Thank you Suitepotato, for the first post that isn't a tedious whack against German sentence structure and Babelfish.
A studied response, that - but will the fuels of an upper-stage necessarily be cryogenic, especially at the low fuel pressures at the latter life of the fuel supply? I'd be interested in seeing how much of the energy goes into keeping the magnetic post-nozzle configuration alive past that point. But I like the idea, and would be a little surprised if it couldn't be scaled up to main engines. Any efficiency gains at the heavy end of the trajectory would pay off handsomely.
"Kahoonas" are god-like Cojones. An ordinary man will have cojones, 1 pair, for the masculine use thereof. Kahoonas belong to the class of businessman who are the equivalent of that little station wagon revving up next to you (ROFL-- Leetle Station Wagon challenges ME?) that secretly has a Rolls-Merlin in the back seat and a Turbonique hydrogen peroxide engine attached to the diff. Organic cocoanuts attached to the driveshafts. Originally from "Kahuna", the God of Surf and people who hear "Tsunami!" and immediately think "Dude! Where's my surfboard?"
Clustering arrived on the scene with VMS, pre-dating WNT by several years. Spiffy thing, based on a cluster distributed lock manager. Worked just fine with relational databases, was fully symmetric, didn't suck.
The competition would certainly bar solid rocket motors, which go full-out continuously and cannot be throttled or shut down. I cannot imagine any braking system that would allow such a craft to slow down adequately for a "turn.
Hmm... What if the engines were not monolithic, but comprised of a number of discrete cartridges, each of which were unthrottleable, but could be fired in sequence? I could imagine a scenario where they might even use the same cylinder; just gated in some fashion like a sort of complex autoloader weapon. Instead of cartridges with bullets, cartridges of solid propellant. Several of these bundled together could give you controllable solid fuel combustion in measurable discrete impulses. Call it a Gatling Rocket Engine.
Of course if it jams (likely in the first efforts) it simply stops burning. You lose, but you don't explode.
The problem with your argument is that even when we SHOW the decision-makers a better product and advise them against bad ones, they STILL tend to follow the FUD/glitz...
LoL Point taken. But you never advise against bad ones, you advise in favour of good ones - Sales 101. By that I mean you push hard on the cost/benefit of running an OSS solution, let your customer fill in the blanks -- they read the trades too (not to mention the bottom line costs) and generally know to the dime what the proprietary solutions are pillaging them for. Comparing the competition unfavorably is ok in Slashdot, but is unprofessional in a sales environment. More to the point, you never want to mention the competition at all because it will divert their thinking away from your solution and off to your competition's. You want the brain space to be yours, not theirs.
....Usually, the only way to get anywhere is to let the businessman spend the $5M and get burned. THEN they are more willing to listen to you.
You've obviously never worked for (insert name of major telecommunications carrier here). One wasted $5M project is an oversight, three failed $5M projects is the beginning of a corporate standard.
Old days? OLD days? Dang, debugging a backplane with a CRO and a cheap transistor radio to listen to the code run through the M register was the old days. You insensitive young whipper snippers... I mean snapper whippers... Uh, what was I talking about?
I'm a GOM myself, and also believe that in-depth knowledge of what you do will lead to more successful outcomes, despite the need for specialisation.
Case in point: I remember a young grad programmer who was parsing a free-text address into its component parts. Early 4GL (Powerhouse). He was getting about 4 transactions per hour, and couldn't understand why. His logic was impeccable, but he didn't realise the effect of choosing a string of "Else If"'s over a string of "If - End if"'s would have (there being no case statement in that version iirc). He was forcing a huge amount of activity to happen in the the call argument stack, the worst possible structure to use on that platform at the time. Obvious to an old bit-bender, incomprehensible to someone who was never trained to look below the surface. So yes, knowledge in-depth matters.
Kids these days, can't take the pressure of a few fathoms under the object layer (grumble grumble mutter at shoes).
I don't see how any capitalist or libertarian could be in favor of State-Granted lifetime Monopolies. It boggles the mind. State-Granted Monopolies! Wedding the Corporate to the State, the Military-Industrial complex. It reeks of anything but capitalism (and not to poison this post, it does reek of fascism
Precisely, and I agree.
But it's also unconstitutional; since it's clear the U.S. government worships money, this is a clear violation of the principle of separation of church and state.
But if you ask for help, someone asks for clarification or a bit more info THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE ON SITE FOR, it's your fault if you refuse their assistance.
It's never a customer's fault if they don't want to throw money at you, it's yours.
If a customer asks you for help and you don't provide what they want (as opposed to what you believe they need) they will vote with their wallet, and you will be left to simmer in your own juices. I hope your business model holds up.
