Deeper levels of transparency are even more
important if Social Security private accounts
are invested heavily in stocks. Enron-like
corporate scandals would have dire consequences
with no safety net.
Global warming states that the maxima of BOTH hot and cold will increase. Nice to see people are too ignorant to even know what the actual theory is.
It doesn't take a genious to see that
Kyotoists manipulate and distort climate research to
suit their main political purposes and weird
view of the future.
Why this forum attaches credence to the politically motivated, eco-blathering of a British
leftist mouthpiece, I'll never know. The
U.S. is opposed to arbitrary, economically
harmful curbs on CO2 emissions whose benefitial
effects we can never know with certainty.
Get used to it.
To those who mod me down - thanks for your
attention.
Solaris is now an obscure niche platform.
IBM doesn't support VAX VMS either, but no one complains.
If it made financial sense for IBM to support
Solaris they would. This rant is only a futher sign
of the waning of Sun in the marketplace.
The TDRS satellites have served this function
for the last 20 years for NASA. Traditional
communications satellites also transmit IP
routinely. Technically,
they are not wireless routers, they are transponders. But one of their uses is to
transmit IP streams.
The Iridium and Globalstar constellations
also operate as cell networks in space.
You might like small planes, but these are why the market in the US needs state subsidies. Take a look at the UK / Ireland and their low cost opperations.
Easyjet and Ryanair are modelled directly
after Southwest
Airlines which is florishing in the Post 9/11
environment. Your CEO's worked closely with
Herb Kelleher. What state subsidies are you talking about?
By the way, the A380 is the poster child
for state subsidies. Eurogovernments have provided billions in 0 intererst loans which
are not likely to be repaid.
The Mars Science Rover will not be landing in
a capsule like Spirit or Opportunity. Furthermore, the size and power of the vehicle would be able to accomodate a trenching tool. For all I know there
is already one planned. Furthermore the Atlas V
vehicle that will launch the MSI can deliver over 3 times the landing mass to Mars than a Delta 2.
With the spectacular success of the Mars Spirit and Opportunity missions and the pending 2009
launch of a nuclear powered Mars rover, sending
a stationary lander would be quite a step
backwards. If a lander lands in a locally boring spot it is stuck. If a rover lands in a dull
spot - as the Sprit rover did in Gusev crater- a short drive
can remedy the situation. There is also no reason
to dig for permafrost. A rover should be able
to sample ice expose from north polar cap directly.
It seems to me that if the goal is to find
habitable spots for microbes you could not
do better than to examine some of gullies
in the southern hemisphere where brines may
be actively flowing at the surface.
Gates is a greedy bastard, Balmer is a willing baffoon. Microsoft is as reviled today by the free software community as it was 5 years ago. Nothing has changed.
This landing should lead scientists toward new information about the atmosphere and the magnetosphere.
This sentence is intellectual pablum. Titan does not have a significant magnetic field. Huygens will be
examining the chemical composition of the atmosphere
and surface, and will provide detailed imaging
of both. Today is a day for the pure thrill of
exploration of a hidden and exotic world!
Bezos' ego knows no bounds. It is very unlikely
an amature like Bezos will out do Burt Rutan
in commercializing suborbial flight. He is already late to the party. Mr. Rutan's
team is well funded by billionaires Paulo Allen
and Richard Branson, brilliantly innovative,
and have a highly successful track record.
I wonder if Bezos will combine with the equally
lame effort of John Carmack in West Texas?
Bezos is wasting his money.
Just because you find it 'hard to believe' doesn't mean it isn't true.
Yet, you do not refute anything I say. I don't
deny that Lake Agassiz emptied catastrophically
into the North Atlantic. It is absurd to maintain that this event 'turned on' the gulfstream.
A current theory is that Lake Agassiz, a 'super great lake', catastrophically drained into the upper Atlantic causing a shift in salinity, thus a shift in the temperature current flow, thus a shift in climate.
