IIRC, just after the Columbia disaster it was noted that Columbia was the only shuttle whose cargo bay was still large enough to hold Hubble. All the others have been refit with new crew stations that take some space away from the cargo bay.
If Hubble were to be brought back, they would have to remove the new crew stations from one of the remaining shuttles.
Seriously. It's the only plan I've ever seen that addresses all of the issues and is fraud resistant, too. Of course, I'm cynical enough to believe that its fraud-resitance will be the reason it is never adopted.
But then, it always makes me laugh that people buy 'brand name' pain-killers at something like 5-10x the price of no-name brands.
For many products, I agree completely. For others, the difference isn't in the active ingredient, it's in the filler. Can't stand the taste of asprin? Maybe the name brand is coated. The name brand hydrocortizone cream soaks into your skin quickly and gets right to work. I tried a generic once that had a waxy cream base that just sat on top of my skin and didn't do anything. I've noticed that generic Vitamin C tends to turn brownish more quickly that the name brands do.
The active ingredients are the same, but that's not always the whole story.
The most blatent example of weird ad wording, IMHO, was the Hostess Cupcakes ad several years ago. Mom gives the kids some cupcakes and says to the camera, "I like to know that my kids are getting a nutritional snack when they come home from school."
Nutritional? She must have meant "nutritious," right? How can they possibly claim that Hostess Cupcakes are nutritious? But wait - when the ad company is spending big bucks to shoot an ad, wouldn't they just reshoot the scene if the actress blows the line? One would think.
So they obviously meant "nutritional." I looked up the word in the dictionary and found that it simply means "edible."
Please, please, please!! Leave "metric" out of this. Metric is Evil - the spawn of Satan.
Especially the "metric tonne" which tries to be tricky and make people believe it's a ton, which is not metric, even while saying it's really metric, but hoping everyone will just ignore that word because "tonne" sounds so English and un-metric.
We've always had "nautical miles" (which really aren't all that naughty, compared to some things you find on the web) and everyone understands that they are different, bigger miles. No one's sure just how much bigger, but it doesn't seem to matter - all we need to know is that they're bigger and we shouldn't use them for math.
What we need is a new kind of bytes, say "digital bytes" or "eBytes" and all we need to know is that they're bigger and we shouldn't use them for math.
We can stll use them for comparisons (Compare Logical, but not Compare Algebraic) to see which hard drive is bigger. We just can't get an absolute value for drive size.
See? Life can be so simple when you're willing to make up your own rules.
My guess is the museum will hold long gone stuff like "search for previous art".
Actually, it is designed to display the old geezer who performs the search for previous art. After he dies, they plan to stuff him and prop him up in his chair in a realistic pose wearing his green visor and with his quill pen at the ready.
Admittedly, his efficiency will be lower than when he was alive, but only slightly lower.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how to actually implement a (potentially) workable sales tax on internet items?
This may sound frivolous but I'm being serious. Everyone's answer is, "Whatever benefits me the most."
To the consumer this means, "No taxes." To the state politicians this means, "Tax everything, but I'll exempt myself from paying." And finally to the businessman this means, "Tax everyone else's sales so that I'll have an edge."
"Fair" really doesn't enter into it really, although the term "fair" will be used by everyone to justify their favorite plan. "Greed" is the operative word, here.
Do not fight against nature, Grasshopper. Be like the willow and bend in the wind.
Stop fishing for crabs with electronical fishing rods. It frustrates you and it annoys the crabs.
Fish instead for steelhead and when they are electroplated with manganese by the random discharges of your capacitors, you can sell them for a premium price.
Furthermore Grasshopper, do not curse your luck for the plating on your hull. Instead, give thanks for your good fortune that your fishing boat is not filled by amorous electric eels that are attracted by your discharges.
I have two W2K boxes running FastTrak TX2-100 cards. One has two drives mirrored, the other has two mirrored drives and two other single drives on the TX2. I've had no issues with data corruption or blue screens.
