I expect far and away the biggest reason is for recovery of the first stage of the Heavy.
Except that they will launch they Heavy from everywhere, including 39A and Vandenberg. From what I've heard so far, they're not going to do more than three Heavy launches per year from BC. And I don't think there's anything special about Boca Chica that would make it easier for a Heavy to land itself.
I'm not sure what trajectory second stages would have to take, but it I doubt it's going to take off from Boca Chica and land at Canaveral, if only because then they would have to have two sites be clear. Sure, they could set up a new site in Florida, but they would have to go through all the regulatory bullshit again to set up a new site. And launches are likely to head ESE, so they would be too far south, maybe threading the needle between Florida and Cuba. And they would still need good weather at two sites, not just one.
And that still doesn't help launches from Canaveral. They're not moving all their launches to Boca Chica, they just want more places to launch from so that they can launch more rockets total.
One more good thing about Boca Chica is that the weather is more likely to be good there. Canaveral has to deal with rain from all the tropical storms that go by, including the subset that make their way to Texas.
I'm still not quite sure I see the benefit other than the unwashed masses who use Go Daddy because of the TV ads will have a name they recognized just as much. And it says it won't include "hosting", does that just mean it won't do web site hosting, or does that mean DNS too? TFA mentions something about "100 e-mail addresses", so I guess it's going to at least include DNS.
In the meantime, I'm sticking with my Swiss registrar (joker.com) because if anyone can stop people from messing with your domain registration, it's got to be the Swiss.
They've already changed the UI three or four times since 3.x, it's time for them to branch out. Naturally Seamonkey's "Edit Page" (does anyone really use that?) would be the lowest hanging fruit to start with and blow up to ten times its original bloat. Still, I think what they are doing is at least potentially useful, unlike Edit Page.
FWIW, Mozilla Seamonkey, which is more directly descended from Netscape Communicator than Firefox, still has "Edit Page" in the File menu with a freaking accelerator key attached to it. Because so many people are constantly editing pages in their web browser that it needs to be a keystroke away. (I'm pretty sure most web servers would refuse to do anything with the "edited" page.) 99.999% of the time it's used is probably when someone meant to hit control-W to close a tab.
There are a lot of things that cause delays. For instance, it is my understanding that the payload (the 6 sats) needs to be checked before launch. The payload can say that it's not ready to launch. That's not SpaceX's fault. Weather sure isn't SpaceX's fault. Neither was the Air Force downrange radar (required to ensure that rockets aren't off-course) failing a couple of months ago. Also not SpaceX's fault is when other launches are delayed and interfere with everyone's schedules.
The Canaveral area is pretty damn busy. That's one of the reasons they're trying to get a launch center at Boca Chica in the southern tip of Texas.
And when it is their "fault", it's better for the rocket to say that something is wrong before launch and scrub, than to launch and remove all doubt that something is wrong by blowing up.
I particularly like the bit about "real-time backup". Backup to where, exactly? If it's "real-time", it's probably not to something off-line like tape, and may even be just a filesystem that keeps old versions around.
Obama is going to have no choice now but to throw all seven under the bus to avoid impeachement.
Considering that the process of impeachment makes the entire (Democrat majority) Senate the jury, with no strike-outs, I don't think he has much to worry about. Besides, if he was impeached AND kicked out (note that Clinton and Nixon were impeached but not kicked out, Nixon resigned, Clinton didn't), we'd have to have Biden be president. Now that's what I call job security.
Those pictures are not from satellite. They are aerial photographs taken by planes. Go to the middle of nowhere and you will see the (current) limits of satellite resolution.
As long as we're talking about cheap PC-based oscilloscopes, let's talk about the other important kind of cheap PC-based test equipment, the digital logic analyzer, such as this one.
Not everybody needs one of those old HP/Agilent behemoths (you know, the ones that ran Windows 2000), and in my experience they can be a pain in the ass to use, too. (Not to mention how damn heavy and huge their are.)
