Basically the reason is that as is, it's about as high as is practical for the shuttle to reach. Any higher and the effective cargo lift to it would be 0.
Professionalism: wrong - all in all most of the OSS I see is more professionally done than the closed sourced crap I have to work with.
Umm, yea. That's why there are so many sites peppered with "Windoze", "M$", etc. There are certainly professional OSS sites out there, but there are also quite a few supposed "software" sites that seem to serve as nothing more than a place for the author to rant and rave.
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I've worked on MySQL since I started working with PHP, and I've even taught it at the college level, where I praised the database for being free and open. I can't bare to look at myself in the mirror now that they have gone and signed a deal with The Devil -- now I have to go and ammend my upcoming textbook for PostgreSQL! I could never support MySQL again.
Comments like that make me want to hunt you down and slap some sense into you. It's fecking software for christsakes.
Supersonic flight means that a miniscule problem can sometimes cause the whole damned thing to disintegrate in mid-air into scrap metal.
That's simply bullshit. There is NOTHING magical about being supersonic. In fact, drag (and thus stress on the airframe) actually dips DOWN quite a bit just through the sound barrier. This is why you see few if any planes that just barely break mach 1. If it has enough thrust to go supersonic at all, it'll get to at least mach 1.7 or so. Mach 2 is NOT rocket science. This is not the shuttle re-entering at Mach 30.
I don't think I can think of a *single* incident in which an aircraft has broken up during supersonic flight, excepting the early, fatally flawed attempts in the 1940s. There is counter-evidence as well. The SR-71s would sometimes stall an engine at Mach 3, resulting in a hard yaw to the side. That never broke the wings off any of 'em. Plane crashes basically happen only during takeoff and landing. Cruise flight is *incredibly* safe. You're up above the birds, the majority of the weather, etc. Besides that, losing your wings or half of the fuselage at 500mph is no LESS fatal than at 1500.
How often does it actual return cargo? I can't think of too many times when it has. The problem is that it's a horrible compromise. The factors that make for a good cargo craft are quite dissemalar from what makes a good manned craft.
What do you expect? The shuttle is a peice of junk. Was when it first flew, and it's even more true today. Stupid Air Force jocks set the space program back 30 years.
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Basically the reason is that as is, it's about as high as is practical for the shuttle to reach. Any higher and the effective cargo lift to it would be 0.
Commercial airliners are typically pressurised to 8000ft or so.
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== 0 if x LESS THAN 1
== 1 if x EQUALS 1
== Infinity if x GREATER THAN 1
(for positive x)
Yea, total bs. An infinite series of x>0, will either be 0 (if x 1
1/3 = .3_ (_ means repeating decimal)
.9_ .9_ =1
3/3 = 1
3 * 1/3 =
Uh, lisp is EXTREMLY readable, assuming yoour're using a lisp-aware editor.
Yes, in a world in which 95% of users can't grasp simple boolean modifiers, such a scheme would surely be a success!
I doubt this will really go like that. A rather key difference IMO is that Google is only showing small excerpts of text, not the entire work.
My impression is that the real money was in licensing it to cell phone makers anyway.
Professionalism: wrong - all in all most of the OSS I see is more professionally done than the closed sourced crap I have to work with. Umm, yea. That's why there are so many sites peppered with "Windoze", "M$", etc. There are certainly professional OSS sites out there, but there are also quite a few supposed "software" sites that seem to serve as nothing more than a place for the author to rant and rave.
Comments like that make me want to hunt you down and slap some sense into you. It's fecking software for christsakes.
Funny you should say that, since Myst was like the ORIGINAL style-over-substance game.
Supersonic flight means that a miniscule problem can sometimes cause the whole damned thing to disintegrate in mid-air into scrap metal.
That's simply bullshit. There is NOTHING magical about being supersonic. In fact, drag (and thus stress on the airframe) actually dips DOWN quite a bit just through the sound barrier. This is why you see few if any planes that just barely break mach 1. If it has enough thrust to go supersonic at all, it'll get to at least mach 1.7 or so. Mach 2 is NOT rocket science. This is not the shuttle re-entering at Mach 30.
Huh?
I don't think I can think of a *single* incident in which an aircraft has broken up during supersonic flight, excepting the early, fatally flawed attempts in the 1940s. There is counter-evidence as well. The SR-71s would sometimes stall an engine at Mach 3, resulting in a hard yaw to the side. That never broke the wings off any of 'em. Plane crashes basically happen only during takeoff and landing. Cruise flight is *incredibly* safe. You're up above the birds, the majority of the weather, etc. Besides that, losing your wings or half of the fuselage at 500mph is no LESS fatal than at 1500.
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I'm not nervous. Casinos make your average government mint look insecure by comparison.
Don't fall for that trap. There is very little commerical open source. Most of what is, the money comes NOT from licensing but from support.
if you fired it retrograde with decent velocity it should burn with in hours.
If it's truly junk, why not just jettison it retrograde and let it burn? Heck, you'd even get a small energy boost. Like a ghetto mass driver.
How often does it actual return cargo? I can't think of too many times when it has. The problem is that it's a horrible compromise. The factors that make for a good cargo craft are quite dissemalar from what makes a good manned craft.
Troll!?! How can it be a troll if it's TRUE?
What do you expect? The shuttle is a peice of junk. Was when it first flew, and it's even more true today. Stupid Air Force jocks set the space program back 30 years.
Exactly, that's my point. It seems some subset of slashdot submitters are trying to bend it to mean a hack.
Could people PLEASE STOP USING THIS. Seriously, shove it up your blogosphere.
THIS is a subwoofer.