Unfortunately for the incipient feeding frenzy, the mission scientists were emphatic that the evidence, while strongly suggesting that an aqueous environment was involved, was not sufficient to differentiate between a standing body of water and ground water (an aquifer) that percolated through the minerals in situ.
We may know better in a couple of weeks, since the "deposited in water" versus "affected by water" question is right at the top of the list for further investigation.
They did not come out with a windows version fast enough and the market left them behind.
IIRC (it's been a while, obviously) it was not so much that WordPerfect was late in coming out with a good version for Windows (which they were) but that Microsoft knew to release Windows and their office suite together.
They had the code base, tools, and developers. The rest of the world (their competitors) had to wait until the dev kits were available and so were starting behind the MS developers in both knowledge and time. That lead in market share was all that MS needed.
#disclaimer: Work supplies me with a licensed copy of MS Office. I spend my own money to buy WordPerfect.
To have a little fun with the whole "politically damaging photographs on the internet" bit, Tom Tomorrow cooked up one of Dubya having a good ol' time doing some table-top dancing during a party at Yale
Strictly in good fun, of course (and to illustrate the point)...
Doesn't anyone in New Mexico remember the federally mandated seatbelt interlocks from the mid '70s? Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208 was amended to require that vehicles produced for the 1974 and later (ha!) model years be equipped with an ingntion interlock such that the driver (and front seat passenger, if present) had to have their seat belts buckled before the car would start. (There was an option for manufacturers to install air bags instead, but air bag technology wasn't ready and only GM had that option and only on a few cars.)
Just having to "buckle up" to start the car was such a PITA to the citizenry that Congress actually passed a law forbidding the use of seat belt / ingition interlocks. It was signed by Pres Ford in October 1974.
And that interlock only required buckling seat belts. These clowns expect people to sit behind the wheel and blow into a hose for 30 seconds to start the car?
What is so unique about his perspective? Because he was involved in an advisory board?
Chaired it, actually. He probably has a better insight into the capabilities and limitations of the shuttle program (which would have to be used in the event of any HST maintenance or rescue mission) than all but a handful of NASA engineers.
Disclaimer: I worked for ADM Gehman for a couple of years when he was the J3 (Operations) at USACOM (now morphed into JFCOM). Super guy, both thorough and thoughtful, totally unflappable.
Erector sets and the similar metric-pitch Merkur sets are still available. One web site that carries most of the models (once they restock after the seasonal rush) is at www.girdersandgears.com.
Useful to have a set on-hand just to... erm... play with but also as a handy collection of structural parts for free-form robots.
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Also (somewhat) depressing is that none of the sites appear to be /.ed yet.
The Garrett paper looks wonderful; just the thing my ancient brain needs.
Unfortunately for the incipient feeding frenzy, the mission scientists were emphatic that the evidence, while strongly suggesting that an aqueous environment was involved, was not sufficient to differentiate between a standing body of water and ground water (an aquifer) that percolated through the minerals in situ.
We may know better in a couple of weeks, since the "deposited in water" versus "affected by water" question is right at the top of the list for further investigation.
They did not come out with a windows version fast enough and the market left them behind.
IIRC (it's been a while, obviously) it was not so much that WordPerfect was late in coming out with a good version for Windows (which they were) but that Microsoft knew to release Windows and their office suite together.
They had the code base, tools, and developers. The rest of the world (their competitors) had to wait until the dev kits were available and so were starting behind the MS developers in both knowledge and time. That lead in market share was all that MS needed.
#disclaimer: Work supplies me with a licensed copy of MS Office. I spend my own money to buy WordPerfect.
To have a little fun with the whole "politically damaging photographs on the internet" bit, Tom Tomorrow cooked up one of Dubya having a good ol' time doing some table-top dancing during a party at Yale
Strictly in good fun, of course (and to illustrate the point)...
Doesn't anyone in New Mexico remember the federally mandated seatbelt interlocks from the mid '70s? Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208 was amended to require that vehicles produced for the 1974 and later (ha!) model years be equipped with an ingntion interlock such that the driver (and front seat passenger, if present) had to have their seat belts buckled before the car would start. (There was an option for manufacturers to install air bags instead, but air bag technology wasn't ready and only GM had that option and only on a few cars.)
Just having to "buckle up" to start the car was such a PITA to the citizenry that Congress actually passed a law forbidding the use of seat belt / ingition interlocks. It was signed by Pres Ford in October 1974.
And that interlock only required buckling seat belts. These clowns expect people to sit behind the wheel and blow into a hose for 30 seconds to start the car?
What is so unique about his perspective? Because he was involved in an advisory board?
Chaired it, actually. He probably has a better insight into the capabilities and limitations of the shuttle program (which would have to be used in the event of any HST maintenance or rescue mission) than all but a handful of NASA engineers.
Disclaimer: I worked for ADM Gehman for a couple of years when he was the J3 (Operations) at USACOM (now morphed into JFCOM). Super guy, both thorough and thoughtful, totally unflappable.
Erector sets and the similar metric-pitch Merkur sets are still available. One web site that carries most of the models (once they restock after the seasonal rush) is at www.girdersandgears.com.
Useful to have a set on-hand just to... erm... play with but also as a handy collection of structural parts for free-form robots.