I recently upgraded my old DSL to Uverse (with one of the newer Motorola modems, not the 2wire modems that I hear were total crap in comparison), and they have 6rd allocations set up for their IPv4 space, using a 24-bit 6rd block. So not only can I access the v6 internet, my 6rd address block is static based on my static IPv4 address block. (At least if and until they decide to more their customer addresses into a "real" IPv6 allocation.) As I understand it, the modem itself does the 6to4 encapsulation to ATT's outbound IPv6 proxy.
So IPv6 is finally reaching at least some regular ISP customers.
People with only an IPv6 address should theoretically be able to access the IPv4 internet via a sort of v6-to-v4 NAT. It's the people who want to run servers accessed by the rest of the world who really need a real IPv4 address until that distant future when IPv6 finally becomes dominant. (Which won't be for a long while because of all the old computers out there that have either no or insufficient IPv6 support.)
I think one of the big factors of address consumption has been cell phones. They do not need to be publicly accessible from random IPv4 address, so they are prime candidates for this kind of migration.
So? RTFS. They rinse the salts and stuff out of it to keep only the carbon. Those minerals should all be in the rinse water, already partly refined. Now piss off.
The CDC says the Texas patient's history included extensive travel to Europe and the Middle East and that it is likely the infection occurred overseas. In each of the three previous U.S. deaths, the initial infection is believed to have taken place in other countries.
A spokesperson for the Treasury Department indicated that popular internet forum Slashdot, as well as Digg and 4Chan will be used as exemplars for this technology, as these have been identified as the single largest sources of snark on the interwebs since Al Gore invented it.
The Brits will now need to close up the Sarcasm Gap, but at least they have their own strategic snark reserves in the form of B3ta and The Register.
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I expect far and away the biggest reason is for recovery of the first stage of the Heavy.
Except that they will launch they Heavy from everywhere, including 39A and Vandenberg. From what I've heard so far, they're not going to do more than three Heavy launches per year from BC. And I don't think there's anything special about Boca Chica that would make it easier for a Heavy to land itself.
I'm not sure what trajectory second stages would have to take, but it I doubt it's going to take off from Boca Chica and land at Canaveral, if only because then they would have to have two sites be clear. Sure, they could set up a new site in Florida, but they would have to go through all the regulatory bullshit again to set up a new site. And launches are likely to head ESE, so they would be too far south, maybe threading the needle between Florida and Cuba. And they would still need good weather at two sites, not just one.
And that still doesn't help launches from Canaveral. They're not moving all their launches to Boca Chica, they just want more places to launch from so that they can launch more rockets total.
One more good thing about Boca Chica is that the weather is more likely to be good there. Canaveral has to deal with rain from all the tropical storms that go by, including the subset that make their way to Texas.
I'm still not quite sure I see the benefit other than the unwashed masses who use Go Daddy because of the TV ads will have a name they recognized just as much. And it says it won't include "hosting", does that just mean it won't do web site hosting, or does that mean DNS too? TFA mentions something about "100 e-mail addresses", so I guess it's going to at least include DNS.
In the meantime, I'm sticking with my Swiss registrar (joker.com) because if anyone can stop people from messing with your domain registration, it's got to be the Swiss.
Thunderbird and Seamonkey have no paid developers.
And I hope it stays that way. That's why they haven't yet been "updated" beyond the point of usability!
They've already changed the UI three or four times since 3.x, it's time for them to branch out. Naturally Seamonkey's "Edit Page" (does anyone really use that?) would be the lowest hanging fruit to start with and blow up to ten times its original bloat. Still, I think what they are doing is at least potentially useful, unlike Edit Page.
Quick, someone tell them about emacs!
FWIW, Mozilla Seamonkey, which is more directly descended from Netscape Communicator than Firefox, still has "Edit Page" in the File menu with a freaking accelerator key attached to it. Because so many people are constantly editing pages in their web browser that it needs to be a keystroke away. (I'm pretty sure most web servers would refuse to do anything with the "edited" page.) 99.999% of the time it's used is probably when someone meant to hit control-W to close a tab.
