The article did not say they were going to switch from Microsoft to Linux. The gist of it is that they will no longer dismiss open-source solutions out of hand, but will at least give it some consideration.
No, it probably won't. The reason the current FCC supports it is because the majority of low-power licensees currently are churches, and there is little doubt that that trend will continue.
Except they didn't pull that scam. They offered to reimburse him, which I think is fair. He could probably have said it cost him up to $500 and Microsoft would've paid him and we'd hear little or nothing about it, but he stupidly (he himself admits) asked for $10k.
from http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/special/landmk1.html
"The Saturn V on display at the United States Space and Rocket Center is the actual test rocket that was used in dynamic testing of the Saturn facilities at Marshall. The stages of the rocket were used to check out all the Saturn facilities at Huntsville. Although the rocket was not intended to be flown, it was a working vehicle that prepared the way for the Apollo expeditions to the moon."
"Officials from the Department of the Interior referred to the vehicle as "a unique engineering masterpiece that formed the key link in the chain that enabled Americans to travel to the moon. The success of the Saturn V made possible the success of the American space program."
"The Saturn V at the United States Space and Rocket Center was delivered by Marshall in 1969 after all three stages were taken from the Center's Dynamic Test Stand. "
"The purpose of National Historic Landmark designation is to identify and recognize nationally significant sites. ''Landmarks are chosen after careful study by the National Park Service,'' according to officials from the Department of Interior. ''They are evaluated by the National Park System Advisory Board and designated by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the Historic Sites Act of 1935 and the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.''"
"Designation as a National Historic Landmark automatically places a property in the National Register of Historic Places and extends to it special safeguards and benefits provided by Federal law. "
"It's the same thing Microsoft did with DOS: initially, they were a interpreter/compiler-only company. They got into operating systems because they needed to diversify, just like every big business did. "
The Saturn 1B kit (also called "Uprated Saturn 1" for a year) had the wooden lattice escape tower structure. It was introduced in 1967 or 68. It was the same scale as Apogee's current kits, 1/70.
The first 1/100 Saturn V kit was from Centuri
in late 1968 and is essentially the blueprint for the Apogee model. All the major features of the Centuri kit are there in the Apogee kit.
The Estes model came out over half a year later,
after Apollo 11. Vern Estes and G. Harry Stine attended the moon launch and tried to get some publicity by launching one of the prototype Estes models for network TV crews, but NASA had a slight problem with that and shut the flight down. Don't remember if they may have flown it later, off of NASA property.
Anyway, both 1/100th Apollo capsules had injection molded escape towers. That would've been really a biatch to do those things in wood, but I've heard of Polish and Czech model rocket people in the '60's doing so.
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And I bet you don't want to work, you just want to bang on your drum all day--eh?
uh, that was Todd Rundgren, not the Beatles.
kinda like the Beatles And that was, Three Dog Night, I think...;-)
Besides, I seem to remember a while back something about PKWare ceasing to be. Guess I was wrong.
PK has ceased to be, as of a few years ago, but his company lives on, for whatever that's worth. I prefer to throw my support to WinZip and Nico Mak. I paid for a license to it WAAAYYYY back when, and he's never made me pay for an upgrade (though I would if he did).
Thanks for the heads up. It was at my local mall last weekend. I saw it as they were packing it up. There were bins of toy wagon wheels, and zip ties, and a long, bumpy, twisting, downhill track for three vehicles, as if Salvadore Dali designed outdoor play equipment.
Back in '89 I wrote a hypertext browser using Windows Write (the little wordprocessor in Windows 1.0 and 2.0) files. This was for a help system for a Windows app that was to come out before Windows Help was available.
Anyway, the idea was that anyone could fire up Windows Write, type their text (with fonts and colors), add some graphics, and add some little tags (which I based loosely on a combination of SGML and Rich Text Format tags), and Voila! You'd have a colorful hypertext help file! (local files only, unfortunately)
We put it out with our networking app when Win 3.0 was introduced.
Then sometime in late '90 or '91, someone said to me... "you oughta look at this thing called WWW. They use URIs to connect files on different machines. But it's text only... maybe you could marry your app up to it..." But by then I was on to newer more mundane things. Sigh.
Palm is a very limited OS. Very good and very efficient at what it was meant to do from 1996-2000. Since late 2000 Pocket PC has pulled ahead in the "hearts and minds" department. I switched from a Palm IIIC to a HP Jornada 568 a year ago. It was a bit like going from an Apple//e to a Macintosh. For awhile I didn't know what to do with all the space, power, and graphics. Now I really don't know what I'd do without it.
