Re: (my paraphrase) "build it crude, build it big, build it cheap" LEO on the Cheap "A rocket a day keeps high prices away!" The Germans figured this out, the Russians figured this out, why can't the Americans figure this out?
One point the author makes is that it's almost worth launching a inert payload just to keep the pipeline and infrastrucucture running than it is to stop and restart the process. Imagine the kind of payloads that could be waiting on standby for a free launch -- oh wait, you CAN'T because this is by definition an enabling technology.
touche'! (Sorry, I'm an American, and hence don't know how to put funny squigglies over letters. Give me credit for realizing there was one needed...)
I had overlooked that Microsoft's word processor already carried around a whole bloated scripting language already! (Just one more suitable to their audience...)
As far as it being non-trivial, I thought I had read a paper once upon a time about Word being designed so that scripting languages could be easily plugged in with the appropriate COM/ Active */.NET wrapper. So maybe that's not too crazy an idea -- just a useless one.
Don't forget "Guys and Dolls" at the Springfield Dinner Theater!
"Mark Hamill
IS
Nathan Detroit"
"Pepper steak
IS
the entree"
Hamill: Luke, be a Jedi tonight!
Just be a Jedi tonight! Hamill & Chorus: Do it for Yoda, while we serve our guests a soda. Hamill: Uh, and do it for Chewie and the Ewoks, and all the other puppets... Hamill & Chorus: Luke, be a Jedi tonight!
I don't get your point. Are you saying that the FBI shouldn't be squandering the taxpayers' money investigating what is a CIVIL, not a CRIMINAL offense?
I'm sure they have more important things to be doing.
Sad to say, but the examples you cited weren't lives lost in the pursuit of knowledge.
They were lives lost to managerial short-sightedness and corner-cutting.
It's one thing to take a calculated risk when you understand the odds. To take your fate in your own hands. It's totally different to put your fate in the hands of others, who then don't treat the situation with the diligence it deserves.
You wanna try your luck with the Russian space program?
Good thinking. Requiring suburbia to pay their own way would also help cut down on auto traffic and highway construction. Living in the sticks and owning land enough to have elbow room is a privilege, and should carry a cost. Higher desnity is cost effective. Remember kids, an elevator is public transit.
(Personally, having a 16-mile commute, I dread what's gonna happen when gas prices get really high.)
" I would be a bit more effective in my use of time if I didn't have to bit-level scan the freaking game disks looking for little zingers left in by the media companies but never mentioned nor accounted for, before feeling comfortable letting my kid play it. "
I've got a very cogent and well-thought out response to your position, please see bits 2,543,223,112 - 2,654,223,176 of Pi.
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Let me get this straight -- it's still ok for me to wear the Guardsmark uniform that I bought on ebay, go out in public and act like an ass, isn't it?
"Oh no! Cosmic Space Rocks! Look out!"
One point the author makes is that it's almost worth launching a inert payload just to keep the pipeline and infrastrucucture running than it is to stop and restart the process. Imagine the kind of payloads that could be waiting on standby for a free launch -- oh wait, you CAN'T because this is by definition an enabling technology.
Get the damn bueracrats out of the picture.
I had overlooked that Microsoft's word processor already carried around a whole bloated scripting language already! (Just one more suitable to their audience...)
As far as it being non-trivial, I thought I had read a paper once upon a time about Word being designed so that scripting languages could be easily plugged in with the appropriate COM/ Active */ .NET wrapper. So maybe that's not too crazy an idea -- just a useless one.
How come /. doesn't have the seemingly obvious "useless NASA middle-manager" troll?
When will MS Word finally get with the times and have a fully-featured standards-compliant Lisp interperter?!!!
"A man with one watch knows what time it is.
A man with two watches is never sure."
No wonder geeks have such consistantly bad haircuts!
"Mark Hamill
IS
Nathan Detroit"
"Pepper steak
IS
the entree"
Hamill: Luke, be a Jedi tonight! ...
Just be a Jedi tonight!
Hamill & Chorus: Do it for Yoda, while we serve our guests a soda.
Hamill: Uh, and do it for Chewie and the Ewoks, and all the other puppets
Hamill & Chorus: Luke, be a Jedi tonight!
I'm sure they have more important things to be doing.
Jorn is that you?!!!
When all else fails, we can post our grievences on Craigslist, print it out and nail it to the bank's front door in the middle of the night.
(As an aside, hrwiki is bandwith exceeded? sniff...)
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Jokes like that are why /. won't let me post AC ;-(
CP/M will rise again!
According to google satellite, there is no fab plant in Chandler, Az!!
Too bad that dirty hippy Frank Zappa is dead. He sure put those senators to shame last time around.
"Seller is A-one first rate! That really was the real moon right outside my window. Really the authentic item."
I hate those kind of things.
They were lives lost to managerial short-sightedness and corner-cutting.
It's one thing to take a calculated risk when you understand the odds. To take your fate in your own hands. It's totally different to put your fate in the hands of others, who then don't treat the situation with the diligence it deserves.
You wanna try your luck with the Russian space program?
Yeah, let's be fair -- compare betas to betas, you big bullies!
Bloody Loonies!
I'm gonna donate two million pairs of shackles!!!!
(Personally, having a 16-mile commute, I dread what's gonna happen when gas prices get really high.)
I've got a very cogent and well-thought out response to your position, please see bits 2,543,223,112 - 2,654,223,176 of Pi.