Hmm. How about a GPS that leads you to turn onto a railroad track in the dark, followed by the LIGHT at said crossing turning red due to an ONCOMMING TRAIN shutting down your engine...
that this is a joke. In 1987, I graduated Cooper Union, I worked at Citibank in Funds Transfer and I was programming in QUEL on a Commercial Ingres system. Having learned both relational algebra and calculus in school, I was pleased to be able to use the more expressive calculus. Alas, it was not meant to be. Citi started cutting over to Oracle. In then left. A few years (and jobs) later I started working with Sybase. In SQL. It took me weeks to understand how to use the algebra again. We'd go a long way if this post were NOT a joke.
Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, the Saturn V blueprints have not been lost. They are kept at Marshall Space Flight Center on microfilm. The Federal Archives in East Point, GA also has 2900 cubic feet of Saturn documents. Rocketdyne has in its archives dozens of volumes from its Knowledge Retention Program. This effort was initiated in the late '60s to document every facet of F-1 and J-2 engine production to assist in any future re-start.
The problem in re-creating the Saturn V is not finding the drawings, it is finding vendors who can supply mid-1960's vintage hardware (like guidance system components), and the fact that the launch pads and VAB have been converted to Space Shuttle use, so you have no place to launch from.
By the time you redesign to accommodate available hardware and re-modify the launch pads, you may as well have started from scratch with a clean sheet design.
They're five years old. Mission planning has to be at least five years. That means the technology on board has to be at LEAST 10 years old. Do you remember how most people connected to the internet in 1999? What do you expect?
Who cares? Adblock is primarily used to speed up the load process. But NOTHING loads slow in Chrome. I use it exclusively. So far, only three problems: http://www.nylottery.org/index.php loads badly, gotomypc and citrix access to work have issues. Other than than, I've completely replaced IE and FF at home.
Yeah, well pages load so fast in this thing, you'll think you are on speed. For example, I can romp through a Picassa album at a rate of three pictures per second.
Put simply, why is an American with African heritage an African American, when a white American with European heritage is simply American? Because you're wrong. See the Italian Americans at the Columbus Day parade, the Irish Americans at the St. Patrick's Day parade, etc...
Then again, maybe its a NYC thing - in other areas where ethnicity is not as varied, maybe there is no need/desire to subculture yourself
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Drive.Open();
@Platters = Drive.Remove()
Pieces = map {crack in two} map {apply orbital sander} @Platters;
ForEach( Piece, Pieces)
{
If( Today + 1 == garbageDay() )
{
push @garbage, pop @pieces
}
sleep 1 day
}
I leave garbage collection as a separate function...
In theory, we'll be so pissed off that we can't fish that we'll do something about global warming that will save them.
so we wait until they drown and then fish?
Unless closed-source schmucks start mucking with it. Helloooooo. QA? Testing? ANYONE?
Hmm. How about a GPS that leads you to turn onto a railroad track in the dark, followed by the LIGHT at said crossing turning red due to an ONCOMMING TRAIN shutting down your engine...
that this is a joke. In 1987, I graduated Cooper Union, I worked at Citibank in Funds Transfer and I was programming in QUEL on a Commercial Ingres system. Having learned both relational algebra and calculus in school, I was pleased to be able to use the more expressive calculus. Alas, it was not meant to be. Citi started cutting over to Oracle. In then left. A few years (and jobs) later I started working with Sybase. In SQL. It took me weeks to understand how to use the algebra again. We'd go a long way if this post were NOT a joke.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/space/controversy/
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SATURN V PLANS
Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, the Saturn V blueprints have not been lost. They are kept at Marshall Space Flight Center on microfilm. The Federal Archives in East Point, GA also has 2900 cubic feet of Saturn documents. Rocketdyne has in its archives dozens of volumes from its Knowledge Retention Program. This effort was initiated in the late '60s to document every facet of F-1 and J-2 engine production to assist in any future re-start.
The problem in re-creating the Saturn V is not finding the drawings, it is finding vendors who can supply mid-1960's vintage hardware (like guidance system components), and the fact that the launch pads and VAB have been converted to Space Shuttle use, so you have no place to launch from.
By the time you redesign to accommodate available hardware and re-modify the launch pads, you may as well have started from scratch with a clean sheet design.
If I were in anyway related to the financial industry, I wouldn't exactly be calling out anyone else for "botching" anything at this time...
LOL on that signature (even before I googled "Schwarzchild radius")
Or being indebted and stupid and working for indebted and stupid.
Here's some advice for you: The quote is:
Leave the gun; take the cannoli
No true Italian says "cannolis"
Kevin Bacon: so-so actor
Zucchini: Nice, chopped, cooked in tomato sauce
Oh. Well that explains your looks, now doesn't it. :-)
You got a badge and, more importantly, a gun. I'll just say "Yessir" and take it up with the judge later.
They're five years old. Mission planning has to be at least five years. That means the technology on board has to be at LEAST 10 years old. Do you remember how most people connected to the internet in 1999? What do you expect?
Moon,, nuclear explosion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_1999
Hell, I even had the toy:
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/merc/vmmemattel.html
Who cares? Adblock is primarily used to speed up the load process. But NOTHING loads slow in Chrome. I use it exclusively. So far, only three problems: http://www.nylottery.org/index.php loads badly, gotomypc and citrix access to work have issues. Other than than, I've completely replaced IE and FF at home.
That's how you can tell a real hockey fan in the US - we know it. Extra points if in French.
Yeah, well pages load so fast in this thing, you'll think you are on speed. For example, I can romp through a Picassa album at a rate of three pictures per second.
I've got IE7, FF 3.01 O 9.52 and Chrome side by side on a Vista machine with 4gb of memory.
On startup time alone, Chrome kicks ass.
On load of personalized google homepage, Chrome kicks more ass.
On load of gmail, Chrome kick balls by putting its foot through the ass.
Loads of various pages, with Chrome first giving the others a possible cache advantage - its not even effing close.
WTF, do you download the whole internet when you get Chrome, because it certainly FEELS like the whole internet is directly on your disk drive!
I've been programming and using computers for 25 years and I have never, ever been as blown away as I am now. It just holy mutha fast!
Then again, maybe its a NYC thing - in other areas where ethnicity is not as varied, maybe there is no need/desire to subculture yourself
Don't bother. I work in Roc Center. I walked by the store yesterday and chatted up some folks in line and in security.
People start lining up at 5:00 am, four hours before opening.
They hand out bracelets at 7:30am, one per customer for their daily allotment. The allotment is between 150 and 300, depending on who you ask.
At 8am they open the doors only for bracelet holders.
The sad thing is, if you thought enough in advance, you could have walked in anytime before Thanksgiving and just picked a few up. I did.
No, the road to hell is paved with the skulls of priests. My brother, the father, told me so.
And you feel the need to insult New Yorkers? Why?
And my fellow coders at work wonder why I keep saying that
user
is a Four Letter Word