Consider that for Lake Agassiz to drain or
exist at all implies that the continental ice sheet
was reteating and that the climate was already
warming. The draining of Lake Agassiz was an
effect of climate change, not a cause. Also,
I find it hard to believe that the Gulf Stream
gyre, which operates over the whole of the
North Atlantic was suddenly turned on by this
event. The northeast circulation of warm surface water is explained by Hadley circulation and
coriolis force. Other components of the motion
are second order effects.
I heartily thank Mr. Nakamura. His multi-colored
LED's were crucial to the 'pimping out' of my
homemade PC. Now if we can only identify the
equally deserving inventor of plexiglass.
The GPL cleverly uses existing US copyright law to insure
users rights. The weight of law applies now. All
that is required is cooperation by the community
of software users. I would hope US patent law weakens
over time so that free software less vulnerable to
harmful lawsuits brought by rapacious corporations than it is now.
Couldn't have said it better myself brother.
I would have expected the Opera folks to use
the muzzy description "open" for their offering
instead of the more controvercial (on this forum
anyway) term "free".
In Opera all I see is the whip hand of proprietary
software. No thanks.
Here at work I am forced to use Rational Rose
for C++ design. I have rarely encountered a worse
visual tool in 15 years of programming. The UI
is buggy, unintuative, and at the end of the day
doesn't do much considering the price. Avoid it if you can. There is still a need in the
development world for a program class designer
that can both generate or synchronize with sources. A Dia module would be nice.
But what about the tech that REALLY got man to the moon. Saturn V is just a big WWII rocket, the thing that made the difference was the IBM computing "power" that directed the thing.
You might say the the monster SIC stage
was of WWII vintage, though the F1 engines
were gigantic and employed innovative turbomachinery and cooling. It was designed by
Von Braun's V2 team. The SII and SIVB H2/O2
stages were truly revolutionary. They are
the main reason why the Saturn V had such a huge
payload mass fraction (3.8%). As you say, the IBM
instrument and guidance programming were also
of tremendous importance. There were several
instances of 'engine out' during Apollo and all
events were smartly handled by the IU.
For those who are currently computer programmers/engineers, would you say you really enjoy your job, or does it get extremely old and tedious after awhile?
I work in avionics software. I find work less
rewarding than home hacking because of the level
of compromise involved with working on a large
team in a big corporation. My home GNU/Linux
system is a pleasant intellectual refuge
where I can forget about the crudeness of C++
and windoze
and revel in the beauty of Lisp.
I agree. There have been many aledged abuses
of the Patriot Act. This is not one of them.
We recoil in disgust when we hear of cars
being hit with rocks from dropped overpasses.
How is this any different? Lock him up,
throw away the key.
The main problem on the antiquated space shuttles is the heat-resistant tiles. They're extremely expensive, and not very good. They're so soft you could problably crush a piece with your hands, which means they're easily damaged during flight (and we've seen the fatal results of that).
Tiles get bad press because of some problems encountered during development in binding them
to the skin of the orbiter. This problem was solved long ago. Tiles are covered with a silica glaze. You certainly can't crush one that
is fully glazed with your hands. (I have a
glazed white tile). Since then, they have performed admirably. They are remarkably light, heat resistant, easily worked. Furthermore much of the
shuttle's upper half has been covered with a new nomex blanket insulation that aren't tiles at all. The insulation proposed for the x33 was also
based on a strengthened silica tile. You will
not see tiles be abandoned as thermal insulation
for spacecraft.
It wasn't tile damage that
brought Columbia down. It was damage to the
relatively strong carbon-carbon leading edge.
Any material hit by large speeding debris would
be significantly damaged, even titanium.
The engineering problem is debris shedding.
Lets hope that is fixed and the shuttle can
fly until the CRV comes online.
It seems the PHP folks are spreading FUD. But
what would you expect from the
troglodyte designers of a bottom feeding
language like PHP? There are many technically
better alternatives, like Apache mod_scheme.