The one thing I don't like is that when I had a flakey power cable and a drive kept powering off, the Promise card would declare the mirror broken and insist on an offline rebuild before boot-up could continue. The "bad" drive's data was fine. It had just dropped power momentarily, but still I had to wait for a 55 minute rebuild.
In 1997 I played around a bit with NT4 software RAID. It was a pain to recover a secondary drive if the primary failed. With the Promise that's not a problem.
The other good thing is that you can swap controller cards and the new card will see the old card's mirror. That's handy for troubleshooting.
The slowness at boot time (with the dots) seems to be related to looking for drives that aren't there. The box with four drives gets through the Promise scan much quicker than the box with only two drives.
I bought a Silicon Image no-name card for $10 recently but haven't tried it yet. From some of the comments above it sounds like I should throw the card away and figure that $10 for two ATA-100 IDE cables was a fair deal.:)
That's all well and good, but copyright protects those who do create for profit. Given that, if you are solely creating for creativity's sake, you are free to release your songs to the public domain as an independent artist. Let copyright law apply to those who require it to make a living.
It seems that those who start out thinking, "I'd like some income. I think I'll write some songs" tend to suck compared to those who begin with, "Songs are cool. I think I'll write some songs."
If the latter group finds that people actually like their songs, then they can say, "These songs are worth money. They can provide me with a source of income." It is their right, both legally and morally, to copyright their creations and profit from them.
What often happens though is that after a while they start thinking, "I'd like some more income. I think I'll write some more songs" and then they start to suck. We've seen it over and over - artists start out with a bang and then fade away after several years.
The original poster has avoided falling into this trap and I, for one, admire him/her for it.
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Think Billie Holliday with a smoother voice recorded on modern equipment. Think soft jazz/blues.
I bought the CD for my wife and was surprised that it was very listenable for me, a non-jazz type.They just translate everything into Esperanto.
But then the photo showed a wire trailing off underneath and I was like, totally bummed.
If Hubble were to be brought back, they would have to remove the new crew stations from one of the remaining shuttles.
But at least the press leaves a paper trail.
You should patent that before someone else does.
Seriously. It's the only plan I've ever seen that addresses all of the issues and is fraud resistant, too. Of course, I'm cynical enough to believe that its fraud-resitance will be the reason it is never adopted.For many products, I agree completely. For others, the difference isn't in the active ingredient, it's in the filler. Can't stand the taste of asprin? Maybe the name brand is coated. The name brand hydrocortizone cream soaks into your skin quickly and gets right to work. I tried a generic once that had a waxy cream base that just sat on top of my skin and didn't do anything. I've noticed that generic Vitamin C tends to turn brownish more quickly that the name brands do.
The active ingredients are the same, but that's not always the whole story.Nutritional? She must have meant "nutritious," right? How can they possibly claim that Hostess Cupcakes are nutritious? But wait - when the ad company is spending big bucks to shoot an ad, wouldn't they just reshoot the scene if the actress blows the line? One would think.
So they obviously meant "nutritional." I looked up the word in the dictionary and found that it simply means "edible."See? There is truth in advertising!
That's modern science at work, my friend - it may be as obvious as the nose on your face, but it ain't official until you pay for a "study".
Especially the "metric tonne" which tries to be tricky and make people believe it's a ton, which is not metric, even while saying it's really metric, but hoping everyone will just ignore that word because "tonne" sounds so English and un-metric.
We've always had "nautical miles" (which really aren't all that naughty, compared to some things you find on the web) and everyone understands that they are different, bigger miles. No one's sure just how much bigger, but it doesn't seem to matter - all we need to know is that they're bigger and we shouldn't use them for math.What we need is a new kind of bytes, say "digital bytes" or "eBytes" and all we need to know is that they're bigger and we shouldn't use them for math.
