Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention. Answer as quickly as you can.
In a magazine you come across a full-page photo of a nude girl. You show the picture to your husband. He likes it and hangs it on the wall. The girl is lying on a bearskin rug.
I often feel the same way, as I'm sure, do many other geeks. Your post brought to mind a quote that I thought I'd share with you...
"And tomorrow? Settlements on the Moon, voyages to Mars, scientific stations on the asteroids, contact with other civilizations... Let us not grieve that we shall not participate in distant planetary expeditions. We shall not envy the people of the future. Of course they are lucky and things about which we can only dream will be ordinary for them. But great happiness has come our way, too, the happiness of the first steps in space. Let those who follow us envy this our happiness."
BoingBoing recently posted a link to a timeline which describes, on a minute by minute basis, the efforts taken to resolve a critical security bug found within Mozilla. Time to fix between bug report and new Mozilla version? 31 hours.
I'd have to disagree with you. In the time the ISS has been in orbit, there was a major issue with the software that endangered the entire mission. After a module had been added to the structure, the ISS software was not updated with the new weight and center of gravity for the structure, causing a near-miss with a piece of space debris. Check NASA Watch for more information, specifically the letter from Sensenbrenner, the ranking chair of the Committee on Science, to Dan Goldin.
Other systems on the ISS are apparently flawed also. Astronauts have reported many problems with the systems designed to do inventory management, waste disposal, etc..
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Mmm, Nestlé. This can only mean one thing.. chocolate covered BRAAAAAIINS!
I appreciate the sincerity of your response, but the joke seems to have missed its target. Go out, rent Blade Runner, and read it again :)
Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention. Answer as quickly as you can.
In a magazine you come across a full-page photo of a nude girl. You show the picture to your husband. He likes it and hangs it on the wall. The girl is lying on a bearskin rug.
How do you react?
"And tomorrow? Settlements on the Moon, voyages to Mars, scientific stations on the asteroids, contact with other civilizations... Let us not grieve that we shall not participate in distant planetary expeditions. We shall not envy the people of the future. Of course they are lucky and things about which we can only dream will be ordinary for them. But great happiness has come our way, too, the happiness of the first steps in space. Let those who follow us envy this our happiness."
Yuri Gagarin, USSR
BoingBoing recently posted a link to a timeline which describes, on a minute by minute basis, the efforts taken to resolve a critical security bug found within Mozilla. Time to fix between bug report and new Mozilla version? 31 hours.
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Here's the link to the story on BB: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/15/mozilla_bugs
The actual link to the timeline is located here: http://www.sacarny.com/blog/index.php?p=104
This is admittedly only a single example, but hopefully it's a start toward providing the 'hard evidence' which you're looking for.
Name it Eldred.
I'd have to disagree with you. In the time the ISS has been in orbit, there was a major issue with the software that endangered the entire mission. After a module had been added to the structure, the ISS software was not updated with the new weight and center of gravity for the structure, causing a near-miss with a piece of space debris. Check NASA Watch for more information, specifically the letter from Sensenbrenner, the ranking chair of the Committee on Science, to Dan Goldin.
Other systems on the ISS are apparently flawed also. Astronauts have reported many problems with the systems designed to do inventory management, waste disposal, etc..