It still has a good bit to go... as for hardware, I'd really like to see the tougher Tablet PC screen brought down to Pocket PC size (though that would preclude the use of any old instrument as a stylus!), and on the software side, I'd really like to have a real browser instead of IE3.0...
But still, if you really just want a PDA, you could do much worse than to buy a Palm/Handspring/Clio whatever. I wouldn't hesitate to get one if I had only limited funds.
Let's correct some glaring technical errors. The hybrids use nitrous oxide as an OXIDISER (hint- it has "oxide" right there in the name!). The solid entity is indeed the fuel. however, the fuel in this case can be solid plastic, tightly rolled up paper, even a hard salami (yes, it's been done). All that's required is that it can burn and has mass.
Engines can be used at a NAR launch if their type hasn't been discontinued. I.E. If you have a 30 year old Estes B6-4 (I have a few), you can use them at a NAR launch, since Estes still makes that type.
Of course, your example is correct. Centuri/Estes hasn't made a B14-0 in at least 20 years, therefore the NAR, generally citing liability-not performance- no longer allows them.
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Heck, you mean in well over a hundred flights over nearly 47 years, we've only lost 17 people?
I'd say that's pretty amazing!
"but as soon as Internet Explorer gets tabbed browsing and rss bookmarks natively, I'll be back)"
part two to my reply...
why does it need to be natively? Avant is the browser I now use, and I don't have to give up IE6 compatibility.
"but as soon as Internet Explorer gets tabbed browsing and rss bookmarks natively, I'll be back"
www.avantbrowser.com
or
www.maxthon.com
The article did not say they were going to switch from Microsoft to Linux. The gist of it is that they will no longer dismiss open-source solutions out of hand, but will at least give it some consideration.
No, it probably won't. The reason the current FCC supports it is because the majority of low-power licensees currently are churches, and there is little doubt that that trend will continue.
For over 30 years NASA code was available through a program called COSMIC which was administered at the University of Georgia.
http://www.cosmic.uga.edu/
In fact for awhile they operated out of one of the many buildings previously occupied by the 40 Watt Club
Since 1998 the code has been available through the Open Channel Foundation
http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/cosmic/
Except they didn't pull that scam. They offered to reimburse him, which I think is fair. He could probably have said it cost him up to $500 and Microsoft would've paid him and we'd hear little or nothing about it, but he stupidly (he himself admits) asked for $10k.
No, they built a replica to stand upright. The original Facilities Test Vehicle still lies on its side.
The Saturn in Houston, though, WAS a flight rated vehicle (however, all the Saturns on display have parts of other vehicles substituting occasionally)
from http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/special/landmk1.html
"The Saturn V on display at the United States Space and Rocket Center is the actual test rocket that was used in dynamic testing of the Saturn facilities at Marshall. The stages of the rocket were used to check out all the Saturn facilities at Huntsville. Although the rocket was not intended to be flown, it was a working vehicle that prepared the way for the Apollo expeditions to the moon."
"Officials from the Department of the Interior referred to the vehicle as "a unique engineering masterpiece that formed the key link in the chain that enabled Americans to travel to the moon. The success of the Saturn V made possible the success of the American space program."
"The Saturn V at the United States Space and Rocket Center was delivered by Marshall in 1969 after all three stages were taken from the Center's Dynamic Test Stand. "
"The purpose of National Historic Landmark designation is to identify and recognize nationally significant sites. ''Landmarks are chosen after careful study by the National Park Service,'' according to officials from the Department of Interior. ''They are evaluated by the National Park System Advisory Board and designated by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the Historic Sites Act of 1935 and the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.''"
"Designation as a National Historic Landmark automatically places a property in the National Register of Historic Places and extends to it special safeguards and benefits provided by Federal law. "
good point but take it back a little farther...
"It's the same thing Microsoft did with DOS: initially, they were a interpreter/compiler-only company. They got into operating systems because they needed to diversify, just like every big business did. "
The Saturn 1B kit (also called "Uprated Saturn 1" for a year) had the wooden lattice escape tower structure. It was introduced in 1967 or 68. It was the same scale as Apogee's current kits, 1/70.
The first 1/100 Saturn V kit was from Centuri in late 1968 and is essentially the blueprint for the Apogee model. All the major features of the Centuri kit are there in the Apogee kit.
