From Space X's website : "Today marks the start of the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar, and this year, SpaceX's Dragon will become the first privately developed spacecraft to visit the International Space Station."
I hope so, or we may eventually have to rely on Chinese launch capabilities.
Yeah, when I first read Racing the Beam (a book about the 2600) I thought that had to be a typo. Programmers had to do some heroic things to program that hardware.
Yes, and conservatives complain about the threat of Sharia law while promoting the Christian equivalent to control your personal life. It may not be coherent, but it is consistent.
I can see how they can do this undetected for so long, the Trinity around Dallas is little better than an open sewer. It's nasty and smells really bad.
...destroying the personal computer industry...brainwashed into supporting abandonment of all personal rights...plot to hold the education system at gunpoint
Hyperbole much? For someone complaining about fanaticism, you sound completely crazed. All that because you couldn't figure out how to use an iPad? Yeesh.
They lack... portability? Ok, if you have to carry 5 of them around, I see your point.
Back in my day, that was a benefit. Hauling 30 pounds of books over many, many walked miles everyday in the central Texas heat made me thin and fit. UT can be a large campus when your schedule ping pongs you from one side to the other and back again all day. This was 1985, maybe things have changed:-P
If you believe the state should be mixed with religion (USA founded as a Christian nation and other myths), it probably makes sense to you to have government involved in deeply personal matters like this.
I've assumed for a long time that large shifts in stock valuations that don't appear to have a trigger are just insiders reacting to documents that will become public at a later date. By that time, all the information is already reflected in the price which stays relatively static on the "official" announcement. It's just the way the system works.
My company paid, IIRC, about $12K for a PS/2-80 (16MHz 386 + 4MB RAM). The MCA bus was a nightmare to design for as it was an asynchronous bus and the timing changed for each model. I had a shelf of IBM technical docs released for each new model with the new timing specs which too often broke compatibility with existing MCA cards. So much "innovation". The cases were built like grotesquely heavy tanks though, for better or worse.
I don't buy that. Staying on the ship in fair seas and close to shore to see passengers evacuated *is* just doing your job and is in no way being a hero. It's something I would expect him to do, if for no other reason, from the guilt of knowing he was solely responsible for the disaster in the first place.
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You can tell Opportunity is old as its left turn blinker has been stuck on for a year now.
From Space X's website : "Today marks the start of the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar, and this year, SpaceX's Dragon will become the first privately developed spacecraft to visit the International Space Station."
I hope so, or we may eventually have to rely on Chinese launch capabilities.
Can't we get a decent cell phone plan in this country?
That is up to voters and consumers. Vote at the ballot box and with your wallet and things will improve. Complain on the internet, and not so much.
Yeah, when I first read Racing the Beam (a book about the 2600) I thought that had to be a typo. Programmers had to do some heroic things to program that hardware.
If you haven't seen the movie Micro Men about Clive Sinclair, it is very entertaining. Now playing at your nearest torrent.
That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of corporate rule.
Ha ha, just kidding. I'm sure the EP will fight for the rights of its people. :-D
Yes, and conservatives complain about the threat of Sharia law while promoting the Christian equivalent to control your personal life. It may not be coherent, but it is consistent.
...the choice of candidates will be between a douche or a turd.
Gingrich is the turd from 1997 that didn't fully flush. Long live "Floater" Gingrich!
I can see how they can do this undetected for so long, the Trinity around Dallas is little better than an open sewer. It's nasty and smells really bad.
...destroying the personal computer industry ...brainwashed into supporting abandonment of all personal rights ...plot to hold the education system at gunpoint
Hyperbole much? For someone complaining about fanaticism, you sound completely crazed. All that because you couldn't figure out how to use an iPad? Yeesh.
They lack... portability? Ok, if you have to carry 5 of them around, I see your point.
Back in my day, that was a benefit. Hauling 30 pounds of books over many, many walked miles everyday in the central Texas heat made me thin and fit. UT can be a large campus when your schedule ping pongs you from one side to the other and back again all day. This was 1985, maybe things have changed :-P
Not to mention which branch authorized the TSA in the first place. (Aviation and Transportation Security Act , Pub.L. 107-71 November 19, 2001)
Of course, how else would the children learn from their parent's mistakes?
Politicians have never worked for the people.
But corporations are people, and politicians work for corporations.
If you believe the state should be mixed with religion (USA founded as a Christian nation and other myths), it probably makes sense to you to have government involved in deeply personal matters like this.
Udder bullshit! Moo!
I've assumed for a long time that large shifts in stock valuations that don't appear to have a trigger are just insiders reacting to documents that will become public at a later date. By that time, all the information is already reflected in the price which stays relatively static on the "official" announcement. It's just the way the system works.
Ugh, the PS/2. Burn in hell.
My company paid, IIRC, about $12K for a PS/2-80 (16MHz 386 + 4MB RAM). The MCA bus was a nightmare to design for as it was an asynchronous bus and the timing changed for each model. I had a shelf of IBM technical docs released for each new model with the new timing specs which too often broke compatibility with existing MCA cards. So much "innovation". The cases were built like grotesquely heavy tanks though, for better or worse.
...targeting lifestyle "mistakes"
Doesn't that sound like a conveniently vague catch all for justifying corporate or governmental control over people?
Plan B:
Hundreds of millions of ping pong balls.
Captain Kangaroo to the rescue!
The ship is planned to be sailing with paying passengers in 2013.
With its new captain, Joseph Hazelwood.
...wanted him to automatically be a *hero*
I don't buy that. Staying on the ship in fair seas and close to shore to see passengers evacuated *is* just doing your job and is in no way being a hero. It's something I would expect him to do, if for no other reason, from the guilt of knowing he was solely responsible for the disaster in the first place.
...when your code screams for a goto, use it!
When your code anthropomorphizes, hit the delete key.
I saw one of these on C-SPAN.
See how easy it is to get a building permit and bank loan for a dome.
These guys seem to get by, plus they built a cool space-ship type dome.