This is an absolute waste of time and money. What the students are recieving access to is, essentially, internet radio. Why would that be any more appealing as an alternative to Piracy than regular radio, or independant internet radio. Sounds like the school is paying for the opportunity to market a legal option to their students.
Having music in a stream selected by someone else is little or no substitute for managing a playlist and a substantial music collection. Do you really think that the average Penn student is too lazy to throw together a playlist, and will settle for someone elses?
This product concept reminds me a great deal of Apple's Duo product line info here that was sold in the early 90s. The idea was to make a tiny computer for use in a portable role, that could be easily stuck into a device that would make it perform like a desktop. The sales were abyssmal since it could do neither role particuliarly well. My bet is that this concept, as nifty and geek pornish as it is, will go the way of the Duo.
I'm a current student at tufts, and I'm not that surprised that there is some abuse of the system. The University is overall pretty laid back about student computing. The only things the sysadmins monitor for is virii that may cause systemwide problems (they send a person to your room with virus software if one's detected) and excessive bandwidth usage (over a gig per day for more than 3 days in month.)
While it is troubling to know that some of my fellow students abused the policy, it really isn't that hard. Though it pisses me off a little that they used University bandwidth for their little endeavor, the school has plenty, due to massive infrastructure installation in the late nineties. It hadn't caused any issues for the school (nobody I know has complained about a slowdown) so it's my opinion that the fact it's a university isn't a big deal. The kids are entrepreneurs, even if it's in a business I despise, taking advantage of the resources they've paid for. The real question is wether the school will add a clause to the acceptable use policy and start to monitor for spammers. Wouldn't be surprising.
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However, the Columbia had recieved a complete modernization package recently. In addition, the tiles are replaced after every launch, so there are NO first generation issues in relation to the heat tiles.
it's very easy, and tempting, to say that the reason that nerds are disliked is that they lack the interests that the jocks have, and blame the jocks for not being accepting. Simialarly, it's easy to say that the nerds simply don't want to show interest in mainstream activities and blame them for their social issues.
I place the blame elsewhere...in the parents, families, and teachers that never tried to get the children of their communities to have a love of experimentation and exploration into new activities and environments.
I am a nerd. I love my computer, and I spend a chunk of time every day visiting web comics, reading slashdot, surfing hardware sites. I can quote Simpsons, Discworld, and Kevin Smith at the drop of a hat, and often do. However, I also play hockey, sail, hike, listen to music, scuba dive and do all sorts of other things. What is the upshot of this personal ad? Somewhere along the way, somebody taught me that i shouldn't confine myself to interests within my narrowly defined social group.
My mother insisted from when I was very young that I try lots of sports. Never mind that I was reading at a very high level, or that I was a little butterball, she wanted me to have a well rounded personality. Many of those activities have ceased...I haven't played hockey or baseball since elementary school, still, participation taught me how to talk about the sport. Since she kicked me out of the bedroom, instead of doing the easy thing and letting me lie there eating cheetos all day, I can now talk to jocks, watch a football game, even, god forbid, play pickup games that look like fun.
The upshot of this is that in high school I hung out with a whole bunch of people admittedly nerdier than myself. They never had the exposure to a wide range of activities I did. They couldn't make friends outside of the small circle, since they had no interests in common with the outside world. I, on the other hand, had friends all over the place, despite membership in their little group. The reason for this, I'm convinced, is that I had that little extra nudge to make me enjoy activites outside of my area of expertise.
In fact, durring the senior year of high school, the little nerd group did branch out. What was the miraculous change caused by??? Alcohol and drugs. Lando, the boy who could easily quote passages from Wheel of Time, found out that he liked vodka. All of a sudden, he could talk about something in common with even the dumbest jock. Slim discovered marijuana. All the stoners and musicians were instant friends. It wasn't that hard to get along with all the other groups. All you had to do was throw a party, invite them along, and you know what? Anybody can get along when they have something to talk about.
This article is a bit mistaken. The most recent software update offered by Apple is the the OS X 10.2.3 Update on 2002-12-19. This is information directly from the Apple website.
