This is hardly one of the "first tests" of SpaceShipTwo. I believe they were getting pretty close to the point where they were going to start the first passenger flights.
Remember in the Challenger explosion, when the guy kept reading off telemetry after the explosion? I seem to remember him finally looking up and saying something like "There appears to be a malfunction."
I've been following this project since I saw that great documentary "Black Sky" on SpaceshipOne. It really does look like the first truly reliable commercial means for someone to go into "space" without being an astronaut/cosmonaut or being insanely wealthy. Of course, at $200,000, it isn't within reach of most of us--but it's a helluva lot better than the $20 million that some have spent in the past.
The piece, which measures about 24 by 18 inches (61 cm by 46 cm), did not appear to be a standard part of a Lockheed Electra, but TIGHAR researchers recently began to look into the possibility it might have been installed on the plane as a patch
LOL, that's the most pathetic "evidence" I've seen in a while (and I've been the Creationist Museum). Basically, they found a metal plate and thought it might be from her plane. They took it back, found out that it didn't match any standard part on the plane. And then, rather than admit they were wrong, they still tried to pass it off as hers by saying it "could have been used as a patch." Yeah, I guess that's a possibility--just as it would be with any other random piece of metal that happens to be laying around on any island in the Pacific.
Well, case closed, fellas. These guys done solved the mystery. Put it in the history books.
Once you factor in the aliens, the fact that she was and undercover secret nazi, dark matter, quantum stuff, other dimensions, and the fact that the entire world is a simulation, it makes perfect sense.
I never even finished my 2-week free trial of Hulu Plus because they wanted to charge a monthly fee and STILL force me to watch a show with just as many commercials as it had when it aired. I have no problem with a service that has commercials. I have no problem with a service that charges a monthly fee. But I do have a problem with a service that wants to do BOTH. I will be damned if I'm going to pay for the privilege of being forced to watch a bunch of commercials. Even my cableco's DVR let's me fast-forward through that crap.
Frankly, I think Hulu was a service that was meant to fail be design. It was the television networks trying to make it look like they were doing something to answer companies like Netflix, while making the most half-assed effort they possibly could.
Yet another in a long line of "OMG killer viruses!!!" for the dumbass American people to panic over, the CDC to exploit for funding, and the media to exploit for ratings.
The government of the United States of America is behaving very much like an accomplice to a crime
I wonder if the founding fathers ever could have imagined a world where the government they created would be completely owned and controlled by an oligarchy of huge corporations. Could they have imagined a government where something akin to the Dutch East India Company simply walked in and individually bribed every single Congressman and the President to do their bidding, without the American people even realizing it?
I suppose you think Mitt Romney would have ended it??? Yeah, real champion of the little guy that one.
The fact is that NO ONE who runs for President or Congress anymore opposes H1B's. They're all now completely owned by corporations. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
It's been pretty clear for a very long time now that the entire H1B program has become nothing more than a legal indentured slavery program for U.S. corporations, one that is intended to artificially lower U.S. worker wages and exploit cheap foreign labor without the stigma of "offshoring." This whole pathetic "STEM labor shortage" charade that the big-corps and the U.S. government are colluding on is one of the saddest dog-and-pony shows in U.S. labor history. A lot of degreed programmers can't even get a decent job anymore that pays even a living wage, and still Mark Zuckerberg et. al. are running to Congress crying "We can't get any American workers anymore, give us more H1B's!!!"
Are you kidding, who do you think is giving them backing, if not the U.S. Government? Do you think it's private corporate funding that forbids them from discussing U.S. spying? This venture is about as "private" as Radio Free Europe.
I don't care if its easy and became second nature to you in 5 minutes
MS cares. Because if that was the case with me, it was probably the case with most other users too. And they don't give a flying fuck about a handful of vocal critics on the internet, because there are ALWAYS a handful of vocal critics on the internet bitching and moaning about some shit. A lot of users will skip this generation, just as a lot of users always skip a generation or two between upgrades. But at the end of the day, Windows is still going to be the only OS sitting in most offices and homes. And that's all that matters to MS.
