Server rooms will continue to use the old clunky laptops abandoned by the rest of the company. Bonus points if they are old enough to have serial ports.
Is there any way to browse the photos elsewhere / without the terrible space.com bloat?
Ah, the plight of the poor, confused AC. Lurk more, post less. Look up just a bit. And come on submitters and "editors" - just link to the primary sites when available not the commercial crapfest.
From the standpoint of the end user - the 99% - Apple maps is the problem. Yes, we can tease it out into more subtle nuances but as far as the person staring at the screen it was an APPLE mistake. It was hubris, plain and simple. They certainly could have waited another year until they were ready but they didn't.
So they got dinged, some heads rolled and the world continued. It's a pure Apple play. Roll out crap in the beginning, get it running sooner or later. Cf, OS X, iTunes (OK, the STILL haven't got it right), Final Cut X, the iPhone and pretty much any Rev. 1 bit of Apple hardware. Where ever they get the idea that 'it just works' is quite beyond me. Hell, and I even like Apple stuff, I just know not to buy it when it first comes out and not to install software before the x.3 version.
While that is useful if the plane has any sort of seat power, most of the RJs (regional jets) don't have anything. And given the poor economic performance of most airlines and the typically limited competition (at least at the regional level) upgrading the seats isn't going to happen quickly, you're more likely to solve your computing problem by getting a laptop with a better battery.
And, of course, there is always the iPad and similar ilk.
If there were still people at Microsoft with the technical and moral authority to send emails like that, the company's flatlined stock price graph would look very different.
Pics or it didn't happen. Apple had Asshole-in-Chief Stephen P. Jobs with the technical and moral authority to do exactly that. And guess what? OS X took almost a decade before it was anything other than crap. Maybe it helps to have 'vision' but yelling and screaming rarely I does more than make the yeller and screamer feel important.
If you are really at a 50% tax bracket, you need to do one of two things (perhaps both). First, get a tax adviser and second, consider moving out of New York City or wherever it is that you're getting shafted for on local / state taxes. That's about 20% higher than it should be unless you have some really odd financial issues.
He's probably using a UHF link (see Technician's posts above). Most repeater transmitters can be left alone for a long time. There are thousands of similar radios on mountaintops all over the world, visited perhaps once or twice a year - usually to service the batteries. If it's hooked up to the grid, even less reason to visit it.
And getting into the maintenance area of a low security building isn't all that hard. Didn't you watch all of those Mission Impossible series on TV?
Batshit crazy with a penchant for seriously abusing psychosis inducing amphetamine-based drugs and with easy access to multiple firearms spells potential murderer to me, but hell, that's just my cynical world view, I guess.
No, the lesson is to do better drugs. Self concocted 'bath salts' is a spot on method for frying what's left of your cortex. Stick to the old standbys and you'll be fine. Just look at Mick Jagger!
Even easier - you have two (or more) submarines or surface ships who are listening for the splashes. You assemble the data and you have accurate coordinates of the splashdown. Run a sensitive metal detector around the area and drag up fun things.
I would imagine between the US, SK and Japan, given the interest we have in the NKs behavior, we have lots of assets in the area waiting for exactly this sort of thing.
The problem is that "primitive design" is often read as "poor design" by non-technical people. Primitive designs may be pretty good in themselves, and work quite well, but have become obsoleted by more advanced designs
Indeed. The current workhorse of the manned spacecraft industry is the Soyuz-class capsule. First launched in 1966. It's had significant upgrades since then but the Soyuz-A and the Soyuz TMA-07MM (launched December 17, 2012) look very similar.
You are missing the point. A deliverable nuclear weapon is a very saleable thing. Somebody will pay big bucks to own one. That psychopath neighbor of yours, for instance.
Scud class missile technology is all over the Middle East (for instance). An IRBM based on Scud engines (and more importantly fuel and support equipment) with a low megaton range nuclear warhead that has some reasonable probability of exploding that is for sale, few questions asked, would allow NK to punch well above it's weight in the Big Game.
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They buy things and can't talk back. What's not to like?
Server rooms will continue to use the old clunky laptops abandoned by the rest of the company. Bonus points if they are old enough to have serial ports.
Internet years.
Or dog years. I wonder about Timothy sometimes.
And I'd like a Pony.
10 hours of battery life with the "Timothy Tablet' would need several Nobel Prize winning breakthroughs in battery technology and thermal management.
Is there any way to browse the photos elsewhere / without the terrible space.com bloat?
Ah, the plight of the poor, confused AC. Lurk more, post less. Look up just a bit. And come on submitters and "editors" - just link to the primary sites when available not the commercial crapfest.