What the poster discovered is that iTunes uses quicktime to decode MP3s. That's no secret. iTunes can actually play back anything that quicktime can read, so.mpg,.mov,.wav, even.avi and.ogg files with the proper codec will play back in iTunes if they are added to a playlist. I have a couple movie trailers thrown into my playlist...they play back just like audio only tracks. This post is the case of someone feeling clever for discovering a feature in his software.
What would be news is if the iPod's more hardware based decoding gained support for more formats. That is the one that Apple has announced no development for.
This device is able to use human body heat to create enough usable energy to drive a fairly simple mechanical device.
Let's extend this, playing futurist a bit. The same technology is applied to all the interior surfaces of your clothes, meaning that all your radiated body heat is put to use. Now, your wearable technologies need either smaller batteries, since they are trickle charged all day long by your body heat. Maybe your clothes have an air conditioner built in driven by body heat, maybe you just power a flat panel PDA on your wrist.
I'd keep an eye on this type of technology...reclaiming wasted energy could have huge implications for portable technologies of all kinds.
[Anonymous Coward] I hear those things are awfully loud. [Article] It glides as softly as a cloud [Enginerd] Is there a chance the track could bend? [Article] Not on your life, my Slashdot friend [Frequent poster] Why Seattle, those braindead slobs? [Article] There were only so many Starbucks jobs [Oil Companies] Were you sent here by the devil? [Article] No, good sir, I'm on the level [Cowboy Neal] I feel attracted to a man. [Article] Go outside and get a tan! I swear it's Seattle's only choice Throw up your hands and raise your voice! Monorail! What's it called? Monorail! Once again! Monorail! [Poster] But our educational system's all cracked and broken [re;] Sorry, man, the mob has spoken [All] Monorail! Monorail! Monorail! Monorail! [Homer] Mono- d'oh!
This terrible parody brought to you by a bored college student.
Riiiiiggghhhhttt....DJ Q*Bert, who I've seen live twice sure is an actor. He's playing a bunch of shows in Boston in the next week or so. Must be character research. Ane Ellen Feiss, the notorious EF, was an actor too. I've met her a couple times, since she lived next to a friend of mine at Exeter, a big boarding school, and she sure was acting. I hate trolls.
"True to its post-9/11 government-sanctioned role as US war propaganda headquarters, Hollywood has released "Black Hawk Down," a fictionalized account of the tragic 1993 US raid in Somalia. The Pentagon assisted with the production, pleased for an opportunity to "set the record straight." The film is a lie that compounds the original lie that was the operation itself. "
That phrase is a big knock to the credibility of the whole argument. The movie is based on a book and newspaper series of the same name. The movie was done shooting months before 9/11 and the script was written, mostly by the original author, over a year earlier. The pentagon did cooporate, that's true, but mostly because the book had been so non-judgemental, and they hoped the movie would be the same. The method of the book was to lay out all the facts, in a scrupulous journalistic style, and let you decide. The method of the movie is to lay out all the action scenes, in as journalistic a style as possible, and let you see how pointless, yet heroic, the soldiers were.
On a slightly seperate rant, Mr. Chomsky needs to stop trying to have his cake and eat it too. There was a massive civil war going on, with four tribes attempting to eradicate each other. Regardless of the reason for US intervention, it's not the US's fault that the culture of blood-warfare existed in the place, or that the civil war occurred.
You can get the text of almost any book at Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/). It's an organization dedicated to transferring as much literature as possible into a plain vanilla text format.
My Grandfather was on a troopship bound for Japan when the A-Bomb was dropped. He remembers the speeches they were given about high projected casualties. Intelligence had determined that the Japanese were hoping to draw out the Soviet negotiations while focusing their forces eastward. The Soviets likely wouldn't have complained, because they did NOT want to enter the Pacific theater. In fact, the allies were angry at them for their refusal to do so.
The opposition would have been fierce and largely perpetrated in a sort of urban guerilla warfare (weapons and instructions were distributed to civilians in preparation). Anyway, my original point was that my Grandfather is convinced that he would not have survived had the US not bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That impression was reinforced when he saw the villages in China and the Phillipenes that the Japanese had burnt and slaughtered. Additionally, the Nanjing Massacre was a horror story for American GIs to hear about. Knowing that a power capable of such a massacre had struck your homeland was a powerful motivator, and a terrifying challenge. I would likely not be here today but for the bomb.
"The quality of the CRT's they used were complete crap."
