I used to work for a conttractor for NASA and did quite a bit of maintenance and development for some of the applications in this library. They are written in FORTRAN mostly because the original development took place in the early 70s for most of them. When I got there 20 years later, I was maintaining spaghetti code that had been modified and remodified ad nauseam.
I recieved a couple letters informing me that "my" code had been incorporated into the COSMIC library. At that time, it was mostly research and academic organizations that used COSMIC. Anyway, it wasn't really my code. I was just the person currently modifying it.
Also, much of the code is not real-time. Sustantial time is spent doing simulations to make sure everything is everything. It's an expensive mistake to fix once you've launched. Nonetheless, I had to sit around during launches (always at 3 am) just in case... I saw a post earlier that talked about the rigorous testing, and that was certainly true which led to me doing pretty much nothing during the launch and checkout of the spacecraft. It was kind of neat to watch it all, though...
Well, I checked out msn.com with NS 6.1 on my Linux box and my W2K box, and neither was blocked, although NS on Linux did not render the HTML very well.
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And it's corollary:
Eschew obfuscation
Can't I have just a little peril?
No... It's too perilous.
I think it takes more than a nifty domain suffix to provide secure communications.
Oh....
Interesting... Thanks!
The Nat'l Geographic thing is cool, but I'm wondering why Koda didn't nip an ear off Simon the Maltese as well.
Well it would be true, but Mr. Novak seems to have actually brought legal proceedings. Almost to the point of barratry really.
Get the boy off the Bridge!!!!!
As a consultant, I'm equally as expensive whether you run a *nix shop or a MS shop.
Why doesn't this guy build himself a Faraday cage, and leave everybody else alone?
Nope, don't like it. Too simple. Too clear cut...
I used to work for a conttractor for NASA and did quite a bit of maintenance and development for some of the applications in this library. They are written in FORTRAN mostly because the original development took place in the early 70s for most of them. When I got there 20 years later, I was maintaining spaghetti code that had been modified and remodified ad nauseam.
I recieved a couple letters informing me that "my" code had been incorporated into the COSMIC library. At that time, it was mostly research and academic organizations that used COSMIC. Anyway, it wasn't really my code. I was just the person currently modifying it.
Also, much of the code is not real-time. Sustantial time is spent doing simulations to make sure everything is everything. It's an expensive mistake to fix once you've launched. Nonetheless, I had to sit around during launches (always at 3 am) just in case... I saw a post earlier that talked about the rigorous testing, and that was certainly true which led to me doing pretty much nothing during the launch and checkout of the spacecraft. It was kind of neat to watch it all, though...
Now that espn.com is under the msn.com umbrella, what does this mean for non-IE viewers of espn.com?
Well, I checked out msn.com with NS 6.1 on my Linux box and my W2K box, and neither was blocked, although NS on Linux did not render the HTML very well.