There have been articles in the last several months about a slowdown in 777 aircraft sales. 747-8 sales never did really happen. 747 (and A380) freighter sales never happened as expected. Maybe redesigns are getting postponed? I'm told 757s are popular because there is no real replacement.
Trump and the Air Force One order: I don't think anything has changed despite Trump's bluster. It is still a proposed purchase of 2 747-8s customized to meet Air Force requirements. They will be very expensive.
Sarah Hoyt has a lot of opinions about lots of things. The larger crowd of voters elected not to reward any of the Puppy nominees. I would have voted the same way. That's not a clique, that's everyone _outside_ the clique. Personally, I would have participated if "City of Stairs" had been on the ballot, but it wasn't. A conspiracy! It's those damn FJWs! or SJWs or whatever.
My default browser under Linux, and since the lastest Chrome update provided this week, kinda the only one. As of this week's Chrome update (41.0.2272.76-1), it crashes X on app startup; you lose all your work in open apps. Presumably openGL-related; last year there arose a requirement to do something as root udev-ish. An app that can crash other apps: great.
Even on Windows, Chrome is less useful: fat, slow, etc.
I saw the premiere in the student union, the only place on campus where we could watch ABC. It was interrupted by the signing of the Camp David peace treaty between Begin and Arafat, ran late. It was crap. Over the course of the season, fewer folks wandered into the student union to watch it.
Not even a writer for the original Trek would have made that mistake, and we know how those guys felt about keeping things plausible: Nazi planet, gangster planet, second Earth, and so forth.
We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars?
Kif, I'm asking you a question.
There are web pages out there about the construction of the TNG model ships. The large one was quite detailed but also very smooth. The painted detail didn't show up in SD, only on Blu-ray, and the model was too large and delicate to work with. So they built a cruder, less smooth, and smaller model. The big one had cracked by the time it was auctioned off.
The TOS model seems to have been filmed only on 4 or 5 occasions: for the 1st and 2nd pilots, for Corbomite Maneuver stock shots reused throughout the series, maybe something later in the 1st season, and for some 2nd season stock shots that replaced the older ones. The film grain on all but the last batch hides the fact that the model has little detail.
The movie models in auction photos online look like works of art, mostly due to the paint jobs.
As the linked-to article indicates, because most districts in VA were Republican, any DMV closings made on the basis of cost and number of customers served had to affect Republicans. For what it's worth, my local non-Republican-serving Arlington DMV office was also closed, and Arlington customers had to go stand in the massive line in Tysons. (I think the story was: immigrants could acquire a VA drivers license without proof of legal residency relatively easily up until a certain point after 9/11. The Tysons office was swamped until that and other things changed.)
Not really. Orbital is using old rocket motors from the Soviet moon rocket that was cancelled after Apollo 11. There is a limited supply of stockpiled and usable units. The last time it was in the news, Orbital still hadn't come up with a long-term source with which to meet the next NASA contract. SpaceX builds its own rocket engines. The Atlas V is the sole export customer for currently-produced Russian kerosene-fueled engines, and the Delta IV uses presumably expensive LH2 engines. This is all for the first stage.
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There have been articles in the last several months about a slowdown in 777 aircraft sales. 747-8 sales never did really happen. 747 (and A380) freighter sales never happened as expected. Maybe redesigns are getting postponed? I'm told 757s are popular because there is no real replacement. Trump and the Air Force One order: I don't think anything has changed despite Trump's bluster. It is still a proposed purchase of 2 747-8s customized to meet Air Force requirements. They will be very expensive.
Sarah Hoyt has a lot of opinions about lots of things. The larger crowd of voters elected not to reward any of the Puppy nominees. I would have voted the same way. That's not a clique, that's everyone _outside_ the clique. Personally, I would have participated if "City of Stairs" had been on the ballot, but it wasn't. A conspiracy! It's those damn FJWs! or SJWs or whatever.
_You_ try looking inside OpenSSL. It causes bad dreams.
At least you can listen to your 8-tracks at your desk without coworkers complaining.
Linux 4.0 should be named Thunderdome?
My default browser under Linux, and since the lastest Chrome update provided this week, kinda the only one. As of this week's Chrome update (41.0.2272.76-1), it crashes X on app startup; you lose all your work in open apps. Presumably openGL-related; last year there arose a requirement to do something as root udev-ish. An app that can crash other apps: great. Even on Windows, Chrome is less useful: fat, slow, etc.
As decoration, pieces of the set, the Tektronix stuff looked good. It's a shame the scripts were so bad.
I saw the premiere in the student union, the only place on campus where we could watch ABC. It was interrupted by the signing of the Camp David peace treaty between Begin and Arafat, ran late. It was crap. Over the course of the season, fewer folks wandered into the student union to watch it.
Hey, it _usually_ compiles.
Not even a writer for the original Trek would have made that mistake, and we know how those guys felt about keeping things plausible: Nazi planet, gangster planet, second Earth, and so forth.
Death by snu-snu
She provides that much more constructive criticism.
And we played Pong!
But it's all uphill on your drive back!
We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars? Kif, I'm asking you a question.
There are web pages out there about the construction of the TNG model ships. The large one was quite detailed but also very smooth. The painted detail didn't show up in SD, only on Blu-ray, and the model was too large and delicate to work with. So they built a cruder, less smooth, and smaller model. The big one had cracked by the time it was auctioned off. The TOS model seems to have been filmed only on 4 or 5 occasions: for the 1st and 2nd pilots, for Corbomite Maneuver stock shots reused throughout the series, maybe something later in the 1st season, and for some 2nd season stock shots that replaced the older ones. The film grain on all but the last batch hides the fact that the model has little detail. The movie models in auction photos online look like works of art, mostly due to the paint jobs.
The Pontiac Aztek was pretty repellent. Or maybe repulsive.
Agreed. A moderately complex Word .doc or .docx file, say 50 pages or so, with figures, cannot be reliably opened by LibreOffice.
As the linked-to article indicates, because most districts in VA were Republican, any DMV closings made on the basis of cost and number of customers served had to affect Republicans. For what it's worth, my local non-Republican-serving Arlington DMV office was also closed, and Arlington customers had to go stand in the massive line in Tysons. (I think the story was: immigrants could acquire a VA drivers license without proof of legal residency relatively easily up until a certain point after 9/11. The Tysons office was swamped until that and other things changed.)
Not really. Orbital is using old rocket motors from the Soviet moon rocket that was cancelled after Apollo 11. There is a limited supply of stockpiled and usable units. The last time it was in the news, Orbital still hadn't come up with a long-term source with which to meet the next NASA contract. SpaceX builds its own rocket engines. The Atlas V is the sole export customer for currently-produced Russian kerosene-fueled engines, and the Delta IV uses presumably expensive LH2 engines. This is all for the first stage.