Why not use them instead?
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Deeper levels of transparency are even more important if Social Security private accounts are invested heavily in stocks. Enron-like corporate scandals would have dire consequences with no safety net.
Global warming states that the maxima of BOTH hot and cold will increase. Nice to see people are too ignorant to even know what the actual theory is.
It doesn't take a genious to see that Kyotoists manipulate and distort climate research to suit their main political purposes and weird view of the future.
Why this forum attaches credence to the politically motivated, eco-blathering of a British leftist mouthpiece, I'll never know. The U.S. is opposed to arbitrary, economically harmful curbs on CO2 emissions whose benefitial effects we can never know with certainty. Get used to it. To those who mod me down - thanks for your attention.
Solaris is now an obscure niche platform. IBM doesn't support VAX VMS either, but no one complains. If it made financial sense for IBM to support Solaris they would. This rant is only a futher sign of the waning of Sun in the marketplace.
The TDRS satellites have served this function for the last 20 years for NASA. Traditional communications satellites also transmit IP routinely. Technically, they are not wireless routers, they are transponders. But one of their uses is to transmit IP streams.
The Iridium and Globalstar constellations also operate as cell networks in space.
You might like small planes, but these are why the market in the US needs state subsidies. Take a look at the UK / Ireland and their low cost opperations.
Easyjet and Ryanair are modelled directly after Southwest Airlines which is florishing in the Post 9/11 environment. Your CEO's worked closely with Herb Kelleher. What state subsidies are you talking about?
By the way, the A380 is the poster child for state subsidies. Eurogovernments have provided billions in 0 intererst loans which are not likely to be repaid.
The Mars Science Rover will not be landing in a capsule like Spirit or Opportunity. Furthermore, the size and power of the vehicle would be able to accomodate a trenching tool. For all I know there is already one planned. Furthermore the Atlas V vehicle that will launch the MSI can deliver over 3 times the landing mass to Mars than a Delta 2.
With the spectacular success of the Mars Spirit and Opportunity missions and the pending 2009 launch of a nuclear powered Mars rover, sending a stationary lander would be quite a step backwards. If a lander lands in a locally boring spot it is stuck. If a rover lands in a dull spot - as the Sprit rover did in Gusev crater- a short drive can remedy the situation. There is also no reason to dig for permafrost. A rover should be able to sample ice expose from north polar cap directly.
It seems to me that if the goal is to find habitable spots for microbes you could not do better than to examine some of gullies in the southern hemisphere where brines may be actively flowing at the surface.
Gates is a greedy bastard, Balmer is a willing baffoon. Microsoft is as reviled today by the free software community as it was 5 years ago. Nothing has changed.
This landing should lead scientists toward new information about the atmosphere and the magnetosphere.
This sentence is intellectual pablum. Titan does not have a significant magnetic field. Huygens will be examining the chemical composition of the atmosphere and surface, and will provide detailed imaging of both. Today is a day for the pure thrill of exploration of a hidden and exotic world!
Bezos' ego knows no bounds. It is very unlikely an amature like Bezos will out do Burt Rutan in commercializing suborbial flight. He is already late to the party. Mr. Rutan's team is well funded by billionaires Paulo Allen and Richard Branson, brilliantly innovative, and have a highly successful track record. I wonder if Bezos will combine with the equally lame effort of John Carmack in West Texas? Bezos is wasting his money.
Just because you find it 'hard to believe' doesn't mean it isn't true.
Yet, you do not refute anything I say. I don't deny that Lake Agassiz emptied catastrophically into the North Atlantic. It is absurd to maintain that this event 'turned on' the gulfstream.
A current theory is that Lake Agassiz, a 'super great lake', catastrophically drained into the upper Atlantic causing a shift in salinity, thus a shift in the temperature current flow, thus a shift in climate.