There are a lot of things that cause delays. For instance, it is my understanding that the payload (the 6 sats) needs to be checked before launch. The payload can say that it's not ready to launch. That's not SpaceX's fault. Weather sure isn't SpaceX's fault. Neither was the Air Force downrange radar (required to ensure that rockets aren't off-course) failing a couple of months ago. Also not SpaceX's fault is when other launches are delayed and interfere with everyone's schedules.
The Canaveral area is pretty damn busy. That's one of the reasons they're trying to get a launch center at Boca Chica in the southern tip of Texas.
And when it is their "fault", it's better for the rocket to say that something is wrong before launch and scrub, than to launch and remove all doubt that something is wrong by blowing up.
Yes. Because they don't want anyone else to have that data that they have gone to such effort to collect.
Or at least not without paying for it.
Oh noes! Now I won't ever be able to get a Novena laptop!
I particularly like the bit about "real-time backup". Backup to where, exactly? If it's "real-time", it's probably not to something off-line like tape, and may even be just a filesystem that keeps old versions around.
Obama is going to have no choice now but to throw all seven under the bus to avoid impeachement.
Considering that the process of impeachment makes the entire (Democrat majority) Senate the jury, with no strike-outs, I don't think he has much to worry about. Besides, if he was impeached AND kicked out (note that Clinton and Nixon were impeached but not kicked out, Nixon resigned, Clinton didn't), we'd have to have Biden be president. Now that's what I call job security.
But they would have had to give you their sharepoint password! After all, TANSTAAFL.
Or maybe YHBT. HAND. HTH.
Those pictures are not from satellite. They are aerial photographs taken by planes. Go to the middle of nowhere and you will see the (current) limits of satellite resolution.
As long as we're talking about cheap PC-based oscilloscopes, let's talk about the other important kind of cheap PC-based test equipment, the digital logic analyzer, such as this one.
Not everybody needs one of those old HP/Agilent behemoths (you know, the ones that ran Windows 2000), and in my experience they can be a pain in the ass to use, too. (Not to mention how damn heavy and huge their are.)
Does this mean I can get a lirc driver that works with an old Zenith clicker remote?
And at explaining your point.
I recently upgraded my old DSL to Uverse (with one of the newer Motorola modems, not the 2wire modems that I hear were total crap in comparison), and they have 6rd allocations set up for their IPv4 space, using a 24-bit 6rd block. So not only can I access the v6 internet, my 6rd address block is static based on my static IPv4 address block. (At least if and until they decide to more their customer addresses into a "real" IPv6 allocation.) As I understand it, the modem itself does the 6to4 encapsulation to ATT's outbound IPv6 proxy.
So IPv6 is finally reaching at least some regular ISP customers.
People with only an IPv6 address should theoretically be able to access the IPv4 internet via a sort of v6-to-v4 NAT. It's the people who want to run servers accessed by the rest of the world who really need a real IPv4 address until that distant future when IPv6 finally becomes dominant. (Which won't be for a long while because of all the old computers out there that have either no or insufficient IPv6 support.)
I think one of the big factors of address consumption has been cell phones. They do not need to be publicly accessible from random IPv4 address, so they are prime candidates for this kind of migration.
So? RTFS. They rinse the salts and stuff out of it to keep only the carbon. Those minerals should all be in the rinse water, already partly refined. Now piss off.
But doesn't he really need an Indonesia domain for "peter@kowalchuk-re.id"?
That's not the only bad way to die from donated blood.
The CDC says the Texas patient's history included extensive travel to Europe and the Middle East and that it is likely the infection occurred overseas. In each of the three previous U.S. deaths, the initial infection is believed to have taken place in other countries.
It wasn't from Texas beef.
They are also too young and inexperienced to realize just how much student loan debt they're going to end up with after 9+ years of college.
I'm failing to see where the problem is or what actually need to be fixed.
Addition of a B-ark, perhaps?
A spokesperson for the Treasury Department indicated that popular internet forum Slashdot, as well as Digg and 4Chan will be used as exemplars for this technology, as these have been identified as the single largest sources of snark on the interwebs since Al Gore invented it.
The Brits will now need to close up the Sarcasm Gap, but at least they have their own strategic snark reserves in the form of B3ta and The Register.