Apparently you have never noticed that it's a 15 inch monitor, and that it runs 1024x800 wonderfully. The screen is gorgeous, and optimizing it for extremely high resolutions would be an utter waste of time. On small monitor, high resolutions just make everything too small.
My area has only got a couple of HDTV stations, and they aren't very good ones. (ie no guns and animal channels like TLC or Discovery.) However, DVD playback on HDTV sets is amazing. The discs carry enough data to take advantage of the high resolution, and it shows. If you've gone into a Blockbuster in the last 2 years, you'd see the greater presence of DVDs, especially with nifty stuff on them. That's a pretty good reason to adopt early, especially if you're the home theater type.
Somebody has played WAAAAYY too much civilization or civ2. On that note, we should route our spare chariot units to Afghanistan, they're not much use now that we have stealth technology, but we might as well throw them onto troop transports.
Me: "Besides, in the battle between bigger armor and bigger guns, the guns always win eventually."
Reply: "Ah, but which is which? This is an odd historical precedent to apply in favor of a defense mechanism"
Good point. What I intended in my statement is that this gun can defeat the armor on incoming ordinance, and should be able to scale up to continue to defeat it. However, I do believe that even the most powerful laser defense system in the world will be rendered useless by the next type of ordinance, (maybe offensive lasers?) An example of the sword slicing both ways, eh?
I used him as a source for what I considered a funny analogy. Surely you agree he can write a funny analogy? The quote actually was made by him in an interview with some MIT folks and pentagon folks durring which they tried to describe how Star Wars would work. He, just like slashdot readers, assumed he was smarter than the scientists employed to make the weapons, so he asked why not just cover sattelites and ICBMS with mirrors. They then explained that they were hoping to deliver at a minimum two sticks of dynamite, which would be able to burn through existing systems, and (here's the important part) completely destroy the delicate bits. That includes Sattelite solar panels and all the sensor systems on missiles. Again, Clancy was smart, and referenced the then emerging technology of GPS...could you mess that up if you had no sensors? No, the panel replied, but by the mid-nineties, their laser technology and computer control should let them deliver considerably more energy, and enable slagging (melting) missile bits far more robust than the sensors. To that, Clancy replied with the quote about a ballerina.
Also, I reccomend you read the book series Guided Tour of...(Carrier, Armored Cav, Fighter wing, Airborne, etc.) If Stephen King spent a big chunk of his life writing criminology texts, interviewing homicide detectives, and researching enough to write non-fiction analysis and case profiles, then sure, I would use him as a reference. However, in this case, despite what I consider Clancy's adequate qualification, I just used his color commentary.
Mirror coating, etc. doesn't make a difference. Try holding a match to the mirror, and you'll find to your surprise that the mirror gets warm. That's because oxidation is releasing lots of energy all over the place. A laser is a way of releasing lots of energy to a single spot. Tom Clancy said mirror coating or spinning a missile in front of a laser would be like having a ballerina pirrouete in front of a shotgun. Besides, in the battle between bigger armor and bigger guns, the guns always win eventually.
Alright, suppose MASA (Mars Air and Space Administration) wanted to explore the big blue planet. Their engineers have low gravity, and look like floating octopi with heads full of hydrogen, so their first thought is obviously to make a convenient aerial surveilance system. It needs to be durable, with a hard structure, and capable of dissolving just about anything for fuel.....CRAP DON"T SWAT ANY FLIES.
For this reason, I suggest talking to the insects, to try to insure that our defeat by the martians will be swift and painless.
The huge hole is in the behind of that nice man people link to all the time. Silly scientists. They obviously hadn't searched the Goatse sector for huge phenomena very well. Come to think of it, another recent report...from my pants, says that a huge, mighty, fearsome phenomenon has been discovered.
How bout the Nautilus (first nuke sub)? Or first tank? (unnamed design-just called armored cavalry vehicle) And actually, the shuttle was named after the TV show...it was supposed to be called the Constitution. see this link: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbi ters/enterprise.html
Lovely reference to Herriot...I wonder how many of the slashdot crowd picked up on it. My favorite was when he dressed up in the thick rubber suit just to hand tools.
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It's a freakin' LED. Its power consumption is completely insignificant. We're talking about using up a AA battery in 10 years kind of insignificant.
