If you have trouble finding a job, where does it say that you have to put the PhD on the resume? Maybe you just spent a few years at a university as a research asst...
I've never understood the "over qualified" position. Who cares if you're over qualified? The employer should have an idea of how much he's willing to pay to put a person in a given job, and the person must meet a minimum criteria. Leave it up to the potential employee to accept or deny the job based on what he/she thinks they're worth.
no kiddin'. seemed like he was trying hard to turn everything upside down.
The basic problem is that the OSP, as currently defined, must carry such heavy mass penalties in the form of wings, wheels, and various escape systems that its performance will not be much better than the Dyna-Soar design of 40 years ago.
Oh, so a plane doesn't need winds and wheels. Somebody tell Boeing.
OSP will force NASA to simultaneously fly two very expensive man-rated vehicles at a time when it is financially unable to support even one
Newsflash, Shuttle is man-rated. Jeffrey Bell says Station is not.
Regarding minimum crew capacity: I know of no other aerospace program in which the basic performance goal has been lowered by a factor of FOUR in the first few months!
Gimme a break. The supply craft will have a crew of 0! That's like an infinite reduction in capability! Somebody call the President!
I disagree. Let's imagine for a minute that everyone provides an accurate profile, targeted marketing works, sales increase, and the advertiser gets rich.
You really think that the money they spend on advertising will level off?
7. Once you opened the package, you couldn't return it after you discovered they were left-handed pens... and your left arm had be severed in a terrible schmelting accident.
The heat loads are similar while in a roll (within a 100 deg F or so but on the order of about 3000 deg F temps). An on-orbit cold soak and non-rolling entry may have bought a few seconds, but with the same result.
You got your $50 worth...I didn't get mine. OpenOffice, The Gimp, and Jabber ARE ok for me, so I don't have a need for WinXP. Installation of SuSE & relevant apps takes 20-30 min, so the $50 savings IS worth my time. The point I was debating was calling a pre-installed OS a tax. To some, it is. To others, such as yourself, it isn't. That's fair, isn't it?
A better analogy would be that every new house comes standard with a swimming pool and a swing set, regardless of your death fear of water or your lack of children. If I don't want it, why do I have to pay for it?
So yes, many consider it a tax, and justifiably so.
Is $50 worth your time to download, configure and install an OS, as well as downloading, configuring, and installing any applications you want because you can't buy them at a store? If you're so non-chalant about $50, I'll take it off your hands. But hey, you ask a fair question, and I'm glad that you did ask it. Because nobody did when I bought my laptop.
First off, you lose credibility by referring to our President as shrub.
Secondly, your facts are unsubstantiated and wrong. Allow me to demonstrate:
our economy which shrub has put in the dumpster
Dow Jones Industrial Average, last 5 yrs. Notice it peaked around Feb/Mar 2000. Bush was elected Nov 2000, took office Jan 2001. The downward trend was well on its way by then.
more than one a day since shrub declared we "won" the war
From CNN today near the bottom of the article, "Nineteen U.S. troops have been killed in hostile action since President Bush declared an end to major combat in Iraq on May 1..." Let's see, this is the 23rd of June, so let's call it ~50 days since the war ended. 19/50 is not greater than 1... I can't follow your math...
lying about the quality of the intelligence of the threat of weapons of mass distruction this while mess was based on
Sorry, I can't find a link that gives evidence that he wasn't lying. Perhaps the impetus is on you to find one that shows he was. Apparently your feelings toward the President are obscuring your view of reality?
Thank you Dr. Nasa. At least you made your ignorance known first thing. The CAIB report should be out next month - that's what will address the constraints to flight.
Steps are currently being taken to correct the ET foam issue, the weld on the SRB bolts have too low of a factor of safety so a fix will be incorporated there, and procedures are being generated and analyzed for on-orbit TPS inspections. I'm sure there will be other recommendations - more technical stuff and maybe Nasa cultural type stuff (civil servants vs. contractors w/r/t program duties).
Please, don't pass off your ASSumptions as fact. Sorry for the rant, but it rubbed me the wrong way.
Wal-mart's core customer group are not exactly likely to own DVD players
At $40 or so for a DVD player, who can't afford one?
Well, how much are you going to be able to slash prices on an online DVD rental?
I doubt that's the point. People do their grocery shopping at Wal-mart since groceries are there too. Now they won't have to stop by the video store on the way home either.