Guys, we want Linux to take over the world, right? Or at least a bit more market share to counterweight the IT world a bit? I do, you do, right thinking people do. But couldn't we discuss how to do it rather than using up valuable synapse voltage slagging the opposition? That's not how you keep score. We have to show people it's a better product, not tell them. Strategic IT sourcing people want demonstrated case histories of successful implementations or decent counterexamples when stories like this arise, or they'll take it as a clue and spend money on someone other than me, who deserves it a lot more;P. Maybe you're right, but a +5 Insightful ain't going to win the contract. You're not going to get anywhere by telling a businessman he's just spent $5M in bad faith.
If you have an example of an installation that worked right, and are willing to let others talk to you about it, write your success story in a letter and send it to the publishers of TFA.
It's a German company that sells quite rather a lot of software. Whole large businesses run on it, and a cheap installation starts in seven figures and goes up from there. It's a serious suite of software. Check "SAP Specialist" in your favourite job search engine and check the rates they're getting for clue 2. They're big, as in first-page-of-Hitchhiker's-Guide big.
I've checked with the UK's telephone preference service, and aparently there is nothing they can do because these companies are calling from outside the UK.
All the better to let them chatter on while you go out and do a bit of gardening, love. Imagine the international call charges they're racking up. Sweet...
...and a whole lot of F's to S's, so children could at least pronounce the words. Haven't you ever done a double-take when you've seen the word "Congrefs" written on a piece of parchment?
**wax on** It's not an F. What you see is the "long s". It's how they used to draw an S character since the days of Carolingian Minuscule, from which hand our "Times Roman" eventually derived. You'll note there was no crossbar on the letter in that form - the crossbar distinguished the "f" from the "long s". The form we take as "s" appeared only at the end of the word. Thus, "Congrefs" would have been pronounced "Congress". **wax off**
the truth of the matter is that we just can't figure out how they moved 3 ton blocks without the invention of the wheel.
Actually, they've solved that one. There were a lot of lemon-slice shaped bits lying around the sites that nobody had understood the purpose of, until an archaeologist noted that if you bind them to the sides of the block, they turn the whole thing into a sort of wheel shape. Draw a circle, then a square inside it with the corners touching the rim. Those four round sections you find lying outside the square are the shapes they found by the dozens. Wrap cables around the square bit in the middle and roll it up. Still a big job, but a lot less impossible that way.
When I was growing up, astrology was becoming a keen area of study. Theoretical science became applied science as the weapons of war were turned to plowshares of exploration and propelled us into space, to the moon and back to Earth.
I do not wish to offend, but was this comment posted by a human or a new version of Racter?
I'm not even sure that the RIAA can afford so many lawsuits
On a tactical cost-benefit basis, perhaps not. Such a strategy might make sense though if they see it as a one-time cost to defend what they perceive as their turf; i.e. spend big now or you'll have nothing at all in the coffers down the road.
There will be an economy of music, eventually -- but I doubt if it will look like the RIAA. More likely the pendulum will shift a bit and high-cost productions will go away in favour of more garage bands.
Which may not be a bad thing. Good music is a personal expose', a connection of people feeling what others feel - I generally do not enjoy music that comes across as being project-managed.
Remember the Beatles were a garage band once before they were attacked by a feral string section, and look what they achieved. Like it or not, they did a very good job of countering Tin Pan Alley, the RIAA of the day.
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A studied response, that - but will the fuels of an upper-stage necessarily be cryogenic, especially at the low fuel pressures at the latter life of the fuel supply? I'd be interested in seeing how much of the energy goes into keeping the magnetic post-nozzle configuration alive past that point. But I like the idea, and would be a little surprised if it couldn't be scaled up to main engines. Any efficiency gains at the heavy end of the trajectory would pay off handsomely.
"Kahoonas" are god-like Cojones. An ordinary man will have cojones, 1 pair, for the masculine use thereof. Kahoonas belong to the class of businessman who are the equivalent of that little station wagon revving up next to you (ROFL-- Leetle Station Wagon challenges ME?) that secretly has a Rolls-Merlin in the back seat and a Turbonique hydrogen peroxide engine attached to the diff. Organic cocoanuts attached to the driveshafts. Originally from "Kahuna", the God of Surf and people who hear "Tsunami!" and immediately think "Dude! Where's my surfboard?"
Clustering arrived on the scene with VMS, pre-dating WNT by several years. Spiffy thing, based on a cluster distributed lock manager. Worked just fine with relational databases, was fully symmetric, didn't suck.
Hmm... What if the engines were not monolithic, but comprised of a number of discrete cartridges, each of which were unthrottleable, but could be fired in sequence? I could imagine a scenario where they might even use the same cylinder; just gated in some fashion like a sort of complex autoloader weapon. Instead of cartridges with bullets, cartridges of solid propellant. Several of these bundled together could give you controllable solid fuel combustion in measurable discrete impulses. Call it a Gatling Rocket Engine.
Of course if it jams (likely in the first efforts) it simply stops burning. You lose, but you don't explode.
