I don't quite believe that we do not have the ability to build kerosene powered Saturn Vs all over again, it would just be a very expensive proposition. Nor is the ability lost to build something new with the same thrust and duration that is perhaps less expensive (inflation adjusted of course).
Online etiquette: “Flaming is generally frowned upon because it generates lots of articles that very few people want to read and wastes Usenet resources.”
That horse made it out the door long ago. Entire websites and careers are built on that now.
IIRC, that was the first one I learned before getting on the real internet around the time of this book's publication. Seemed to have been slain by reality already.
"so the probability of failure is significant"
After all of these years of rocketry experience, one would think that much new technology would be added to decrease the probability of failure, yes?
Well, you guys tossed the idea to my head of maybe customer provided art formed in sugar and applied to the cake, even a picture or similar. I knew there must be some market for this, I was just having an imagination stall.
That idea makes good sense. I keep forgetting (unless I am in one) that grocery stores of today are more like mini-malls with the variety that they provide to the consumer.
j/k, I think printing food at the grocery store might be a little farther off than this.
However, I am trying to think of what would advantage there would be at the grocery store waiting for your chosen object to be printed, rather than what is going on now with low price-per-unit injection molded mass production. I'm sure there is something, many somethings out there suitable for this, I am just having a hard time figuring out what they are.
Because Ctrl-Alt-Delete is non-interruptible. This way one could be sure it was truly the login screen and not something impersonating the login screen. At least, that's how I remember it. Could be urban legend.
I coulda swore that the inventor of Ctrl-Alt-Delete said the same thing as you in an interview in the 1990s. Might have been in Wired? Could be in a link in the article that I didn't read too.
If people post stuff on an online social media site, aren't they giving permission to publish it online? Can they really revoke that permission later? Aren't there First Amendment issues here? If I have a blog site with a public comments section, am I legally obligated to maintain that site forever so I can delete comments whenever someone turns 18 and demands it be deleted?
What about if the screen shots are printed in an art book? Must the book be burned on demand?
A new California law will require local bars to eliminate any alcohol consumed by minors from their bodies on demand. Supporters say this new law will reduce the amount of drunk-driving and poor decisions made by drunk minors. It might help them avoid personal and work-related problems.
Not to mention eliminating many pesky pregnancies, And they can also succeed where Indiana failed, and legislate Pi to be the number 3, thus improving test scores across the State.
Someone already posted somewhere in here that the information within the release was available to a lot of people before it was released to the public. Now, combine that with someone who also has access to a trading account. Still quite a few people.
I am not so sure about that ignorance factor. That whole network between NYC and Chicago for trading is timed down to the millisecond. Some trading houses try to locate as close as possible to the servers they communicate with just to shave milliseconds. It is well known stuff in that industry. John Batchelor (WABC-AM) did a few shows on it a couple of years ago.
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Love that cartoon! Yep, chalk another one up. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24195-nasa-says-voyager-1-has-left-the-solar-system-honest.html#.UkyGRYYk-ZA
I'm just glad I have a 3G, which apparently can't detect anything but the presence local WiFi networks now.
I don't quite believe that we do not have the ability to build kerosene powered Saturn Vs all over again, it would just be a very expensive proposition. Nor is the ability lost to build something new with the same thrust and duration that is perhaps less expensive (inflation adjusted of course).
In this case, the Vice Admiral's title was quite a tell.
FTA:
Online etiquette: “Flaming is generally frowned upon because it generates lots of articles that very few people want to read and wastes Usenet resources.”
That horse made it out the door long ago. Entire websites and careers are built on that now.
IIRC, that was the first one I learned before getting on the real internet around the time of this book's publication. Seemed to have been slain by reality already.
I am sure I've invented something or other over the years.
"so the probability of failure is significant"
After all of these years of rocketry experience, one would think that much new technology would be added to decrease the probability of failure, yes?
Well, you guys tossed the idea to my head of maybe customer provided art formed in sugar and applied to the cake, even a picture or similar. I knew there must be some market for this, I was just having an imagination stall.
That idea makes good sense. I keep forgetting (unless I am in one) that grocery stores of today are more like mini-malls with the variety that they provide to the consumer.
j/k, I think printing food at the grocery store might be a little farther off than this. However, I am trying to think of what would advantage there would be at the grocery store waiting for your chosen object to be printed, rather than what is going on now with low price-per-unit injection molded mass production. I'm sure there is something, many somethings out there suitable for this, I am just having a hard time figuring out what they are.
I loved the power key on the old Apple ADB keyboards. I didn't enjoy the operating system back then, but I remember wishing PC's had such a key.
All of my PCs had a "power key." More than one depending on how many power strips were between it and the wall socket :)
Because Ctrl-Alt-Delete is non-interruptible. This way one could be sure it was truly the login screen and not something impersonating the login screen. At least, that's how I remember it. Could be urban legend.
I coulda swore that the inventor of Ctrl-Alt-Delete said the same thing as you in an interview in the 1990s. Might have been in Wired? Could be in a link in the article that I didn't read too.
Martha Stewart got in trouble for lying to a federal agent, about something she was never guilty of to begin with.
If people post stuff on an online social media site, aren't they giving permission to publish it online? Can they really revoke that permission later? Aren't there First Amendment issues here? If I have a blog site with a public comments section, am I legally obligated to maintain that site forever so I can delete comments whenever someone turns 18 and demands it be deleted?
What about if the screen shots are printed in an art book? Must the book be burned on demand?
A new California law will require local bars to eliminate any alcohol consumed by minors from their bodies on demand. Supporters say this new law will reduce the amount of drunk-driving and poor decisions made by drunk minors. It might help them avoid personal and work-related problems.
Not to mention eliminating many pesky pregnancies, And they can also succeed where Indiana failed, and legislate Pi to be the number 3, thus improving test scores across the State.
Okay, an example from fiction: "Trading Places" the movie.
Someone already posted somewhere in here that the information within the release was available to a lot of people before it was released to the public. Now, combine that with someone who also has access to a trading account. Still quite a few people.
I am not so sure about that ignorance factor. That whole network between NYC and Chicago for trading is timed down to the millisecond. Some trading houses try to locate as close as possible to the servers they communicate with just to shave milliseconds. It is well known stuff in that industry. John Batchelor (WABC-AM) did a few shows on it a couple of years ago.
Too bad there were not any judges like this overseeing the mortgage sham bubble.
Yes, Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) called it a while back.
I knew my old tube set would be back in style again!
I'm pretty sure it was a speed of light violation. We should announce to the rest of the world this marvelous discovery.
I took care of it next week.
Yes, advanced notice of the news and trades programmed to execute at the appropriate time. However, they chose the wrong time to look appropriate.
Inside job. Someone knew in advance what the news would be and programmed a set of trades to happen immediately before the news was announced.
"They" started long before that Cypress deal. FDIC and Transcontinental Railroad are but two US examples.