There are just no viable alternatives to Windows right now. OSX only comes on expensive hardware and has almost no support for enterprise users. "Linux" is a fractured mess of confusing distros/UI's with almost zero software support. So, barring IBM reintroducing OS/2 or Google bringing Android to the desktop, Windows simply has no real competitor on the desktop. Right now their biggest threat is people abandoning desktops altogether. But it appears that the tablet market is plateauing, and you can't really do serious work on a smartphone--so I seriously doubt MS is quaking in their boots on that front.
Elon Musk called it two years ago in this interview
Musk had better be careful with his words, because if not, he's going to eat them when one of *his* rockets blows up. No design is flawless, no system that complex is infallible, and accidents happen with everyone. If he parades around yelling "I told you so!" and bragging about his great design then, when one of SpaceX's rockets blows up too, the media will be playing those clips 24/7 and he'll turn from the genius innovator to the arrogant fool overnight.
I recently upgraded my main gaming PC to 8.1 after a rebuild and I don't get all the bitching. It boots a lot faster than Win7, performs just as good (if not better), and the UI differences seem pretty trivial to me. I had gotten used to any changes within an hour. And I like that Security Essentials is now built in and doesn't even require a separate download anymore.
Maybe 8.0 was really godawful or something. But I had no trouble at all going from 7 to 8.1.
Yeah, Halo called from 2001 and told me to tell you that not only haven't you been paying attention for the last decade or so, but you also need to learn fucking English.
Turning de facto standards that have been implemented in actual browsers into a formal specification is how standards work best.
It's funny, back in the day all everyone did on/. was bitch and moan every time MS implemented anything in IE that wasn't W3C standard. Now that it's not THE EVIL MICROSOFT doing it, suddenly everyone is all "FUCK W3C!!!"
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My grandpa always said that Scotsmen and water just don't mix. But then again, maybe he just meant TRUE Scotsmen.
Any company looking to please an organization like that is wasting their time. They're basically just an extortion racket.
This is hardly one of the "first tests" of SpaceShipTwo. I believe they were getting pretty close to the point where they were going to start the first passenger flights.
Well, not TODAY, obviously.
Remember in the Challenger explosion, when the guy kept reading off telemetry after the explosion? I seem to remember him finally looking up and saying something like "There appears to be a malfunction."
They're backed by Richard Branson. No way is he giving up that much potential money that easily.
I've been following this project since I saw that great documentary "Black Sky" on SpaceshipOne. It really does look like the first truly reliable commercial means for someone to go into "space" without being an astronaut/cosmonaut or being insanely wealthy. Of course, at $200,000, it isn't within reach of most of us--but it's a helluva lot better than the $20 million that some have spent in the past.
They will go MEDIEVAL on your ass!
The piece, which measures about 24 by 18 inches (61 cm by 46 cm), did not appear to be a standard part of a Lockheed Electra, but TIGHAR researchers recently began to look into the possibility it might have been installed on the plane as a patch
LOL, that's the most pathetic "evidence" I've seen in a while (and I've been the Creationist Museum). Basically, they found a metal plate and thought it might be from her plane. They took it back, found out that it didn't match any standard part on the plane. And then, rather than admit they were wrong, they still tried to pass it off as hers by saying it "could have been used as a patch." Yeah, I guess that's a possibility--just as it would be with any other random piece of metal that happens to be laying around on any island in the Pacific.
Well, case closed, fellas. These guys done solved the mystery. Put it in the history books.
Once you factor in the aliens, the fact that she was and undercover secret nazi, dark matter, quantum stuff, other dimensions, and the fact that the entire world is a simulation, it makes perfect sense.
IT'S IN THE BIBLE, PEOPLE!!
I never even finished my 2-week free trial of Hulu Plus because they wanted to charge a monthly fee and STILL force me to watch a show with just as many commercials as it had when it aired. I have no problem with a service that has commercials. I have no problem with a service that charges a monthly fee. But I do have a problem with a service that wants to do BOTH. I will be damned if I'm going to pay for the privilege of being forced to watch a bunch of commercials. Even my cableco's DVR let's me fast-forward through that crap.
Frankly, I think Hulu was a service that was meant to fail be design. It was the television networks trying to make it look like they were doing something to answer companies like Netflix, while making the most half-assed effort they possibly could.
He should be more concerned with what he does with his Apple than what he does with his banana.