This is an absolute waste of time and money. What the students are recieving access to is, essentially, internet radio. Why would that be any more appealing as an alternative to Piracy than regular radio, or independant internet radio. Sounds like the school is paying for the opportunity to market a legal option to their students.
Having music in a stream selected by someone else is little or no substitute for managing a playlist and a substantial music collection. Do you really think that the average Penn student is too lazy to throw together a playlist, and will settle for someone elses?
What a waste. Free internet radio. Pfeh.
This product concept reminds me a great deal of Apple's Duo product line
info here that was sold in the early 90s. The idea was to make a tiny computer for use in a portable role, that could be easily stuck into a device that would make it perform like a desktop. The sales were abyssmal since it could do neither role particuliarly well. My bet is that this concept, as nifty and geek pornish as it is, will go the way of the Duo.
I'm a current student at tufts, and I'm not that surprised that there is some abuse of the system. The University is overall pretty laid back about student computing. The only things the sysadmins monitor for is virii that may cause systemwide problems (they send a person to your room with virus software if one's detected) and excessive bandwidth usage (over a gig per day for more than 3 days in month.)
While it is troubling to know that some of my fellow students abused the policy, it really isn't that hard. Though it pisses me off a little that they used University bandwidth for their little endeavor, the school has plenty, due to massive infrastructure installation in the late nineties. It hadn't caused any issues for the school (nobody I know has complained about a slowdown) so it's my opinion that the fact it's a university isn't a big deal. The kids are entrepreneurs, even if it's in a business I despise, taking advantage of the resources they've paid for. The real question is wether the school will add a clause to the acceptable use policy and start to monitor for spammers. Wouldn't be surprising.
However, the Columbia had recieved a complete modernization package recently. In addition, the tiles are replaced after every launch, so there are NO first generation issues in relation to the heat tiles.
it's very easy, and tempting, to say that the reason that nerds are disliked is that they lack the interests that the jocks have, and blame the jocks for not being accepting. Simialarly, it's easy to say that the nerds simply don't want to show interest in mainstream activities and blame them for their social issues.
I place the blame elsewhere...in the parents, families, and teachers that never tried to get the children of their communities to have a love of experimentation and exploration into new activities and environments.
I am a nerd. I love my computer, and I spend a chunk of time every day visiting web comics, reading slashdot, surfing hardware sites. I can quote Simpsons, Discworld, and Kevin Smith at the drop of a hat, and often do. However, I also play hockey, sail, hike, listen to music, scuba dive and do all sorts of other things. What is the upshot of this personal ad? Somewhere along the way, somebody taught me that i shouldn't confine myself to interests within my narrowly defined social group.
My mother insisted from when I was very young that I try lots of sports. Never mind that I was reading at a very high level, or that I was a little butterball, she wanted me to have a well rounded personality. Many of those activities have ceased...I haven't played hockey or baseball since elementary school, still, participation taught me how to talk about the sport. Since she kicked me out of the bedroom, instead of doing the easy thing and letting me lie there eating cheetos all day, I can now talk to jocks, watch a football game, even, god forbid, play pickup games that look like fun.
The upshot of this is that in high school I hung out with a whole bunch of people admittedly nerdier than myself. They never had the exposure to a wide range of activities I did. They couldn't make friends outside of the small circle, since they had no interests in common with the outside world. I, on the other hand, had friends all over the place, despite membership in their little group. The reason for this, I'm convinced, is that I had that little extra nudge to make me enjoy activites outside of my area of expertise.
In fact, durring the senior year of high school, the little nerd group did branch out. What was the miraculous change caused by??? Alcohol and drugs. Lando, the boy who could easily quote passages from Wheel of Time, found out that he liked vodka. All of a sudden, he could talk about something in common with even the dumbest jock. Slim discovered marijuana. All the stoners and musicians were instant friends. It wasn't that hard to get along with all the other groups. All you had to do was throw a party, invite them along, and you know what? Anybody can get along when they have something to talk about.
This article is a bit mistaken. The most recent software update offered by Apple is the the OS X 10.2.3 Update on 2002-12-19. This is information directly from the Apple website.
.mpg, .mov, .wav, even .avi and .ogg files with the proper codec will play back in iTunes if they are added to a playlist. I have a couple movie trailers thrown into my playlist...they play back just like audio only tracks. This post is the case of someone feeling clever for discovering a feature in his software.
