What exactly makes a 5-segment booster's properties significantly different from a 4-segment booster with a dummy 5th segment of the same weight and shape on top? Until that fifth segment worth of propellant lights, I can't see how there can be much difference, nor how it can be much different than when the 4th segment lights, other than having a little farther to travel through the tube.
The SRBs are not the problem, it was putting the crew compartment beside them that was the problem. An Apollo-style capsule on top can use its abort rocket (that pointy thing on top of the capsule) to quickly get away from a failing booster. If it had been possible to put the boosters and ET below the shuttle, neither accident would have been fatal.
In the first accident, if it had been possible to instantly detach from the SRBs and ET, it might have been difficult for the ponderous shuttle to turn to an attitude capable of a safe landing, but that's still not the fault of using SRBs. The second accident wouldn't have happened with a capsule rocket, because the heat shield is inherently protected during launch due to its position in the middle of the stack.
I don't know how you can blame the SRBs for the second accident. The foam came from the ET. Requiring the Shuttle ET to use CFC-free foam (the amount of CFCs in one ET's worth of foam is probably infinitesimal compared to even one day's sales of spray cans and foam manufacturing) contributed to the foam problems that caused the second accident.
Maybe you should read an actual shuttle accident report sometime?
...except this isn't a "normal" launch. It's a test launch, and I'm sure they would really like to have nice clear camera views all the way up.
Still, hooray for choosing Florida as a launch site way back when. It may have a lot of clear downrange because it's along the "Dymaxion Equator", but it sucks for launch weather.
Wow... I just tried looking for it on archive.org... it's not there. Oh well, it's on my hard drive for now. I even did a quick "wget -w1 -r -nc" on it, adding the whole mess to my current assorted spidering.
I found a Wikipedia page on comma usage today that had a link to a Geocities page. THIS IS THE END, I TELL YOU, THE END! WE WON'T EVEN MAKE IT TO 2012!
I hate to disappoint you, but this has been happening at least since it was mentioned a couple of days ago... on Digg. Fortunately I got a couple of sites spidered two weeks ago before all this happened.
It's about as easy as setting up Sendmail (or whatever your favorite MTA is) to do that on a Linux box. And you don't need OS X Server to do it, if you already know how to set up Sendmail. Just set it up to only accept connections from the copier's IP address, without requiring authentication, then have it forward mail to your real server.
The difference is that you can't re-compile MSexchange on whatever Unix-like OS you prefer, even if you were willing to pay money to Redmond.
Get off my lawn, you whippersnapper! MY first computer was a Model I (except there was no "model" yet), and this looks much more like one of those. You can even put a logo on the right side of the keyboard to enhance the experience. The only thing missing is an expansion box larger than the main computer, connected by a cranky ribbon cable. And having to turn off the thing whenever the family wanted to watch channel 12 on the TV.
So he would want to work for those who do hire people who don't code in their spare time? Or would want to work for those who don't hire people who do code in their spare time? Or what?
Actually, the biggest problem will be that all the "cool kids" will know why the PSP Go sucks, and you will look like the biggest tool this side of Sears Crafstman with one of these in your hands. (At least until it's somehow permanently cracked like the battery hack on the regular PSP.)
I'm going to start calling it the "PSP STOP" myself. And that's "stop" as in "door".
If you have a song you bought on iTunes that is DRM'd, you cannot sync it except through iTunes, which will only connect to Apple hardware.
Well it's a good thing iTMS doesn't sell DRM'ed music any more, then, isn't it? And even if you did have such a file, it wouldn't matter if you could sync it anyhow, BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T PLAY.
"Write once" only means it can't be re-written. That doesn't mean that it will never degrade. For instance, PROM memory chips, programmed by burning tiny fuses on the chip, can over time "un-burn" some of their fuses. (I think this is from the old "tin whisker" problem.)
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What exactly makes a 5-segment booster's properties significantly different from a 4-segment booster with a dummy 5th segment of the same weight and shape on top? Until that fifth segment worth of propellant lights, I can't see how there can be much difference, nor how it can be much different than when the 4th segment lights, other than having a little farther to travel through the tube.
The SRBs are not the problem, it was putting the crew compartment beside them that was the problem. An Apollo-style capsule on top can use its abort rocket (that pointy thing on top of the capsule) to quickly get away from a failing booster. If it had been possible to put the boosters and ET below the shuttle, neither accident would have been fatal.