We can stll use them for comparisons (Compare Logical, but not Compare Algebraic) to see which hard drive is bigger. We just can't get an absolute value for drive size.See? Life can be so simple when you're willing to make up your own rules.
I'd be mending some fences, my AC friend.
Actually, it is designed to display the old geezer who performs the search for previous art. After he dies, they plan to stuff him and prop him up in his chair in a realistic pose wearing his green visor and with his quill pen at the ready.
Admittedly, his efficiency will be lower than when he was alive, but only slightly lower.This may sound frivolous but I'm being serious. Everyone's answer is, "Whatever benefits me the most."
To the consumer this means, "No taxes." To the state politicians this means, "Tax everything, but I'll exempt myself from paying." And finally to the businessman this means, "Tax everyone else's sales so that I'll have an edge.""Fair" really doesn't enter into it really, although the term "fair" will be used by everyone to justify their favorite plan. "Greed" is the operative word, here.
What? Me cynical?There are in fact only 16 of them, but they multiplex into a virtual legion of 4096.
As ugly as it is, if it doesn't come back by itself, someone will surely return it to you. No one would want to keep it.
Stop fishing for crabs with electronical fishing rods. It frustrates you and it annoys the crabs.
Fish instead for steelhead and when they are electroplated with manganese by the random discharges of your capacitors, you can sell them for a premium price.Furthermore Grasshopper, do not curse your luck for the plating on your hull. Instead, give thanks for your good fortune that your fishing boat is not filled by amorous electric eels that are attracted by your discharges.
"MY hovercraft is full of eels, too!!"
"The Nokia 7600 will fit anywhere! *"
Yep, looks like it will.* When inserted with sufficient force.
Back then I did have an IBM-165 which I shared with the rest of the corporation on weekdays, but Sundays from 8AM-4PM it was mine and mine alone.
Yet I lusted after something like the MCM/70.It wasn't until 1979 that I could afford a micro, so you could say that I lusted my way through most of the '70s. ;)
So it costs as much to run as a car that gets 26MPG?
And it's tiny. I would have expected about half of that cost.Maybe they're using imperial gallons, which is what? 1/12th of a hogshead or something?
I guess that depends on where you grab 'em and on how hard you squeeze.
Ah, but you will one day, Grasshopper. You most certainly will.
The one thing I don't like is that when I had a flakey power cable and a drive kept powering off, the Promise card would declare the mirror broken and insist on an offline rebuild before boot-up could continue. The "bad" drive's data was fine. It had just dropped power momentarily, but still I had to wait for a 55 minute rebuild.
In 1997 I played around a bit with NT4 software RAID. It was a pain to recover a secondary drive if the primary failed. With the Promise that's not a problem.The other good thing is that you can swap controller cards and the new card will see the old card's mirror. That's handy for troubleshooting.
The slowness at boot time (with the dots) seems to be related to looking for drives that aren't there. The box with four drives gets through the Promise scan much quicker than the box with only two drives.I bought a Silicon Image no-name card for $10 recently but haven't tried it yet. From some of the comments above it sounds like I should throw the card away and figure that $10 for two ATA-100 IDE cables was a fair deal. :)
It seems that those who start out thinking, "I'd like some income. I think I'll write some songs" tend to suck compared to those who begin with, "Songs are cool. I think I'll write some songs."
If the latter group finds that people actually like their songs, then they can say, "These songs are worth money. They can provide me with a source of income." It is their right, both legally and morally, to copyright their creations and profit from them.What often happens though is that after a while they start thinking, "I'd like some more income. I think I'll write some more songs" and then they start to suck. We've seen it over and over - artists start out with a bang and then fade away after several years.
The original poster has avoided falling into this trap and I, for one, admire him/her for it.Yes, but at least it won't be because the power cord isn't plugged in.
This isn't just a law of thermodynamics, but a law of marketing as well.
Remember when 486 chips were really cool? Now they're not at all cool. Time does that to things.According to my kids, time has done that to me, too. I can remember when I was really cool, back in the day...