Consider that for Lake Agassiz to drain or exist at all implies that the continental ice sheet was reteating and that the climate was already warming. The draining of Lake Agassiz was an effect of climate change, not a cause. Also, I find it hard to believe that the Gulf Stream gyre, which operates over the whole of the North Atlantic was suddenly turned on by this event. The northeast circulation of warm surface water is explained by Hadley circulation and coriolis force. Other components of the motion are second order effects.
I heartily thank Mr. Nakamura. His multi-colored LED's were crucial to the 'pimping out' of my homemade PC. Now if we can only identify the equally deserving inventor of plexiglass.
The GPL cleverly uses existing US copyright law to insure users rights. The weight of law applies now. All that is required is cooperation by the community of software users. I would hope US patent law weakens over time so that free software less vulnerable to harmful lawsuits brought by rapacious corporations than it is now.
Couldn't have said it better myself brother. I would have expected the Opera folks to use the muzzy description "open" for their offering instead of the more controvercial (on this forum anyway) term "free". In Opera all I see is the whip hand of proprietary software. No thanks.
Can somebody please post the Paris Hilton photos?
I suggested Dia because it was guile extendable and not really bound to any language. I agree with you completely.
Here at work I am forced to use Rational Rose for C++ design. I have rarely encountered a worse visual tool in 15 years of programming. The UI is buggy, unintuative, and at the end of the day doesn't do much considering the price. Avoid it if you can. There is still a need in the development world for a program class designer that can both generate or synchronize with sources. A Dia module would be nice.
But what about the tech that REALLY got man to the moon. Saturn V is just a big WWII rocket, the thing that made the difference was the IBM computing "power" that directed the thing.
You might say the the monster SIC stage was of WWII vintage, though the F1 engines were gigantic and employed innovative turbomachinery and cooling. It was designed by Von Braun's V2 team. The SII and SIVB H2/O2 stages were truly revolutionary. They are the main reason why the Saturn V had such a huge payload mass fraction (3.8%). As you say, the IBM instrument and guidance programming were also of tremendous importance. There were several instances of 'engine out' during Apollo and all events were smartly handled by the IU.
For those who are currently computer programmers/engineers, would you say you really enjoy your job, or does it get extremely old and tedious after awhile?
I work in avionics software. I find work less rewarding than home hacking because of the level of compromise involved with working on a large team in a big corporation. My home GNU/Linux system is a pleasant intellectual refuge where I can forget about the crudeness of C++ and windoze and revel in the beauty of Lisp.
I agree. There have been many aledged abuses of the Patriot Act. This is not one of them. We recoil in disgust when we hear of cars being hit with rocks from dropped overpasses. How is this any different? Lock him up, throw away the key.
You might enjoy this site which has lots of material written by Andy about the early years at Apple.
The main problem on the antiquated space shuttles is the heat-resistant tiles. They're extremely expensive, and not very good. They're so soft you could problably crush a piece with your hands, which means they're easily damaged during flight (and we've seen the fatal results of that).
Tiles get bad press because of some problems encountered during development in binding them to the skin of the orbiter. This problem was solved long ago. Tiles are covered with a silica glaze. You certainly can't crush one that is fully glazed with your hands. (I have a glazed white tile). Since then, they have performed admirably. They are remarkably light, heat resistant, easily worked. Furthermore much of the shuttle's upper half has been covered with a new nomex blanket insulation that aren't tiles at all. The insulation proposed for the x33 was also based on a strengthened silica tile. You will not see tiles be abandoned as thermal insulation for spacecraft.
It wasn't tile damage that brought Columbia down. It was damage to the relatively strong carbon-carbon leading edge. Any material hit by large speeding debris would be significantly damaged, even titanium. The engineering problem is debris shedding. Lets hope that is fixed and the shuttle can fly until the CRV comes online.
It seems the PHP folks are spreading FUD. But what would you expect from the troglodyte designers of a bottom feeding language like PHP? There are many technically better alternatives, like Apache mod_scheme. Why not use them instead?