Seems like the problem is that they built a satellite too large to have any reasonable launch options. Or they could've gone to NASA and got one those Baaaadaaaaas Titan IV lifters. Probably would have cost more. Probably would be in orbit too.
Either you get smaller satellites and go to the Chinese, the French, heck even the Israelis to launch it or you go NASA.
In the Pentagon, it became so common for the chart jockies to put together such enormous PPTs that brought down the internal networks at the Pentagon just shipping the PPTs around to the audience that the Brass had to ban/restrict its use. It was common for even the most ordinary presentation to contain movies, sounds sub programs, shooting stars.... Presentations typically ran to the multi-hundred megabytes.
I guess what I'm getting at is the DoD has a culture of extreme presentation and content bloat for no good reason. Seems to me that the upper management tacitly approves of massive media collection and sharing.
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At work for us, we turn over machines every three years. We will continue to have to support Win95OSR2 through the end of 2003 at least until the last older hardware is still in service.
We've never supported 98/ME or NT on the desktop.
We started W2K on the desktop officially last year.
We have no plans to support XP. We will have to spend bucks to get even our bare bones suite of internal apps to run on it.
Does anyone know why the MS alert says XP Pro will have 2 years more life than XP Home?
I just close my eyes and imagine the next Great Leap Forward my MS. Windows 2K5XP whatever they call it. It will REQUIRE a 2GHz processor a Gig of RAM and ATA133 drives. Probably high end video and sound adapters as well. Now everyone here will think this stupid but it's never been stupid before. And at any rate they'll have DRM built in so they'll drag you along the upgrade path because nothing else will work.
Unless there is wholesale revolt and people stop buying Office and MS doesn't strong arm everyone into coding to IE9.5 (or whatever) and you don't want to play you r audio CD's or DVD's anymore.....
That's it. 30. Imagine that not only is there only bubblegum/R+B/chick/pop/girl-boy band/white rap hybrid muzak sludge but you have to pay to listen to it. You have to pay to not listen to it. You have to pay to complain about it.
A BIIIIG problem w/ Salon is that the Premium (fee) content categories change from day to day. Everyday the list of columnists that are "Premium" change and what you could read for free yesterday.
My favs are the cartoons (Carol Lay is a God(dess))
Really this is like the 10th time in the past two weeks you guys have hosed someone's site. You should start asking permission before you post someone's site here.
All the EU wants to do is tweak the Yanks' noses and two protect their own software industry. If the EU felt that strongly about encroachment they would treat it like any other trade dispute and threaten to ennact sanctions, tarriffs and embargoes. But they don't which means they really aren't interested in market equilibrium, they are interested in finessing the creation of legislation through their court system and bypassing normal EU trade processes.
Screw the EU - they have an 80 page regulation for the steering wheel on a bus. And they think MS is bad?
That's what I'd do. Walk in buck naked with a Zippo in one hand and a 5 gallon Jerry can in the other and screaming that you're gonna fix their tech support problem once and for fucking all.
There is a class of cytoxan/cytosporin chemotherapy drugs that are in fact extremely powerful antibiotics. But at any rate the future of antibiotics is in custom tuned monoclonal antibodies.
Why not. If economics can become math (A Beautiful Mind) and psychology can become economics (See this year's Nobel in Economics - it's basically graduate level experimental psychology applied to group economic behavior) then why can't physics become science fiction.
SSD - solid state drives are quite old. The problem has always been cost. 3 thousand bucks for a coupla Gig is astonishingly expensive. You'd better have some amazing requirements like Dynamic DNS zone file transfers on the order of 30-50MB/sec. Or something equally high end.
You need to use OSS that in fact IS supported as OSS. If you take a piece of OSS and ignore whatever the fuck is going on in the real world then it will in fact cost more to support. But if you use a piece of 'common' OSS that is generally recognized as supportable then it will be cheaper.
The other critical success factor is your patch strategy. If you, because it is OSS simply run out and churn through every patch that is available then you are wasting your time and money because vendors don't do this to their SW either. YOU REALLY to implement change management/version control.
Back in the day when we worked on EMP shielding, no matter the elegance of the solution it all came down to raw force. If you wanted to shield to 100 MEV then all your opponent has to do is create 110 MEV. *Poof*
"Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I can break practically anything"
TheIDF has world class technology development and software development. Don't forget they own the process that allows them to make smaller nukes than anyone - probably on the order of 3-4Kg of fuel. All self developed.
Merkava tanks including the cnomputerized fire control and autoloaders? Self created.
UAV technology - initially invented there.
Jericho missiles and Ofek Spy satellites - all homegrown.
Oh sure you start out all in love and shit and fucking on the kitchen table and calling each other 10 times a day. Then one day you wake up and you remind yourself to buy that handgum you're gonna use on both of you that day.
Well games are the same. Assuming that they are even worthwhile at all - which is a crapshoot, a good game has a low burnout factor. You don't get sick of playing it faster than the level of your satisfaction decreases. That is, a good game is always less frustrating - it's hit a sweet spot of difficulty vs. reward. Plus they're not dull.
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Seems like the problem is that they built a satellite too large to have any reasonable launch options. Or they could've gone to NASA and got one those Baaaadaaaaas Titan IV lifters. Probably would have cost more. Probably would be in orbit too.
Either you get smaller satellites and go to the Chinese, the French, heck even the Israelis to launch it or you go NASA.
In the Pentagon, it became so common for the chart jockies to put together such enormous PPTs that brought down the internal networks at the Pentagon just shipping the PPTs around to the audience that the Brass had to ban/restrict its use. It was common for even the most ordinary presentation to contain movies, sounds sub programs, shooting stars.... Presentations typically ran to the multi-hundred megabytes.
