Steve Ballmer: Windows! Windows! Windows! But they'd better have the proper licenses or I'll come after them with everything I've got!
Linus Torvalds: Unless they submit small patches that I can properly analyze, none of the alien code is going to make it into the kernel.
Alan Cox: The aliens can send the patches to me and I'll add them to the ac prepatch tree.
Jean Louis-Gassé: We ported BeOS to the x86; with that experience under our belts I'm sure we can port it to an alien architecture in under three months.
An interesting site, but rather like a soup bowl: wide and shallow. The list itself and its ordering are interesting, but the text accompanying the individual mentions is really just fluff.
More than one person was hanged in England for being the notorious Jack the Ripper, but no one knows for sure if they ever got the person who did the crimes. (Insert favourite conspiracy theory here.) I wonder if there's any DNA floating around from that time to prove anything now?
The PBS series NOVA has played a couple of times in the last two years a documentary on this same subject. They had DNA tested from Anna Anderson (who claimed to be Anastasia), Prince Charles of Britain (who is related to the Romanov family), and a woman who was a factory worker from Eastern Europe and long suspected of being the person who later claimed to be Anastasia.
The conclusion: The DNA ruled out Anna Anderson being Anastasia, and provided a very good match to the factory worker.
Unfortunately, the NOVA website does not appear to have a link to this episode.
Very few things are complete failures. In fact, the missions were successul in several areas: building the crafts, launching them, and getting them to Mars. A lot better than what we could do 50 years ago!
I htink NASA has learned quite a bit from these missions: how to build (or, perhaps, not to build) lower cost space vehicles; as well as ongoing research into communications, materials, mission handling, etc. Plus the importance of using standard units when communicating between geographically separate teams.
Making mistakes is not the problem. Failures in and of themselves are not problems. It is only when we fail to learn from mistakes and failures that we have a problem. I hope NASA will use the knowledge gained from these unsuccessful missions to launch successful ones in the future.
I nominate the great but unknown inventor Reginald Fessenden, 18xx-19xx. Perhaps his greatest contribution was the invention of amplitude modulation, which made it possible to transmit voice over radio. All Marconi accomplished was the transmission Morse code over the airwaves. Fessenden made the first radio broadcast on December 24, 1906 (see http://members.aol.com/jeff560/chrono1.htm for more information about this broadcast.)
Reginald Fessenden also invented SONAR for "seeing" objects underwater.
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Linus Torvalds: Unless they submit small patches that I can properly analyze, none of the alien code is going to make it into the kernel.
Alan Cox: The aliens can send the patches to me and I'll add them to the ac prepatch tree.
Jean Louis-Gassé: We ported BeOS to the x86; with that experience under our belts I'm sure we can port it to an alien architecture in under three months.
An interesting site, but rather like a soup bowl: wide and shallow. The list itself and its ordering are interesting, but the text accompanying the individual mentions is really just fluff.
More than one person was hanged in England for being the notorious Jack the Ripper, but no one knows for sure if they ever got the person who did the crimes. (Insert favourite conspiracy theory here.) I wonder if there's any DNA floating around from that time to prove anything now?
The conclusion: The DNA ruled out Anna Anderson being Anastasia, and provided a very good match to the factory worker.
Unfortunately, the NOVA website does not appear to have a link to this episode.
A book I have on the making of 2001 indicates the only serious accident on the film occurred when a technician fell on the HAL set and broke his back.
I htink NASA has learned quite a bit from these missions: how to build (or, perhaps, not to build) lower cost space vehicles; as well as ongoing research into communications, materials, mission handling, etc. Plus the importance of using standard units when communicating between geographically separate teams.
Making mistakes is not the problem. Failures in and of themselves are not problems. It is only when we fail to learn from mistakes and failures that we have a problem. I hope NASA will use the knowledge gained from these unsuccessful missions to launch successful ones in the future.
I nominate the great but unknown inventor Reginald Fessenden, 18xx-19xx. Perhaps his greatest contribution was the invention of amplitude modulation, which made it possible to transmit voice over radio. All Marconi accomplished was the transmission Morse code over the airwaves. Fessenden made the first radio broadcast on December 24, 1906 (see http://members.aol.com/jeff560/chrono1.htm for more information about this broadcast.)
Reginald Fessenden also invented SONAR for "seeing" objects underwater.