Wasn't DIRECT that maximized the usage of STS and Ares was a clean sheet design (and that's why it was late, overbudget, etc, etc)?
Yes to DIRECT. DIRECT was a useful compromise that satisfied no one but that everyone could grudgingly accept. Ares was a clean-sheet design with one overbudget rocket that would crash into the earth without using thrust from the payload and another that would be the equivalent of building the Pyramids to construct and operate. Ares did not make sense in 2006, was completely out-of-the-question by the 2008 near collapse.
The DIRECT plan was a response to the dead end Ares I / Ares V idea with the goal of maintaining the institutional knowledge of NASA. The DIRECT team made plenty of political assumptions. The rocket was always a compromise, but one that used the best parts of what had gone before and offered a lot of flexibility if mission plans were to change. The idea made a lot of sense in 2006, with the planned demise of the space shuttle four years in the future.
A return to the moon went out with the near collapse of the economy. Then two more years passed. The current bill was crafted (I have no idea by whom) so that only the DIRECT idea could fulfill the requirements.
If they do not want to do it the way DIRECT suggests, I hope they come up with either a) a mission and the perfect system to fulfill the mission, or b) design something as flexible as DIRECT. Option b) will mean that most of the Florida army will be dissipated, and there still will be no specific mission.
I think NASA would rather go under than make anything like DIRECT suggested. It might just happen.
The cow-bugs will get swept up into a whirlwind. Kip will go try to rustle them up to win Amy's love. The plot will lead to the Martian's lair in Olympus Mons where it is found that Amy's parents have traded a huge diamond for the the Martian's land. The Martians respect Kip for being able to ride a flying cow-bug and decide to leave Mars with their riches.
I have taught BASIC only a year or so ago, to a top-class prep-school student, in a single one-to-one session, in a single afternoon. That was from *zero* programming knowledge (but a keen mind), exclusively on paper and the next day they [They were? Don't you mean, he was?] writing (working) games and hadn't required a single extra tool, library, download, reference or command-lookup...
...that puts the final nail in the/. coffin. I usually feel that if someone doesn't like a story, they should just not read it. In this case, the feeling is more like, if this is the best that the editors can do, then there is truly nothing more to discuss. There is no value here, and this story seems emblematic of the increase rate of decrease in quality over the last several years.
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I was kind of hoping that they would have seen the backs of their heads (whether wearing cowboy hats or not).
I guess no one cares that openid is gone as a login option. I will not mention it, then.
How would pretty much everyone pronounce the name the way it is?
Whatever the plan is, we need to do it while Bruce Willis is still young and vigorous.
Dupe.
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Wasn't DIRECT that maximized the usage of STS and Ares was a clean sheet design (and that's why it was late, overbudget, etc, etc)?
Yes to DIRECT. DIRECT was a useful compromise that satisfied no one but that everyone could grudgingly accept. Ares was a clean-sheet design with one overbudget rocket that would crash into the earth without using thrust from the payload and another that would be the equivalent of building the Pyramids to construct and operate. Ares did not make sense in 2006, was completely out-of-the-question by the 2008 near collapse.
The DIRECT plan was a response to the dead end Ares I / Ares V idea with the goal of maintaining the institutional knowledge of NASA. The DIRECT team made plenty of political assumptions. The rocket was always a compromise, but one that used the best parts of what had gone before and offered a lot of flexibility if mission plans were to change. The idea made a lot of sense in 2006, with the planned demise of the space shuttle four years in the future.
A return to the moon went out with the near collapse of the economy. Then two more years passed. The current bill was crafted (I have no idea by whom) so that only the DIRECT idea could fulfill the requirements.
If they do not want to do it the way DIRECT suggests, I hope they come up with either a) a mission and the perfect system to fulfill the mission, or b) design something as flexible as DIRECT. Option b) will mean that most of the Florida army will be dissipated, and there still will be no specific mission.
I think NASA would rather go under than make anything like DIRECT suggested. It might just happen.
The cow-bugs will get swept up into a whirlwind. Kip will go try to rustle them up to win Amy's love. The plot will lead to the Martian's lair in Olympus Mons where it is found that Amy's parents have traded a huge diamond for the the Martian's land. The Martians respect Kip for being able to ride a flying cow-bug and decide to leave Mars with their riches.
Slashdot has not hand an Apple or cloud article in ages.
Houston, we've had a quality challenge.
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By size, do they mean volume?
in the form of a car analogy?
I have taught BASIC only a year or so ago, to a top-class prep-school student, in a single one-to-one session, in a single afternoon. That was from *zero* programming knowledge (but a keen mind), exclusively on paper and the next day they [They were? Don't you mean, he was?] writing (working) games and hadn't required a single extra tool, library, download, reference or command-lookup...
...that puts the final nail in the /. coffin. I usually feel that if someone doesn't like a story, they should just not read it. In this case, the feeling is more like, if this is the best that the editors can do, then there is truly nothing more to discuss. There is no value here, and this story seems emblematic of the increase rate of decrease in quality over the last several years.
http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/12/14/stuxnets-finnish-chinese-connection/ It takes a while to get past the popups. I wonder if there are any major problems in this author's hedgeucated guessing?
my name is peter - I just don't want to create an account right now...
Peter, I cannot stress this strongly enough: MAKE AN ACCOUNT! If you put it off and then come back later, you will get a high user id number that other members will not be able to help but use against you. if you wait, every post you write will have to be an editorial gem, or you will be discriminated against SOLELY BECAUSE OF YOUR HIGH USER ID NUMBER.
I know it's not fair, but you have been given the chance to jump in on something hot. If you sign up now, it will not be too many years until you are considered one of the pioneers!
And activities in the Aleutian Islands.
A la the "General Lee."
Maybe the military could just specify IPV6 and not act like douchebags to the salesmen that have to stop by.
Quick! To the Patent Office!
Windows only, if I recall.
I didn't know the whole history, but ancestry.com seems to make it hard to associate the source with the fact in question.
If you are just keeping track of your own bookmarks, then what you did makes sense. If you are using del.icio.us to see what other people are bookmarking, then it might be worthwhile to keep your del.icio.us account open in case something good happens.