I guess what I'm getting at is the DoD has a culture of extreme presentation and content bloat for no good reason. Seems to me that the upper management tacitly approves of massive media collection and sharing.
At work for us, we turn over machines every three years. We will continue to have to support Win95OSR2 through the end of 2003 at least until the last older hardware is still in service.
We've never supported 98/ME or NT on the desktop.
We started W2K on the desktop officially last year.
We have no plans to support XP. We will have to spend bucks to get even our bare bones suite of internal apps to run on it.
Does anyone know why the MS alert says XP Pro will have 2 years more life than XP Home?
I just close my eyes and imagine the next Great Leap Forward my MS. Windows 2K5XP whatever they call it. It will REQUIRE a 2GHz processor a Gig of RAM and ATA133 drives. Probably high end video and sound adapters as well. Now everyone here will think this stupid but it's never been stupid before. And at any rate they'll have DRM built in so they'll drag you along the upgrade path because nothing else will work.
Unless there is wholesale revolt and people stop buying Office and MS doesn't strong arm everyone into coding to IE9.5 (or whatever) and you don't want to play you r audio CD's or DVD's anymore.....
Whew - sure as shit glad we dodged that bullet.
Thank god and the record industry for making the world a better place.
That's it. 30. Imagine that not only is there only bubblegum/R+B/chick/pop/girl-boy band/white rap hybrid muzak sludge but you have to pay to listen to it. You have to pay to not listen to it. You have to pay to complain about it.
They future's so bright I need a welding mask.
I'm wating for the next gens:
His Boy Elroy
Daughter Judy
Jane His Wife
Digital - Feh Feh I say !!!!
We used to race computers to a solution using a circular slide rule. We won about half the time.
Oh did I mention it was mostly solid analytic geometry problems?
A BIIIIG problem w/ Salon is that the Premium (fee) content categories change from day to day. Everyday the list of columnists that are "Premium" change and what you could read for free yesterday.
My favs are the cartoons (Carol Lay is a God(dess))
Carry Tennis
Andrew Sullivan.
Really this is like the 10th time in the past two weeks you guys have hosed someone's site. You should start asking permission before you post someone's site here.
Yeah it is.
All the EU wants to do is tweak the Yanks' noses and two protect their own software industry. If the EU felt that strongly about encroachment they would treat it like any other trade dispute and threaten to ennact sanctions, tarriffs and embargoes. But they don't which means they really aren't interested in market equilibrium, they are interested in finessing the creation of legislation through their court system and bypassing normal EU trade processes.
Screw the EU - they have an 80 page regulation for the steering wheel on a bus. And they think MS is bad?
That's what I'd do. Walk in buck naked with a Zippo in one hand and a 5 gallon Jerry can in the other and screaming that you're gonna fix their tech support problem once and for fucking all.
There is a class of cytoxan/cytosporin chemotherapy drugs that are in fact extremely powerful antibiotics. But at any rate the future of antibiotics is in custom tuned monoclonal antibodies.
Tougher bugs need tougher drugs.
Why not. If economics can become math (A Beautiful Mind) and psychology can become economics (See this year's Nobel in Economics - it's basically graduate level experimental psychology applied to group economic behavior) then why can't physics become science fiction.
SSD - solid state drives are quite old. The problem has always been cost. 3 thousand bucks for a coupla Gig is astonishingly expensive. You'd better have some amazing requirements like Dynamic DNS zone file transfers on the order of 30-50MB/sec. Or something equally high end.
You need to use OSS that in fact IS supported as OSS. If you take a piece of OSS and ignore whatever the fuck is going on in the real world then it will in fact cost more to support. But if you use a piece of 'common' OSS that is generally recognized as supportable then it will be cheaper.
The other critical success factor is your patch strategy. If you, because it is OSS simply run out and churn through every patch that is available then you are wasting your time and money because vendors don't do this to their SW either. YOU REALLY to implement change management/version control.
Back in the day when we worked on EMP shielding, no matter the elegance of the solution it all came down to raw force. If you wanted to shield to 100 MEV then all your opponent has to do is create 110 MEV. *Poof*
"Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I can break practically anything"
-Archimediocrates
Koffi Annan can't actually do anything to fix anything. So let's invent a new problem and make it someone else's to fix.
TheIDF has world class technology development and software development. Don't forget they own the process that allows them to make smaller nukes than anyone - probably on the order of 3-4Kg of fuel. All self developed.
Merkava tanks including the cnomputerized fire control and autoloaders? Self created.
UAV technology - initially invented there.
Jericho missiles and Ofek Spy satellites - all homegrown.
Homegrown cruise missiles...
I bet it's lost about 80% of the 10 billion bucks they sunk into it.
Oh sure you start out all in love and shit and fucking on the kitchen table and calling each other 10 times a day. Then one day you wake up and you remind yourself to buy that handgum you're gonna use on both of you that day.
Well games are the same. Assuming that they are even worthwhile at all - which is a crapshoot, a good game has a low burnout factor. You don't get sick of playing it faster than the level of your satisfaction decreases. That is, a good game is always less frustrating - it's hit a sweet spot of difficulty vs. reward. Plus they're not dull.
Every day's a new sex trick until it falls off.
That's why William Hurt was perfect casting for the TV epic. A perfect match of depressive dullness.
And it is massively clustered parallel sysplex.
I came, I saw, I LPAR'd
All Hail z/OS !!
Yeah don't you need the square of the kinetic energy of a moving body to change its inertia?