Good points. It's easy to point the finger at seemingly faceless corporations. Here's a question to ask ourselves - do we shop only at Younker's or Macy's, or do we feel it's better to save money and shop at Wal-mart? Probably not the best analogy since the exporting of labor brings about a patriotic argument as well.
But that brings up yet another point - don't point fingers at corporations about how they have no loyalty to the US workforce, and then drive home in your fsckin' Honda or Toyota.
Sorry, I wish I could have presented a more balanced and non-wandering argument, but, well, ya know...
at time of impact was at 50,000+ feet, the force of air drag on the foam would be negligible
If drag is negligible at 50k ft, then please explain to me why the shuttle broke up at 200k ft.
I think that this was the level of intuitive analysis that was done. Unfortunately, it wasn't backed up by any kind of quantitative analysis using known facts...
Where do you get this stuff? Now you're making assumptions as to what took place in meetings you never attended? Wow.
What really gets me is that whenever there's an MS problem the/. crowd complains about ignorant users who don't patch. Now the patchers are the problem?
Where did you get the idea that the patchers are the problem? I don't think anyone has taken that stance.
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in case you're wondering what there is to do in Slidell, LA...
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Hey! Wait a minute, these apples look nothing like those oranges.
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Only if you count the useless miles that the shuttle takes on its circuitous route
Insightful? WTF? Mission goals. Maybe you should edumacate yourself. Why should orbital miles be deemed useless? That's where the real work is done. Microgravity. 17,500 mph. Extreme thermal gradients. Orbital debris. Vacuum environment. It's not a safe place to be and you vote to discount that mileage since they're useless? Wow.
I hope eyes, ears, and mouths don't count as commuication devices or services...
But then again, the next time I get dragged into HR for "inappropriate discussion", I'll sue whoever was offended, as the conversation was not meant to be stolen (ooh, how about pirated?) by the offendee.
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If you have trouble finding a job, where does it say that you have to put the PhD on the resume? Maybe you just spent a few years at a university as a research asst...
I've never understood the "over qualified" position. Who cares if you're over qualified? The employer should have an idea of how much he's willing to pay to put a person in a given job, and the person must meet a minimum criteria. Leave it up to the potential employee to accept or deny the job based on what he/she thinks they're worth.
I d'loaded it till it got to 99% done and stopped the transfer. On purpose.
Does that mean I'm going to hell?
any chance you might put together a couple wiring diagrams?
go ahead and load up the page on the sound chip and bathe in the bgsound midi splendor that is jingle bells, banjo style (http://www.aplusinc.com.tw/reason.mid).
it's too early for this...
no kiddin'. seemed like he was trying hard to turn everything upside down.
The basic problem is that the OSP, as currently defined, must carry such heavy mass penalties in the form of wings, wheels, and various escape systems that its performance will not be much better than the Dyna-Soar design of 40 years ago.
Oh, so a plane doesn't need winds and wheels. Somebody tell Boeing.
OSP will force NASA to simultaneously fly two very expensive man-rated vehicles at a time when it is financially unable to support even one
Newsflash, Shuttle is man-rated. Jeffrey Bell says Station is not.
Regarding minimum crew capacity: I know of no other aerospace program in which the basic performance goal has been lowered by a factor of FOUR in the first few months!
Gimme a break. The supply craft will have a crew of 0! That's like an infinite reduction in capability! Somebody call the President!
I disagree. Let's imagine for a minute that everyone provides an accurate profile, targeted marketing works, sales increase, and the advertiser gets rich.
You really think that the money they spend on advertising will level off?
7. Once you opened the package, you couldn't return it after you discovered they were left-handed pens... and your left arm had be severed in a terrible schmelting accident.
The heat loads are similar while in a roll (within a 100 deg F or so but on the order of about 3000 deg F temps). An on-orbit cold soak and non-rolling entry may have bought a few seconds, but with the same result.
before the orbit decayed and it came down
a controlled entry would be planned over a remote part of the ocean. it's better than crossing your fingers.
that's all most mums and dads need
Agreed. But they don't realize that's all they need.
ok, fine. [unveiling true colors...] i hate that ms strong arms vendors. there i said it.
while i'm at it: i hate wal-mart, i hate people who follow me in the parking lot as i walk to me car, and i hate that the heat index is 109 today.
[sigh]
You got your $50 worth...I didn't get mine. OpenOffice, The Gimp, and Jabber ARE ok for me, so I don't have a need for WinXP. Installation of SuSE & relevant apps takes 20-30 min, so the $50 savings IS worth my time. The point I was debating was calling a pre-installed OS a tax. To some, it is. To others, such as yourself, it isn't. That's fair, isn't it?