The Estes model came out over half a year later, after Apollo 11. Vern Estes and G. Harry Stine attended the moon launch and tried to get some publicity by launching one of the prototype Estes models for network TV crews, but NASA had a slight problem with that and shut the flight down. Don't remember if they may have flown it later, off of NASA property.
Anyway, both 1/100th Apollo capsules had injection molded escape towers. That would've been really a biatch to do those things in wood, but I've heard of Polish and Czech model rocket people in the '60's doing so.
And I bet you don't want to work, you just want to bang on your drum all day--eh?
;-)
uh, that was Todd Rundgren, not the Beatles.
kinda like the Beatles
And that was, Three Dog Night, I think...
mod parent up please.
and now, some filler to get past whatever filter Slashdot has to deal with short but pithy comments.
oh? and do you have stats that show that aspx with C# would be any worse than any other solution under these conditions?
.NET data providers are available for both).
do you know precisely that that is the problem, instead of maybe a hardware problem.
do you just assume they wrote the database access for SQL Server instead of Oracle or MySQL (last I heard,
Why not just assume that maybe they just had a misinformed architect?
Besides, I seem to remember a while back something about PKWare ceasing to be. Guess I was wrong.
PK has ceased to be, as of a few years ago, but his company lives on, for whatever that's worth.
I prefer to throw my support to WinZip and Nico Mak. I paid for a license to it WAAAYYYY back when, and he's never made me pay for an upgrade (though I would if he did).
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Why we have ZIP instead of ARC
Thanks for the heads up. It was at my local mall last weekend. I saw it as they were packing it up. There were bins of toy wagon wheels, and zip ties, and a long, bumpy, twisting, downhill track for three vehicles, as if Salvadore Dali designed outdoor play equipment.
He rehashed most of the bits in the story to produce Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
Maybe that's why he didn't want Shada aired.
Back in '89 I wrote a hypertext browser using Windows Write (the little wordprocessor in Windows 1.0 and 2.0) files. This was for a help system for a Windows app that was to come out before Windows Help was available.
Anyway, the idea was that anyone could fire up Windows Write, type their text (with fonts and colors), add some graphics, and add some little tags (which I based loosely on a combination of SGML and Rich Text Format tags), and Voila! You'd have a colorful hypertext help file! (local files only, unfortunately)
We put it out with our networking app when Win 3.0 was introduced.
Then sometime in late '90 or '91, someone said to me... "you oughta look at this thing called WWW. They use URIs to connect files on different machines. But it's text only... maybe you could marry your app up to it..." But by then I was on to newer more mundane things. Sigh.
Why is a law needed to promote open source?
How about a law to promote software written by companies that don't want payment in cash but by barter?
Or how about a law to promote software written in Lisp? Or Forth?
Palm is a very limited OS. Very good and very efficient at what it was meant to do from 1996-2000. Since late 2000 Pocket PC has pulled ahead in the "hearts and minds" department. //e to a Macintosh. For awhile I didn't know what to do with all the space, power, and graphics. Now I really don't know what I'd do without it.
I switched from a Palm IIIC to a HP Jornada 568 a year ago. It was a bit like going from an Apple
It still has a good bit to go... as for hardware, I'd really like to see the tougher Tablet PC screen brought down to Pocket PC size (though that would preclude the use of any old instrument as a stylus!), and on the software side, I'd really like to have a real browser instead of IE3.0...
But still, if you really just want a PDA, you could do much worse than to buy a Palm/Handspring/Clio whatever. I wouldn't hesitate to get one if I had only limited funds.
can the images possibly be slashdotted already?
Let's correct some glaring technical errors. The hybrids use nitrous oxide as an OXIDISER (hint- it has "oxide" right there in the name!). The solid entity is indeed the fuel. however, the fuel in this case can be solid plastic, tightly rolled up paper, even a hard salami (yes, it's been done). All that's required is that it can burn and has mass.
Engines can be used at a NAR launch if their type hasn't been discontinued. I.E. If you have a 30 year old Estes B6-4 (I have a few), you can use them at a NAR launch, since Estes still makes that type.
Of course, your example is correct. Centuri/Estes hasn't made a B14-0 in at least 20 years, therefore the NAR, generally citing liability-not performance- no longer allows them.
If they aren't there, they're not going to learn anything, so attendance being up is a step in the right direction.
Counting back change? That'll take an act of Congress.
You're thinking of the "Slammer" worm, not the "Slapper" worm, which *is* a Linux worm.
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