"The lightweight plastic cover on one of Discovery's cockpit windows came loose while the spaceship was on the launch pad, falling more than 60 feet and striking a bulge in the fuselage, said Stephanie Stilson, the NASA manager in charge of Discovery's launch preparations. No one knows why the cover -- which was held in place with tape -- fell off, she said. "
Maybe it fell of because IT WAS HELD ON WITH TAPE!
"The Discovery astronauts will fly with five prototype methods to repair the heat-resistant tiles that line the orbiter's bottom and the hard reinforced carbon-carbon material used for the nose and leading edges of the wings, which were damaged on the Columbia. Although three will be tested in space, none of the options are yet certified to repair actual damage."
They refer to the crbon and tile repair as "testing" during the spacewalk - dunno if they're doing it on actual materials, testbeds, or what.
As for the "stay up there" option - from Space.com (but I saw similar descriptions elsewhere as well)...
"NASA and ISS managers have developed an emergency plan in the event Discovery suffers substantial damage and is unable to return the STS-114 crew back to Earth safely. In that event, the astronauts would take shelter aboard the ISS until Atlantis could be sent up to retrieve them under a plan known as Contingency Shuttle Crew Support (CSCS). "Right now, all the equipment and supplies aboard will allow us to support a full crew up to a month and a half, approximately," Krikalev told reporters. Phillips added that the space station has plenty of food, water and oxygen to support nine people for a limited contingency period. "That is not to say we take a potential [CSCS] situation lightly," Phillips said. "We would not take it lightly, that would not be a good day.""
1. They will be spacewalking to test exterior repair, if it works, they can fix it on orbit.
2. They're going to be visiting the station - this mission is reportedly rigged so that if something really bad is found, the can stay on station until another shuttle can be launched.
There's a NYT writer who's been driving a Honda FCX in Fairfield CT - when he ran out of fuel, the car had to go in a trailer to Latham NY (Albany) to the nearest usable hydrogen filling station.
The number of books you own increases as time passes. The number of books you'll have time to read during the rest of your life decreases. At some point in your life, these two lines cross. Meaning there is a point in your life when after that, you won't live long enough to read all the books you have.
"My statement to Jeff was that the PodBuddy would likely sell about five times as many units as his TransPod."
Hype and bluff. Sliver-tongued as ever.
"And, that, if we can't build it, then he should build it. After all, he's the one using a patent to keep a better, more desirable competitive product off the market."
Erm, he's exercising his rights under the patent granted. Just like you would. And a patent search could have saved you all of this nonsense.
"It seems to make sense to just let the guy have it, if he's so scared of the PodBuddy being sold. I would rather do that than have thousands of our customers disappointed, and, see such a terrific product just die."
It's not your call, Jack. He's the one with the rights, you didn't do your homework. This inching your toe right up to the name-calling line is typical.
Their straight-faced answer is likely that it was a business/ market decision. I could look it up, but from a business standpoint, are we to believe that the Lotus Domino market is larger than the Unix/Linux market and merits continued support cuz they'll make (enough) money on it?
The issue at hand is the use of B&W print paper, and its potential demise. I'm still getting over the loss of Kodachrome II - and now K25 is gone! If we're talking B&W fine-grain film and standard 11x14 or 16x20 enlargements, digital has a long way to go. Working in a darkroom, there is no digital 'scanning' done. it's analog end-to-end.
Now, if you're talking over the counter snapshots - there is still a benefit to analog - I've shot my workhorse Pentax analog SLR system side by side my digital camera - and there are things you can get out of an original transparency or slide to a print in a darkroom that you cannot do in digital - you have one shot from that digital file - near zero latitude as compared to most slow or medium speed films, and nowhere near the ability in a darkroom - I can recover light and shadows from analog film that no matter how many times you adjust sliders in photoshop - if it's not in that original file, you'll never get it back. My first 'digital only' trip to Acadia taught me that.
Even the 6 MP CMOS cameras are apparently only capable of 3/4 of the info that is on a 35 mm frame - and we're not even considering larger format film which is out of the question for digital.
it was a manager, not a clerk, just stand your ground with them, keep your voice low and tell them they have no legal grounds and they play the law card
so why do you equate "physisican" and "ML asshole"?
A few months ago, the local Staples - their self-serve machines were all down - refused to copy a *tele-facsimile* of a *copy* of a property record of my house from our local town hall. "It's a legal document. We can't copy it." I had them produce their printed rules on this. While lots of other things were mentioned, "legal documents" were not blanket excluded. They still refused. Ditto the manager, and it was leave or they would call the police.
