"Last year, physicists accurately measured for the first time how the universe is composed. They found that only 4 per cent of it was made up of visible atoms, with the rest being mysterious dark matter and dark energy - neither of which entities can be seen."
SF author Ted Sturgeon once noted that "90% of everything is crap" (he actually said "crud", but "crap" sounds better). So, according to the article, they refined the estimate to 96%. How many more digits of precision will $5B get us?
The aerodynamic pressures at mach 12, even in the thin air of 200K feet, would have caused a very rapid break-up and dispersion of the Shuttle. However, the landing gear struts are the sturdiest single pieces on the spacecraft. The surrounding framework in the wing isn't too shabby, either (has to handle aircraft-carrier-like landings). So, it would make sense that that section would hold together long enough for some telemetry to make it out as the break-up began. Question: was the tire in the same wing that got hit by the insulation on ascent?
One person already mentioned the Boeing factory. I went through the BMW factory in Greenville/Spartanburg South Carolina a few years ago and it was pretty amazing. In both cases you have to plan. At Boeing, you need to show up at the start of the day to get one of the limited spaces. BMW needs reservations a week or so ahead of time. They have a really interesting museum there, kind of a subset of the one in Munich.
VW just completed a new factory (in Germany somewhere -- doh!) where they're building the Phaeton luxury car. The factory is in a glass building and it's *designed* to be toured.
Wineries are fun, too. And you can always try a sample at the end (something Boeing, BMW, and VW have yet to try).
"Verizon's user allegedly has been swapping songs by artists including Billy Joel, Barry White, Aerosmith, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, N'Sync and Britney Spears."
All of this energy being expended over the musical equivalent of the plastic barf at Spencer Gifts!
... NOT tested in. If the product is poorly engineered, there should be no surprise at the vast number of bugs, no matter how much testing you do. Crap is crap.
Did anyone else see the irony in this, at the bottom of the article?
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From the article:
"Last year, physicists accurately measured for the first time how the universe is composed. They found that only 4 per cent of it was made up of visible atoms, with the rest being mysterious dark matter and dark energy - neither of which entities can be seen."
SF author Ted Sturgeon once noted that "90% of everything is crap" (he actually said "crud", but "crap" sounds better). So, according to the article, they refined the estimate to 96%. How many more digits of precision will $5B get us?
We were sent an email from SCO an hour ago. Our spam/virus blocking software found it had the klez32 virus attached! Isn't that nice of them?
Yes, this was ripped right out of AT&T Unix and was found in Linux after careful examination by SCO:
++i;
Note the use of the letter "i", indicating it got there via IBM.
Brings new meaning to the phrase, "Excuse me, your fly is down."
The aerodynamic pressures at mach 12, even in the thin air of 200K feet, would have caused a very rapid break-up and dispersion of the Shuttle. However, the landing gear struts are the sturdiest single pieces on the spacecraft. The surrounding framework in the wing isn't too shabby, either (has to handle aircraft-carrier-like landings). So, it would make sense that that section would hold together long enough for some telemetry to make it out as the break-up began. Question: was the tire in the same wing that got hit by the insulation on ascent?
One Disney lawyer to another: Let's shut their website down -- we'll plant a Slashdot article!
Sounds like they're pulling the old "Shared Source" == "look but don't fix^H^H^H touch" scam on them.
One person already mentioned the Boeing factory. I went through the BMW factory in Greenville/Spartanburg South Carolina a few years ago and it was pretty amazing. In both cases you have to plan. At Boeing, you need to show up at the start of the day to get one of the limited spaces. BMW needs reservations a week or so ahead of time. They have a really interesting museum there, kind of a subset of the one in Munich.
VW just completed a new factory (in Germany somewhere -- doh!) where they're building the Phaeton luxury car. The factory is in a glass building and it's *designed* to be toured.
Wineries are fun, too. And you can always try a sample at the end (something Boeing, BMW, and VW have yet to try).
From the article:
"Verizon's user allegedly has been swapping songs by artists including Billy Joel, Barry White, Aerosmith, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, N'Sync and Britney Spears."
All of this energy being expended over the musical equivalent of the plastic barf at Spencer Gifts!
Silly, it's a green toilet seat!
... NOT tested in. If the product is poorly engineered, there should be no surprise at the vast number of bugs, no matter how much testing you do. Crap is crap.
Not once did the article raise the possibility that maybe, just maybe, poor product might have something to do with lower CD sales.
Did anyone else see the irony in this, at the bottom of the article?
How will Hailstorm and Passport change the face of P2P, web services, and the Net itself?
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