LoL Point taken. But you never advise against bad ones, you advise in favour of good ones - Sales 101. By that I mean you push hard on the cost/benefit of running an OSS solution, let your customer fill in the blanks -- they read the trades too (not to mention the bottom line costs) and generally know to the dime what the proprietary solutions are pillaging them for. Comparing the competition unfavorably is ok in Slashdot, but is unprofessional in a sales environment. More to the point, you never want to mention the competition at all because it will divert their thinking away from your solution and off to your competition's. You want the brain space to be yours, not theirs.
You've obviously never worked for (insert name of major telecommunications carrier here). One wasted $5M project is an oversight, three failed $5M projects is the beginning of a corporate standard.
ROFL Yes, a flip-flop.
Sorry, I couldn't let that stay under the radar.
Why yes, I Am Irish!
A computer is a box of switches. Start from there.
Old days? OLD days? Dang, debugging a backplane with a CRO and a cheap transistor radio to listen to the code run through the M register was the old days. You insensitive young whipper snippers ... I mean snapper whippers... Uh, what was I talking about?
Case in point: I remember a young grad programmer who was parsing a free-text address into its component parts. Early 4GL (Powerhouse). He was getting about 4 transactions per hour, and couldn't understand why. His logic was impeccable, but he didn't realise the effect of choosing a string of "Else If"'s over a string of "If - End if"'s would have (there being no case statement in that version iirc). He was forcing a huge amount of activity to happen in the the call argument stack, the worst possible structure to use on that platform at the time. Obvious to an old bit-bender, incomprehensible to someone who was never trained to look below the surface. So yes, knowledge in-depth matters.
Kids these days, can't take the pressure of a few fathoms under the object layer (grumble grumble mutter at shoes).
Precisely, and I agree.
But it's also unconstitutional; since it's clear the U.S. government worships money, this is a clear violation of the principle of separation of church and state.
--The Forbin Project
It's never a customer's fault if they don't want to throw money at you, it's yours.
If a customer asks you for help and you don't provide what they want (as opposed to what you believe they need) they will vote with their wallet, and you will be left to simmer in your own juices. I hope your business model holds up.
"So what'd they say? They have any bodies they can throw at us?"
"Nah, they just told me to run a fricking diagnostic. They're not interested."
If you have an example of an installation that worked right, and are willing to let others talk to you about it, write your success story in a letter and send it to the publishers of TFA.
It's a German company that sells quite rather a lot of software. Whole large businesses run on it, and a cheap installation starts in seven figures and goes up from there. It's a serious suite of software. Check "SAP Specialist" in your favourite job search engine and check the rates they're getting for clue 2. They're big, as in first-page-of-Hitchhiker's-Guide big.
All the better to let them chatter on while you go out and do a bit of gardening, love. Imagine the international call charges they're racking up. Sweet...
Best option for dealing with telemarketers is the one used by Crawley in Pratchett&Gaiman's "Good Omens". 'Nuff said.
Excellent idea, but why not sink it a few hundred feet deep? There would be no need to move it for storms.
There is no virtue in a frank admission of vice.
It doesn't have to be a nuke. Read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" written by an Annapolis grad named Robert Heinlein back in the last century.
"I don't think we should throw any more rocks at Cheyenne Mountain." " -- Why? " "..It isn't there any more."
**wax on** It's not an F. What you see is the "long s". It's how they used to draw an S character since the days of Carolingian Minuscule, from which hand our "Times Roman" eventually derived. You'll note there was no crossbar on the letter in that form - the crossbar distinguished the "f" from the "long s". The form we take as "s" appeared only at the end of the word. Thus, "Congrefs" would have been pronounced "Congress". **wax off**
Actually, they've solved that one. There were a lot of lemon-slice shaped bits lying around the sites that nobody had understood the purpose of, until an archaeologist noted that if you bind them to the sides of the block, they turn the whole thing into a sort of wheel shape. Draw a circle, then a square inside it with the corners touching the rim. Those four round sections you find lying outside the square are the shapes they found by the dozens. Wrap cables around the square bit in the middle and roll it up. Still a big job, but a lot less impossible that way.
I do not wish to offend, but was this comment posted by a human or a new version of Racter?
On a tactical cost-benefit basis, perhaps not. Such a strategy might make sense though if they see it as a one-time cost to defend what they perceive as their turf; i.e. spend big now or you'll have nothing at all in the coffers down the road.
There will be an economy of music, eventually -- but I doubt if it will look like the RIAA. More likely the pendulum will shift a bit and high-cost productions will go away in favour of more garage bands.
Which may not be a bad thing. Good music is a personal expose', a connection of people feeling what others feel - I generally do not enjoy music that comes across as being project-managed.
Remember the Beatles were a garage band once before they were attacked by a feral string section, and look what they achieved. Like it or not, they did a very good job of countering Tin Pan Alley, the RIAA of the day.