Build yourself a Dobsonion scope and buy the pre-ground optics.
Years ago I made a fantastic 10" Dobsonion mount and had joined the Toronto astronomy club to start grinding a mirror. Well, time went on as grinding these things takes a *lot* of time and along the way I went off to Japan. Whilst I was away the my parents moved and asked what to do with the scope which was taking up space at their house. I had them take it over to the astronomy club for safekeeping. Shortly thereafter the club ran into trouble and shut down. My dobsonion and mirror disappeared and the scope was never completed.
In hindsite I should have just ordered the optics as they aren't that expensive.
For the same reason you don't put an 80GB ATA133 in that old 486.
Sometimes it's better to just to get a new machine.
It *will* be sad when Hubbble burns up. (And don't think that it's ever going to come down nicely. That opportunity was lost with Columbia as others have pointed out.)
When they Linux User's group held the demo outside of SCO's headquarters and let themselves be shown with Darl's arms around them you got the classic case of what you are referring to.
However, in this case we have the controlled informing of the correct authorities.
They didn't roll over and die when Word (for DOS) came out.
The seeds of WordPerfect's destruction were actually sown when they didn't adapt to Windows fast enough. That, combined with MS's intrinsic lead in the technology base doomed them.
Not that any of this doesn't keep the law firm I work for from using Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS to produce our bills well into the 21st century. This will change by year-end.
As we didn't have OS/2, BeOS and some others to teach us that no OS can win without popular applications.
But those examples came from the WordPerfect age when applications really mattered. What we are talking about here has become an integral part of any operating system and has become *the* application users work with. The other reality is that even browser applications aren't necessarily OS-neutral.
For example, we are rolling out the web interface that is offered by our new accounting software vendor. Visions of giving the lawyers cheap Linux-based workstations since they just enter time and browse the web were dashed when it turns out their web interface requires an ActiveX control, the MS-XML interpreter, etc. etc. and is thus essentially Windows-only.
The desktop is 0wned, the stand-alone application market is 0wned, and now, in the final coupe-de-grace, the browser sapplication space will be 0wned.
Great movie, bit cheesy, lame ending but a dogfight between an F-14 Tomcat and a Zero?
I like the goof from IMDB:
"Factual Errors: A Zero that was hit by a burst of shells from an F-14's M-61A Vulcan cannon (which fires at a rate of 6000 rounds/min) would not have stayed in one piece and only suffered a damaged engine, it would have been disintegrated. Zeros were notorious for their fragility."
Enough education... I'll stop ruining the fun now.
No, no, keep it up. Although it's fun to see these asswipes make themselves look like complete flaming idiots the less flaming idiots we have the better.
It would have been nice if had landed as expected then there would have been more press about the names. Once it was lost, so were the names in the eyes of the press.
NASA did the same thing for the Mars Polar Explorer. You could submit the names which NASA put on a CD and you could print out a certificate commemorating the fact.
I did this for both of my kids entire classes which they got quite a kick out of. "Ooooh, my name is gonna be on MARS!!"
Only the Russians have landed a probe on Venus, which took a couple of pictures then instantly fried under the heat and pressure of the Venusian atmosphere.
Mars is relatively easy.
I'll still never forgive Time for thinking Nadia Comaneci was more important that the first pictures from the surface of Mars. (Even though I did have a bit of a crush on her at the time....)
From 1988 to 1996, he worked at networking leader Novell where he was responsible for growing Novell Japan's growth to more than $100 million in revenue.
I was in Japan from 1986 to 1996. Novell went absolutely nowhere during that time. Microsoft took over the networking market. I ended up dealing only with Novell U.S. as Novell Japan was absolutely hopeless to work with. Now that I think about it, I seem to recall meeting Darl at a gaijin get-together. Just another expat executive lording over the locals.
If he knows more Japanese than "o-kane dase" I'll be amazed.
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Build yourself a Dobsonion scope and buy the pre-ground optics.
Years ago I made a fantastic 10" Dobsonion mount and had joined the Toronto astronomy club to start grinding a mirror. Well, time went on as grinding these things takes a *lot* of time and along the way I went off to Japan. Whilst I was away the my parents moved and asked what to do with the scope which was taking up space at their house. I had them take it over to the astronomy club for safekeeping. Shortly thereafter the club ran into trouble and shut down. My dobsonion and mirror disappeared and the scope was never completed.
In hindsite I should have just ordered the optics as they aren't that expensive.
For the same reason you don't put an 80GB ATA133 in that old 486.
Sometimes it's better to just to get a new machine.
It *will* be sad when Hubbble burns up. (And don't think that it's ever going to come down nicely. That opportunity was lost with Columbia as others have pointed out.)