What the poster discovered is that iTunes uses quicktime to decode MP3s. That's no secret. iTunes can actually play back anything that quicktime can read, so
What would be news is if the iPod's more hardware based decoding gained support for more formats. That is the one that Apple has announced no development for.
This device is able to use human body heat to create enough usable energy to drive a fairly simple mechanical device.
Let's extend this, playing futurist a bit. The same technology is applied to all the interior surfaces of your clothes, meaning that all your radiated body heat is put to use. Now, your wearable technologies need either smaller batteries, since they are trickle charged all day long by your body heat. Maybe your clothes have an air conditioner built in driven by body heat, maybe you just power a flat panel PDA on your wrist.
I'd keep an eye on this type of technology...reclaiming wasted energy could have huge implications for portable technologies of all kinds.
They scratch them when they get the cds to prevent them from being sent out again.
[Anonymous Coward] I hear those things are awfully loud.
[Article] It glides as softly as a cloud
[Enginerd] Is there a chance the track could bend?
[Article] Not on your life, my Slashdot friend
[Frequent poster] Why Seattle, those braindead slobs?
[Article] There were only so many Starbucks jobs
[Oil Companies] Were you sent here by the devil?
[Article] No, good sir, I'm on the level
[Cowboy Neal] I feel attracted to a man.
[Article] Go outside and get a tan!
I swear it's Seattle's only choice
Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
Monorail!
What's it called?
Monorail!
Once again!
Monorail!
[Poster] But our educational system's all cracked and broken
[re;] Sorry, man, the mob has spoken
[All] Monorail! Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
[Homer] Mono- d'oh!
This terrible parody brought to you by a bored college student.
Riiiiiggghhhhttt....DJ Q*Bert, who I've seen live twice sure is an actor. He's playing a bunch of shows in Boston in the next week or so. Must be character research. Ane Ellen Feiss, the notorious EF, was an actor too. I've met her a couple times, since she lived next to a friend of mine at Exeter, a big boarding school, and she sure was acting. I hate trolls.
You're righy. Don't rant drunk.
"True to its post-9/11 government-sanctioned role as US war propaganda headquarters, Hollywood has released "Black Hawk Down," a fictionalized account of the tragic 1993 US raid in Somalia. The Pentagon assisted with the production, pleased for an opportunity to "set the record straight." The film is a lie that compounds the original lie that was the operation itself. " That phrase is a big knock to the credibility of the whole argument. The movie is based on a book and newspaper series of the same name. The movie was done shooting months before 9/11 and the script was written, mostly by the original author, over a year earlier. The pentagon did cooporate, that's true, but mostly because the book had been so non-judgemental, and they hoped the movie would be the same. The method of the book was to lay out all the facts, in a scrupulous journalistic style, and let you decide. The method of the movie is to lay out all the action scenes, in as journalistic a style as possible, and let you see how pointless, yet heroic, the soldiers were. On a slightly seperate rant, Mr. Chomsky needs to stop trying to have his cake and eat it too. There was a massive civil war going on, with four tribes attempting to eradicate each other. Regardless of the reason for US intervention, it's not the US's fault that the culture of blood-warfare existed in the place, or that the civil war occurred.
You can get the text of almost any book at Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/). It's an organization dedicated to transferring as much literature as possible into a plain vanilla text format.
My Grandfather was on a troopship bound for Japan when the A-Bomb was dropped. He remembers the speeches they were given about high projected casualties. Intelligence had determined that the Japanese were hoping to draw out the Soviet negotiations while focusing their forces eastward. The Soviets likely wouldn't have complained, because they did NOT want to enter the Pacific theater. In fact, the allies were angry at them for their refusal to do so. The opposition would have been fierce and largely perpetrated in a sort of urban guerilla warfare (weapons and instructions were distributed to civilians in preparation). Anyway, my original point was that my Grandfather is convinced that he would not have survived had the US not bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That impression was reinforced when he saw the villages in China and the Phillipenes that the Japanese had burnt and slaughtered. Additionally, the Nanjing Massacre was a horror story for American GIs to hear about. Knowing that a power capable of such a massacre had struck your homeland was a powerful motivator, and a terrifying challenge. I would likely not be here today but for the bomb.