In the first accident, if it had been possible to instantly detach from the SRBs and ET, it might have been difficult for the ponderous shuttle to turn to an attitude capable of a safe landing, but that's still not the fault of using SRBs. The second accident wouldn't have happened with a capsule rocket, because the heat shield is inherently protected during launch due to its position in the middle of the stack.
I don't know how you can blame the SRBs for the second accident. The foam came from the ET. Requiring the Shuttle ET to use CFC-free foam (the amount of CFCs in one ET's worth of foam is probably infinitesimal compared to even one day's sales of spray cans and foam manufacturing) contributed to the foam problems that caused the second accident.
Maybe you should read an actual shuttle accident report sometime?
...except this isn't a "normal" launch. It's a test launch, and I'm sure they would really like to have nice clear camera views all the way up.
Still, hooray for choosing Florida as a launch site way back when. It may have a lot of clear downrange because it's along the "Dymaxion Equator", but it sucks for launch weather.
Wow... I just tried looking for it on archive.org... it's not there. Oh well, it's on my hard drive for now. I even did a quick "wget -w1 -r -nc" on it, adding the whole mess to my current assorted spidering.
I found a Wikipedia page on comma usage today that had a link to a Geocities page. THIS IS THE END, I TELL YOU, THE END! WE WON'T EVEN MAKE IT TO 2012!
I hate to disappoint you, but this has been happening at least since it was mentioned a couple of days ago... on Digg. Fortunately I got a couple of sites spidered two weeks ago before all this happened.
It's about as easy as setting up Sendmail (or whatever your favorite MTA is) to do that on a Linux box. And you don't need OS X Server to do it, if you already know how to set up Sendmail. Just set it up to only accept connections from the copier's IP address, without requiring authentication, then have it forward mail to your real server.
The difference is that you can't re-compile MSexchange on whatever Unix-like OS you prefer, even if you were willing to pay money to Redmond.
Tell that to people who pull out a fake gun when robbing a bank, or when confronted by a cop.
Get off my lawn, you whippersnapper! MY first computer was a Model I (except there was no "model" yet), and this looks much more like one of those. You can even put a logo on the right side of the keyboard to enhance the experience. The only thing missing is an expansion box larger than the main computer, connected by a cranky ribbon cable. And having to turn off the thing whenever the family wanted to watch channel 12 on the TV.
I'm pretty sure I heard her say that she got the idea from "that guy with the blanket in the Charlie Brown comics".
...or you wouldn't go to a barber who doesn't cut his own... oh, wait. Let's stick with the gardener analogy.
So he would want to work for those who do hire people who don't code in their spare time? Or would want to work for those who don't hire people who do code in their spare time? Or what?
And Who's on first, right?
Actually, the biggest problem will be that all the "cool kids" will know why the PSP Go sucks, and you will look like the biggest tool this side of Sears Crafstman with one of these in your hands. (At least until it's somehow permanently cracked like the battery hack on the regular PSP.)
I'm going to start calling it the "PSP STOP" myself. And that's "stop" as in "door".
Actually the most fun problem with UMDs is that the clear plastic front piece can become detached and collapse into the back shell.
...and that's only because they bought out the competition, HD-DVD, making them go away with CASH MONEY.
Orange Soda? This is rocket science, they use Tang.
If you have a song you bought on iTunes that is DRM'd, you cannot sync it except through iTunes, which will only connect to Apple hardware.
Well it's a good thing iTMS doesn't sell DRM'ed music any more, then, isn't it? And even if you did have such a file, it wouldn't matter if you could sync it anyhow, BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T PLAY.
Then the Interwebs Standards Implementors Forum needs to revoke their interweb browsler licenses.
I'm glad Microsoft isn't locking down their customers that way. Oh, wait.
"Write once" only means it can't be re-written. That doesn't mean that it will never degrade. For instance, PROM memory chips, programmed by burning tiny fuses on the chip, can over time "un-burn" some of their fuses. (I think this is from the old "tin whisker" problem.)
Let's see someone try that with the Xbox 360 boot ROM.
In Soviet Palm, application must fill out forms and wait for bureaucracy to submit you!
What I want to know is how many bits there are in the first.kilometer and the third.kilometer.
We need more whistle blowers out there.
Did anyone else parse this first as "whistle bowlers"?
I can tell from the pixels. And from having seen a lot of photo-altered models in my time.