Seriously - Claris Home Page, Carbonized or Cocoa'd, with some updating changes (for image types, tags, blogging support etc) running on OSX would be very very sweet.
- The templates in.mac and the iApps are over-simple; - Pages, while wonderful for a lot of things, puts out ransom-note like HTML; - Mozilla composer (and NVU) are button-mad overkill so far - but show promise.
Apple could own this if they felt like it. They used to. They should again.
I cringe ever time the Dell TV ads push some insanely cheap package, then up blinks and chimes the "Intel Inside" animation with "Celeron" across the bottom of it. "Dell products feature Intel Celeron processors!" says the cheery voice. "Get away with" is more like it.
I doubt Apple would want to see their OSXi running on them, so they'll have to push the processor line up a notch. Though there is a good joke commercial in there - like the one where Lance Armstrong comes back to his room on the Teutels - Dad, Paulie and Mikey - turning his gazillion dollar road bike into a chopper... Steve walks in to see Paulie (Otellini) & Mikey (Dell) with pretty much the same speechless look on his face...
That'll solve several problems by very different means, depending on what you mix it with. Mix it with sausage, and you're cured. Mix it with charcoal & sulfur, and you'll have a blast.
How about you get thru the current Mars & Cassini missions and GET THE SHUTTLE BACK UP before you sack the leaders of those three programs - two of which are very big loud & public successes (in NASA-land anyway) and the third had better be or else you'll be looking at barely enough authorization funds to make with two large-ish slingshots.
I've got a stable of macs and a stable of PCs, all 5 years old or less. The Macs run as advertised. The PCs are hell to keep running under 98SE and XP. ScanDisk and BIOS problems are two of the top three problems, along with supposed plug and play hardware not properly registering / installing. Then there's the weekly spyware & virus scans.
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"The lightweight plastic cover on one of Discovery's cockpit windows came loose while the spaceship was on the launch pad, falling more than 60 feet and striking a bulge in the fuselage, said Stephanie Stilson, the NASA manager in charge of Discovery's launch preparations. No one knows why the cover -- which was held in place with tape -- fell off, she said. "
Maybe it fell of because IT WAS HELD ON WITH TAPE!
Who's in charge over there - Red Green?
from NYT...
"The Discovery astronauts will fly with five prototype methods to repair the heat-resistant tiles that line the orbiter's bottom and the hard reinforced carbon-carbon material used for the nose and leading edges of the wings, which were damaged on the Columbia. Although three will be tested in space, none of the options are yet certified to repair actual damage."
They refer to the crbon and tile repair as "testing" during the spacewalk - dunno if they're doing it on actual materials, testbeds, or what.
As for the "stay up there" option - from Space.com (but I saw similar descriptions elsewhere as well)...
"NASA and ISS managers have developed an emergency plan in the event Discovery suffers substantial damage and is unable to return the STS-114 crew back to Earth safely. In that event, the astronauts would take shelter aboard the ISS until Atlantis could be sent up to retrieve them under a plan known as Contingency Shuttle Crew Support (CSCS).
"Right now, all the equipment and supplies aboard will allow us to support a full crew up to a month and a half, approximately," Krikalev told reporters.
Phillips added that the space station has plenty of food, water and oxygen to support nine people for a limited contingency period.
"That is not to say we take a potential [CSCS] situation lightly," Phillips said. "We would not take it lightly, that would not be a good day.""
1. They will be spacewalking to test exterior repair, if it works, they can fix it on orbit.
2. They're going to be visiting the station - this mission is reportedly rigged so that if something really bad is found, the can stay on station until another shuttle can be launched.
There's a NYT writer who's been driving a Honda FCX in Fairfield CT - when he ran out of fuel, the car had to go in a trailer to Latham NY (Albany) to the nearest usable hydrogen filling station.
This guy's got a kool-aid drip.
but it's a start.
The number of books you own increases as time passes.
The number of books you'll have time to read during the rest of your life decreases.
At some point in your life, these two lines cross.
Meaning there is a point in your life when after that, you won't live long enough to read all the books you have.
Hype and bluff. Sliver-tongued as ever.
"And, that, if we can't build it, then he should build it. After all, he's the one using a patent to keep a better, more desirable competitive product off the market."
Erm, he's exercising his rights under the patent granted. Just like you would. And a patent search could have saved you all of this nonsense.
"It seems to make sense to just let the guy have it, if he's so scared of the PodBuddy being sold. I would rather do that than have thousands of our customers disappointed, and, see such a terrific product just die."