Simple.
Solar panels wouldn't produce enough
power to run the radio let alone charge the batteries.
It just doesn't matter if we win or we lose.
Even if God in heaven above pointed His hand at our side of the courtroom!
Even if every man and woman Linux user on the planet joined servers together in the greatest Beowulf cluster in history!!!
It just doesn't matter 'cause all the *really* good looking girls will still go out with the guys from SCO 'cause they got all the money!!"
It Just Doesn't Matter!
It Just Doesn't Matter!
It Just Doesn't Matter!
When they Linux User's group held the demo outside of SCO's headquarters and let themselves be shown with Darl's arms around them you got the classic case of what you are referring to.
However, in this case we have the controlled informing of the correct authorities.
Nobody gives me any weird looks if I'm swinging my shinai.
They didn't roll over and die when Word (for DOS) came out.
The seeds of WordPerfect's destruction were actually sown when they didn't adapt to Windows fast enough. That, combined with MS's intrinsic lead in the technology base doomed them.
Not that any of this doesn't keep the law firm I work for from using Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS to produce our bills well into the 21st century. This will change by year-end.
Personally, I'd rather dance with Tamiyo Kusakari.
Hurry and see the original before J-Lo and Gere wreck the concept.
What would the space shuttle look like if NASCAR-like sponsership was allowed?
Shouldn't be too hard if this is possible
Hell it was +4 Funny when I posted the same comment two days ago!
As we didn't have OS/2, BeOS and some others to teach us that no OS can win without popular applications.
But those examples came from the WordPerfect age when applications really mattered. What we are talking about here has become an integral part of any operating system and has become *the* application users work with. The other reality is that even browser applications aren't necessarily OS-neutral.
For example, we are rolling out the web interface that is offered by our new accounting software vendor. Visions of giving the lawyers cheap Linux-based workstations since they just enter time and browse the web were dashed when it turns out their web interface requires an ActiveX control, the MS-XML interpreter, etc. etc. and is thus essentially Windows-only.
The desktop is 0wned, the stand-alone application market is 0wned, and now, in the final coupe-de-grace, the browser sapplication space will be 0wned.
most readers will realize that they're better off with Estes and Aerotech stuff
Maybe not since Estes starting charging C$50 for a small painted paper tube and a couple of pieces of balsa wood.
That face scared the crap out of me when I saw it at the end of Star Trek many, many years ago.
I'm now scarred for life.
USNS Bob Hope.
Great movie, bit cheesy, lame ending but a dogfight between an F-14 Tomcat and a Zero?
I like the goof from IMDB:
"Factual Errors: A Zero that was hit by a burst of shells from an F-14's M-61A Vulcan cannon (which fires at a rate of 6000 rounds/min) would not have stayed in one piece and only suffered a damaged engine, it would have been disintegrated. Zeros were notorious for their fragility."
Uh, that was a joke.
Obviously you are too young to have watched UFO.
No, I am not kidding.
It's already been done.
One anonymous quote on NewsForge and you're saying he was fired for incompetency?
Rather large leap of logic there....
Enough education... I'll stop ruining the fun now.
No, no, keep it up. Although it's fun to see these asswipes make themselves look like complete flaming idiots the less flaming idiots we have the better.
Ummmm.
Hence the title of my post...
It would have been nice if had landed as expected then there would have been more press about the names. Once it was lost, so were the names in the eyes of the press.
NASA did the same thing for the Mars Polar Explorer. You could submit the names which NASA put on a CD and you could print out a certificate commemorating the fact.
I did this for both of my kids entire classes which they got quite a kick out of. "Ooooh, my name is gonna be on MARS!!"
Then it crashed.....
Only the Russians have landed a probe on Venus, which took a couple of pictures then instantly fried under the heat and pressure of the Venusian atmosphere.
Mars is relatively easy.
I'll still never forgive Time for thinking Nadia Comaneci was more important that the first pictures from the surface of Mars. (Even though I did have a bit of a crush on her at the time....)
Ah, this reminds me of a great ad for a language school from some years back.
Picture of a cute little 4-year-old Japanese girl in a Kimono with the line: "She can speak Japanese, why can't you?"
From his bio:
From 1988 to 1996, he worked at networking leader Novell where he was responsible for growing Novell Japan's growth to more than $100 million in revenue.
I was in Japan from 1986 to 1996. Novell went absolutely nowhere during that time. Microsoft took over the networking market. I ended up dealing only with Novell U.S. as Novell Japan was absolutely hopeless to work with. Now that I think about it, I seem to recall meeting Darl at a gaijin get-together. Just another expat executive lording over the locals.
If he knows more Japanese than "o-kane dase" I'll be amazed.