How many times do we have to tell you that THIS IS NOT /b/?
That's because you old guys can't even remember your own name half the time, much less any nom de plume.
Foursquare, dying?
Do you have anything to back this up?
The enduring tendency of the human mind to hope for a good outcome.
From the standpoint of the end user - the 99% - Apple maps is the problem. Yes, we can tease it out into more subtle nuances but as far as the person staring at the screen it was an APPLE mistake. It was hubris, plain and simple. They certainly could have waited another year until they were ready but they didn't.
So they got dinged, some heads rolled and the world continued. It's a pure Apple play. Roll out crap in the beginning, get it running sooner or later. Cf, OS X, iTunes (OK, the STILL haven't got it right), Final Cut X, the iPhone and pretty much any Rev. 1 bit of Apple hardware. Where ever they get the idea that 'it just works' is quite beyond me. Hell, and I even like Apple stuff, I just know not to buy it when it first comes out and not to install software before the x.3 version.
Doesn't the USA military have any satellites capable of filling the temporary gap in NOAA ones?
Military weather is classified, you insensitive clod.
Oh great, they're going to start Photoshopping the weather.
That should end well...
While that is useful if the plane has any sort of seat power, most of the RJs (regional jets) don't have anything. And given the poor economic performance of most airlines and the typically limited competition (at least at the regional level) upgrading the seats isn't going to happen quickly, you're more likely to solve your computing problem by getting a laptop with a better battery.
And, of course, there is always the iPad and similar ilk.
If there were still people at Microsoft with the technical and moral authority to send emails like that, the company's flatlined stock price graph would look very different.
Pics or it didn't happen. Apple had Asshole-in-Chief Stephen P. Jobs with the technical and moral authority to do exactly that. And guess what? OS X took almost a decade before it was anything other than crap. Maybe it helps to have 'vision' but yelling and screaming rarely I does more than make the yeller and screamer feel important.
If you are really at a 50% tax bracket, you need to do one of two things (perhaps both). First, get a tax adviser and second, consider moving out of New York City or wherever it is that you're getting shafted for on local / state taxes. That's about 20% higher than it should be unless you have some really odd financial issues.
+3 points for trying for a car analogy.
Gosh you Europeans drive fast!
He's probably using a UHF link (see Technician's posts above). Most repeater transmitters can be left alone for a long time. There are thousands of similar radios on mountaintops all over the world, visited perhaps once or twice a year - usually to service the batteries. If it's hooked up to the grid, even less reason to visit it.
And getting into the maintenance area of a low security building isn't all that hard. Didn't you watch all of those Mission Impossible series on TV?
I'm sorry. I don't think that phrase means what you think it means.
Batshit crazy with a penchant for seriously abusing psychosis inducing amphetamine-based drugs and with easy access to multiple firearms spells potential murderer to me, but hell, that's just my cynical world view, I guess.
No, the lesson is to do better drugs. Self concocted 'bath salts' is a spot on method for frying what's left of your cortex. Stick to the old standbys and you'll be fine. Just look at Mick Jagger!
Oh, sorry. My bad.
Upset because you didn't get your working scale model of the Enterprise-D for Christmas?
Even easier - you have two (or more) submarines or surface ships who are listening for the splashes. You assemble the data and you have accurate coordinates of the splashdown. Run a sensitive metal detector around the area and drag up fun things.
I would imagine between the US, SK and Japan, given the interest we have in the NKs behavior, we have lots of assets in the area waiting for exactly this sort of thing.
The problem is that "primitive design" is often read as "poor design" by non-technical people. Primitive designs may be pretty good in themselves, and work quite well, but have become obsoleted by more advanced designs
Indeed. The current workhorse of the manned spacecraft industry is the Soyuz-class capsule. First launched in 1966. It's had significant upgrades since then but the Soyuz-A and the Soyuz TMA-07MM (launched December 17, 2012) look very similar.
You are missing the point. A deliverable nuclear weapon is a very saleable thing. Somebody will pay big bucks to own one. That psychopath neighbor of yours, for instance.
Scud class missile technology is all over the Middle East (for instance). An IRBM based on Scud engines (and more importantly fuel and support equipment) with a low megaton range nuclear warhead that has some reasonable probability of exploding that is for sale, few questions asked, would allow NK to punch well above it's weight in the Big Game.
Pretty heady stuff for a short, pudgy dictator.
Isn't there a limit on Kickstarter funding? Some of those politicians are pretty husky - it's going to take a bit of cash to get them to Mars.
But I heartily support your idea and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.