It's not your call, Jack. He's the one with the rights, you didn't do your homework. This inching your toe right up to the name-calling line is typical.
I thought it was my botany prof who first said it one night while were were staggering home after a hops lab.
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Their straight-faced answer is likely that it was a business/ market decision. I could look it up, but from a business standpoint, are we to believe that the Lotus Domino market is larger than the Unix/Linux market and merits continued support cuz they'll make (enough) money on it?
The issue at hand is the use of B&W print paper, and its potential demise.
I'm still getting over the loss of Kodachrome II - and now K25 is gone!
If we're talking B&W fine-grain film and standard 11x14 or 16x20 enlargements, digital has a long way to go.
Working in a darkroom, there is no digital 'scanning' done. it's analog end-to-end.
Now, if you're talking over the counter snapshots - there is still a benefit to analog - I've shot my workhorse Pentax analog SLR system side by side my digital camera - and there are things you can get out of an original transparency or slide to a print in a darkroom that you cannot do in digital - you have one shot from that digital file - near zero latitude as compared to most slow or medium speed films, and nowhere near the ability in a darkroom - I can recover light and shadows from analog film that no matter how many times you adjust sliders in photoshop - if it's not in that original file, you'll never get it back. My first 'digital only' trip to Acadia taught me that.
Even the 6 MP CMOS cameras are apparently only capable of 3/4 of the info that is on a 35 mm frame - and we're not even considering larger format film which is out of the question for digital.
... for the lovely how-do-you-do.
it was a manager, not a clerk, just stand your ground with them, keep your voice low and tell them they have no legal grounds and they play the law card
so why do you equate "physisican" and "ML asshole"?
.. not good for deed recoreds and such.
i already have all that stuff.
A few months ago, the local Staples - their self-serve machines were all down - refused to copy a *tele-facsimile* of a *copy* of a property record of my house from our local town hall. "It's a legal document. We can't copy it." I had them produce their printed rules on this. While lots of other things were mentioned, "legal documents" were not blanket excluded. They still refused. Ditto the manager, and it was leave or they would call the police.
Seriously - Claris Home Page, Carbonized or Cocoa'd, with some updating changes (for image types, tags, blogging support etc) running on OSX would be very very sweet.
.mac and the iApps are over-simple;
- The templates in
- Pages, while wonderful for a lot of things, puts out ransom-note like HTML;
- Mozilla composer (and NVU) are button-mad overkill so far - but show promise.
Apple could own this if they felt like it. They used to. They should again.
I cringe ever time the Dell TV ads push some insanely cheap package, then up blinks and chimes the "Intel Inside" animation with "Celeron" across the bottom of it. "Dell products feature Intel Celeron processors!" says the cheery voice. "Get away with" is more like it.
I doubt Apple would want to see their OSXi running on them, so they'll have to push the processor line up a notch. Though there is a good joke commercial in there - like the one where Lance Armstrong comes back to his room on the Teutels - Dad, Paulie and Mikey - turning his gazillion dollar road bike into a chopper... Steve walks in to see Paulie (Otellini) & Mikey (Dell) with pretty much the same speechless look on his face...
So instead of selling Office for PC they sell Office:Mac - they make their money either way.
Must be some ex-Apple. The T-Shirts are available now.
At cost no less! Oh.
Blast. So much for making money.
That'll solve several problems by very different means, depending on what you mix it with.
Mix it with sausage, and you're cured.
Mix it with charcoal & sulfur, and you'll have a blast.
How about you get thru the current Mars & Cassini missions and GET THE SHUTTLE BACK UP before you sack the leaders of those three programs - two of which are very big loud & public successes (in NASA-land anyway) and the third had better be or else you'll be looking at barely enough authorization funds to make with two large-ish slingshots.
I've got a stable of macs and a stable of PCs, all 5 years old or less. The Macs run as advertised. The PCs are hell to keep running under 98SE and XP. ScanDisk and BIOS problems are two of the top three problems, along with supposed plug and play hardware not properly registering / installing. Then there's the weekly spyware & virus scans.
Will we have to have those insufferable little stickers all over our Macs?
Will we be entering "BIOS Hell" & "ScanDisk Hell"?
If so I'll be buying the last G4 iBook to roll off the line, assuring at least 4 years (proven life span) of known-but-teeny-tiny-problems goodness.
So the "upside" (legit trading) is the "other" side?
The the "downside" (illegal trading) is the original side?