Yeah, I'm way less concerned about the dick he's sucking here than I am about all the dick he's sucking in China.
Yet another in a long line of "OMG killer viruses!!!" for the dumbass American people to panic over, the CDC to exploit for funding, and the media to exploit for ratings.
The government of the United States of America is behaving very much like an accomplice to a crime
I wonder if the founding fathers ever could have imagined a world where the government they created would be completely owned and controlled by an oligarchy of huge corporations. Could they have imagined a government where something akin to the Dutch East India Company simply walked in and individually bribed every single Congressman and the President to do their bidding, without the American people even realizing it?
So...how's that "Hope and Change" working out
I suppose you think Mitt Romney would have ended it??? Yeah, real champion of the little guy that one.
The fact is that NO ONE who runs for President or Congress anymore opposes H1B's. They're all now completely owned by corporations. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
Yes, YOUR GUY TOO!
It's been pretty clear for a very long time now that the entire H1B program has become nothing more than a legal indentured slavery program for U.S. corporations, one that is intended to artificially lower U.S. worker wages and exploit cheap foreign labor without the stigma of "offshoring." This whole pathetic "STEM labor shortage" charade that the big-corps and the U.S. government are colluding on is one of the saddest dog-and-pony shows in U.S. labor history. A lot of degreed programmers can't even get a decent job anymore that pays even a living wage, and still Mark Zuckerberg et. al. are running to Congress crying "We can't get any American workers anymore, give us more H1B's!!!"
Are you kidding, who do you think is giving them backing, if not the U.S. Government? Do you think it's private corporate funding that forbids them from discussing U.S. spying? This venture is about as "private" as Radio Free Europe.
The most-valuable, second-richest telecommunications company in the world is bankrolling a technology propaganda site called SugarString.com
FTFY
I don't care if its easy and became second nature to you in 5 minutes
MS cares. Because if that was the case with me, it was probably the case with most other users too. And they don't give a flying fuck about a handful of vocal critics on the internet, because there are ALWAYS a handful of vocal critics on the internet bitching and moaning about some shit. A lot of users will skip this generation, just as a lot of users always skip a generation or two between upgrades. But at the end of the day, Windows is still going to be the only OS sitting in most offices and homes. And that's all that matters to MS.
There are just no viable alternatives to Windows right now. OSX only comes on expensive hardware and has almost no support for enterprise users. "Linux" is a fractured mess of confusing distros/UI's with almost zero software support. So, barring IBM reintroducing OS/2 or Google bringing Android to the desktop, Windows simply has no real competitor on the desktop. Right now their biggest threat is people abandoning desktops altogether. But it appears that the tablet market is plateauing, and you can't really do serious work on a smartphone--so I seriously doubt MS is quaking in their boots on that front.
Elon Musk called it two years ago in this interview
Musk had better be careful with his words, because if not, he's going to eat them when one of *his* rockets blows up. No design is flawless, no system that complex is infallible, and accidents happen with everyone. If he parades around yelling "I told you so!" and bragging about his great design then, when one of SpaceX's rockets blows up too, the media will be playing those clips 24/7 and he'll turn from the genius innovator to the arrogant fool overnight.
Facebook still has almost a billion active users. Pretty good numbers for an "abandoned" social media site.
I recently upgraded my main gaming PC to 8.1 after a rebuild and I don't get all the bitching. It boots a lot faster than Win7, performs just as good (if not better), and the UI differences seem pretty trivial to me. I had gotten used to any changes within an hour. And I like that Security Essentials is now built in and doesn't even require a separate download anymore.
Maybe 8.0 was really godawful or something. But I had no trouble at all going from 7 to 8.1.
fps and consoles doesnt mix, pick one
Yeah, Halo called from 2001 and told me to tell you that not only haven't you been paying attention for the last decade or so, but you also need to learn fucking English.
Well, I think we can at least all agree that what the world really needs are a lot more FPS's. It's a videogame genre that's so neglected.
Turning de facto standards that have been implemented in actual browsers into a formal specification is how standards work best.
It's funny, back in the day all everyone did on /. was bitch and moan every time MS implemented anything in IE that wasn't W3C standard. Now that it's not THE EVIL MICROSOFT doing it, suddenly everyone is all "FUCK W3C!!!"