"The quality of the CRT's they used were complete crap."
Apparently you have never noticed that it's a 15 inch monitor, and that it runs 1024x800 wonderfully. The screen is gorgeous, and optimizing it for extremely high resolutions would be an utter waste of time. On small monitor, high resolutions just make everything too small.
My area has only got a couple of HDTV stations, and they aren't very good ones. (ie no guns and animal channels like TLC or Discovery.) However, DVD playback on HDTV sets is amazing. The discs carry enough data to take advantage of the high resolution, and it shows. If you've gone into a Blockbuster in the last 2 years, you'd see the greater presence of DVDs, especially with nifty stuff on them. That's a pretty good reason to adopt early, especially if you're the home theater type.
Somebody has played WAAAAYY too much civilization or civ2. On that note, we should route our spare chariot units to Afghanistan, they're not much use now that we have stealth technology, but we might as well throw them onto troop transports.
Me: "Besides, in the battle between bigger armor and bigger guns, the guns always win eventually."
Reply: "Ah, but which is which? This is an odd historical precedent to apply in favor of a defense mechanism"
Good point. What I intended in my statement is that this gun can defeat the armor on incoming ordinance, and should be able to scale up to continue to defeat it. However, I do believe that even the most powerful laser defense system in the world will be rendered useless by the next type of ordinance, (maybe offensive lasers?) An example of the sword slicing both ways, eh?
I used him as a source for what I considered a funny analogy. Surely you agree he can write a funny analogy? The quote actually was made by him in an interview with some MIT folks and pentagon folks durring which they tried to describe how Star Wars would work. He, just like slashdot readers, assumed he was smarter than the scientists employed to make the weapons, so he asked why not just cover sattelites and ICBMS with mirrors. They then explained that they were hoping to deliver at a minimum two sticks of dynamite, which would be able to burn through existing systems, and (here's the important part) completely destroy the delicate bits. That includes Sattelite solar panels and all the sensor systems on missiles. Again, Clancy was smart, and referenced the then emerging technology of GPS...could you mess that up if you had no sensors? No, the panel replied, but by the mid-nineties, their laser technology and computer control should let them deliver considerably more energy, and enable slagging (melting) missile bits far more robust than the sensors. To that, Clancy replied with the quote about a ballerina.
Also, I reccomend you read the book series Guided Tour of...(Carrier, Armored Cav, Fighter wing, Airborne, etc.) If Stephen King spent a big chunk of his life writing criminology texts, interviewing homicide detectives, and researching enough to write non-fiction analysis and case profiles, then sure, I would use him as a reference. However, in this case, despite what I consider Clancy's adequate qualification, I just used his color commentary.
Mirror coating, etc. doesn't make a difference. Try holding a match to the mirror, and you'll find to your surprise that the mirror gets warm. That's because oxidation is releasing lots of energy all over the place. A laser is a way of releasing lots of energy to a single spot. Tom Clancy said mirror coating or spinning a missile in front of a laser would be like having a ballerina pirrouete in front of a shotgun. Besides, in the battle between bigger armor and bigger guns, the guns always win eventually.
Alright, suppose MASA (Mars Air and Space Administration) wanted to explore the big blue planet. Their engineers have low gravity, and look like floating octopi with heads full of hydrogen, so their first thought is obviously to make a convenient aerial surveilance system. It needs to be durable, with a hard structure, and capable of dissolving just about anything for fuel.....CRAP DON"T SWAT ANY FLIES.
For this reason, I suggest talking to the insects, to try to insure that our defeat by the martians will be swift and painless.
The huge hole is in the behind of that nice man people link to all the time. Silly scientists. They obviously hadn't searched the Goatse sector for huge phenomena very well. Come to think of it, another recent report...from my pants, says that a huge, mighty, fearsome phenomenon has been discovered.
How bout the Nautilus (first nuke sub)? Or first tank? (unnamed design-just called armored cavalry vehicle) And actually, the shuttle was named after the TV show...it was supposed to be called the Constitution. see this link: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbi ters/enterprise.html
Lovely reference to Herriot...I wonder how many of the slashdot crowd picked up on it. My favorite was when he dressed up in the thick rubber suit just to hand tools.