This just in: apples are different than oranges.
A better analogy would be that every new house comes standard with a swimming pool and a swing set, regardless of your death fear of water or your lack of children. If I don't want it, why do I have to pay for it?
So yes, many consider it a tax, and justifiably so.
Is $50 worth your time to download, configure and install an OS, as well as downloading, configuring, and installing any applications you want because you can't buy them at a store?
If you're so non-chalant about $50, I'll take it off your hands. But hey, you ask a fair question, and I'm glad that you did ask it. Because nobody did when I bought my laptop.
First off, you lose credibility by referring to our President as shrub.
Secondly, your facts are unsubstantiated and wrong. Allow me to demonstrate:
Dow Jones Industrial Average, last 5 yrs. Notice it peaked around Feb/Mar 2000. Bush was elected Nov 2000, took office Jan 2001. The downward trend was well on its way by then.
From CNN today near the bottom of the article, "Nineteen U.S. troops have been killed in hostile action since President Bush declared an end to major combat in Iraq on May 1..." Let's see, this is the 23rd of June, so let's call it ~50 days since the war ended. 19/50 is not greater than 1
Sorry, I can't find a link that gives evidence that he wasn't lying. Perhaps the impetus is on you to find one that shows he was. Apparently your feelings toward the President are obscuring your view of reality?
they aren't fixing any of the actual problems
Thank you Dr. Nasa. At least you made your ignorance known first thing. The CAIB report should be out next month - that's what will address the constraints to flight.
Steps are currently being taken to correct the ET foam issue, the weld on the SRB bolts have too low of a factor of safety so a fix will be incorporated there, and procedures are being generated and analyzed for on-orbit TPS inspections. I'm sure there will be other recommendations - more technical stuff and maybe Nasa cultural type stuff (civil servants vs. contractors w/r/t program duties).
Please, don't pass off your ASSumptions as fact. Sorry for the rant, but it rubbed me the wrong way.
Wal-mart's core customer group are not exactly likely to own DVD players
At $40 or so for a DVD player, who can't afford one?
Well, how much are you going to be able to slash prices on an online DVD rental?
I doubt that's the point. People do their grocery shopping at Wal-mart since groceries are there too. Now they won't have to stop by the video store on the way home either.
yeah, next time change it to sh1t since it's more professional.
shouldn't slashdot be one of the last places to visit if you're easily offended?
Good points. It's easy to point the finger at seemingly faceless corporations. Here's a question to ask ourselves - do we shop only at Younker's or Macy's, or do we feel it's better to save money and shop at Wal-mart? Probably not the best analogy since the exporting of labor brings about a patriotic argument as well.
But that brings up yet another point - don't point fingers at corporations about how they have no loyalty to the US workforce, and then drive home in your fsckin' Honda or Toyota.
Sorry, I wish I could have presented a more balanced and non-wandering argument, but, well, ya know...
at time of impact was at 50,000+ feet, the force of air drag on the foam would be negligible
If drag is negligible at 50k ft, then please explain to me why the shuttle broke up at 200k ft.
I think that this was the level of intuitive analysis that was done. Unfortunately, it wasn't backed up by any kind of quantitative analysis using known facts...
Where do you get this stuff? Now you're making assumptions as to what took place in meetings you never attended? Wow.
What really gets me is that whenever there's an MS problem the /. crowd complains about ignorant users who don't patch. Now the patchers are the problem?
Where did you get the idea that the patchers are the problem? I don't think anyone has taken that stance.
in case you're wondering what there is to do in Slidell, LA...
Hey! Wait a minute, these apples look nothing like those oranges.
Only if you count the useless miles that the shuttle takes on its circuitous route
Insightful? WTF? Mission goals. Maybe you should edumacate yourself. Why should orbital miles be deemed useless? That's where the real work is done. Microgravity. 17,500 mph. Extreme thermal gradients. Orbital debris. Vacuum environment. It's not a safe place to be and you vote to discount that mileage since they're useless? Wow.
OT, but oh well...WD40 also gets crayon off walls.
I hope eyes, ears, and mouths don't count as commuication devices or services...
But then again, the next time I get dragged into HR for "inappropriate discussion", I'll sue whoever was offended, as the conversation was not meant to be stolen (ooh, how about pirated?) by the offendee.