principal. They always want the latest and greatest, but never want to fork over a dime. Additionaly for some reason it was always MY fault that the worthless software that they lobbied the Superintendent doesn't work right (of course they never consulted me on it before they began lobbying). Of course they had no problem what so ever throwing me under the bus for this. On top of all that the pay was horrid...$10 an hour. I could go on and on, but I tihnk you get the point.
I couldn't agree more. Disk Doctor for DOS was a fantastic program. Useful for everything from fixing corrupt files to editing "saved game" files. Once Norton was taken over by Symantec, it was all down hill from there. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've had to remove Norton Internet Security from people's systems because it was completely killing system performance.
I doubt any/. have ever played this game, but it was my first game experience back in the early 80's. Zeal was a text adventure game we used to play on my dad's IBM Sr. Partner 808886. It was real time, so if you stood still for too long you could get attacked. It also required a vast amount of memorization since you couldn't actually "see" where you were. A great game, I've never played anything like it since.
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It's simply because they don't know the exact mass of Vesta, and therefore don't know exactly the gravitational pull of Vesta. After they are better able to determine the mass (and gravity) of Vesta, they will begin to move Dawn into a closer orbit based upon the gravitational pull.
I finish every game that I buy. Since my time is so limited these days (kids, work, etc.), I'm very particular about the games that I purchase. I know what genres I like, I know the style that suits me, so I only buy those games. Now, that being said, gone are the days when I could power through a game in a weekend, stopping only to eat and evacuate. Nowadays, it may take me a solid month to complete that same game, but I will finish it.
I currently work in one of these Kansas City area limestone caves. My company runs a datacenter/colo here and we don't run into this problem of dust playing merry hell with the drive arrays. The solution...paint the ceiling and install ceiling tiles to create a "normal" room. No rocks, no dust, just a clean and efficient datacenter.
The answer sort of lies in what your goals are and what the position requires you to do. Personal Anecdote: I started off as a lowly PC tech in the IT industry back in the 90's. After working several years in the field, I moved on to another company doing basically the same job, but with opportunity to advance. After a few years, I was given a Tech Lead position. This was great, but the company wasn't doing so hot so I left to work at a tax company (rhymes with clock). Not soon after joining that company I was basically forced into a management position and I hated it. I didn't hate it because it was management, I hated it because the company forced me to treat my employees like dirt and my director was actually insulted by my tech knowledge and I was barred from using it. I decided to look for a new job and because of my tech and management experience I got another Tech Management position...this one I loved. The company totally embraced my knowledge and experience and allowed me to not just be a boss, but also a mentor and resource for my team. Without that previous management experience though I would never have been able to get the job. Yeah, it sucked for a while, but in the end it was totally worth it.
Zyll was my first foray into text adventure games. I remember spending hours at my dad's IBM Sr. Partner staring at the black and green screen trying to figure out where the three items were. I still keep a copy of DOSBox around just in case I want to fire up Zyll again. Such a great game.
I'm really glad to see that they are finally coming out with a new MechWarrior game. Being a veteran of all the previous iterations, I've been longing for a new one for quite some time. The fact that they are re-releasing 4 for free is also very good news. 4 was certainly not my favorite, but it definitely gives me an excuse to ignore my family for awhile until the new game is released.
I'm an iPhone user as well (company provided) and I really think this iPhone failure rate being better than BB is total bunk. I've worked at a very large corporation were all execs and managers had BBs. On average, we had to replace a BB maybe once or twice a week (out of approx 1000 in circ.). Fast forward to today, and in a small company with 4 employees using iPhones (myself included) every single one of them has had to be replaced since we started using them 9 months ago. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but that's a 100% failure rate for the original 4 phones in less than 9 months. I'm no BB fan either, but something just doesn't seem right...
BubbleMod was/is the single best mod I've ever had the pleasure of playing. It brought a certain extra amount of fun to an otherwise worn out HL. Eggplant, if you are out there, love ya man, some of the most fun I've ever had in gaming. I don't know how popular it ended up, but being involved in that community really rekindled my love for the FPS.
Ah, to have been so lucky, all the machines were ontop of the desks. Honestly though, at least once a month I had a knock on my office door (office..right..it was actually the server room) from a student who was either willing to exchange money or "favors" if I would change their grades. I never followed through, morals got the better of me (damn you morals!!)...besides...at that time the grades were still in paper "grade books". Of course I never told them that, or else I'd ruin ot for the next guy.
All of these jobs are cush compared to the 7th level of hell that was my first IT job. I worked for a local school district doing "PC Tech" type work. This doesn't sound all that bad right? Wrong, the majority of my time was spent fixing problems that students purposly created. Rich little snobby bastards had nothing better to do then stick gum in floppy drives or shove pencils into power supply fans. Of course the students never had to pay for the damage they created, it came out of MY budget. And then there was the politics. I've never met a bigger group of scumbags then those who called themselves Principal. They always want the latest and greatest, but never want to fork over a dime. Additionaly for some reason it was always MY fault that the worthless software that they lobbied the Superintendent doesn't work right (of course they never consulted me on it before they began lobbying). Of course they had no problem what so ever throwing me under the bus for this. On top of all that the pay was horrid...$10 an hour. I could go on and on, but I tihnk you get the point.
You are 100% correct. It's been so long...my memory is so hazy from that time...a simpler time it was then....
I couldn't agree more. Disk Doctor for DOS was a fantastic program. Useful for everything from fixing corrupt files to editing "saved game" files. Once Norton was taken over by Symantec, it was all down hill from there. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've had to remove Norton Internet Security from people's systems because it was completely killing system performance.
I doubt any /. have ever played this game, but it was my first game experience back in the early 80's. Zeal was a text adventure game we used to play on my dad's IBM Sr. Partner 808886. It was real time, so if you stood still for too long you could get attacked. It also required a vast amount of memorization since you couldn't actually "see" where you were. A great game, I've never played anything like it since.