Evergreen Aviation and Space Musuem, in McMinnville, west of Portland OR, has already erected 'coming soon' billboards and made space indoors for one of the retired Shuttle's...will be a nice bookend to their Titan II missle that stands upright in the newest exhibit hall.
Hmmm I wonder if a fueled up Titan II can lift a shuttle orbiter?
Everyone knows the rules, and nobody rocks the boat.
But it is also boring and lame. I spent a week working there this year and by the last day I was seeing the gaps all over the place. I think if I had to live in the region I would spend a lot of time in Malaysia which, despite its flaws, is more of a "real" country to me.
I live in Australia and I work for a European software company. We spend a lot of money on business class tickets between our sites.
Long flights are expensive because you have to pay the labour for the crew for more than a day. Sea transport was more expensive than air transport for the same reason.
If a semi-ballistic transport can be made reliable then a lot of money will be saved on time alone. The problem is that going half way around the Earth uses almost as much fuel as going into orbit, so you need a complete shuttle stack to do it.
SpaceX have been making progress with their liquid fueled engines lately. I wonder how you would go connecting the guts of one of their rockets to something more like a spaceplane?
One thought I had during this thread is that if the distribution system is run by a company which does only that then it is easier to regulate as a monopoly, because the accounting is very simple.
Actually I have choice for my electricity and my phone and my natural gas.
Could you explain how that works? I'm honestly curious. Are their multiple gas pipes and electric cables running to your house?
I have one of each going to my house but I can buy gas, water and power from different companies. I never deal with the companies which own and maintain the actual pipes and cables, that is done by my service provider.
I think I used to work for you during Sol's early tenure. Key=The Russian dev team didn't half suck, did it? The ladies were good looking, but the Russian PM with the bad stammer, who would tell you how to build a clock if you asked him the time... (shudder).
Are you talking about Telstra? Fortunately I never worked there. I know some radar engineers who worked for them on JORN though.
A standard outlet delivers at most enough power to run a vacuum cleaner. At that rate, you're going to be recharging for something on the order of one hour for each mile driven. Maybe they can charge from a regular outlet in case of emergency, but that would not be suitable for daily recharging.
Most of the world runs on 220-250V. I think the US made a bad guess with 110V. It is too expensive to deliver high current at low voltage.
So why did Telstra not want to win this? It seems the perfect out. Submit a half baked proposal and omit an obvious required detail. It looks like they tried but actually they wanted to fail. Interesting.
The loser gets to focus their workforce on profitable urban customers, while the winner sends their staff into the outback pulling cables through the desert to snare 150 homes.
They are being paid for it but it means taking people away from other tasks.
I was once a member of the Michael Smith webring. Years ago when I worked for Vic Roads another Michael Smith was in management in a different department. He kept applying for these management stream courses but because I was first in a list somewhere (and the incompetence of HR) I kept getting the paperwork and turning up. I was a comp. sci. grad at the time so I was totally out of my depth. Eventually they sent both of us along and we got to exchange email addresses.
I hate Telstra as much as everybody else in this country but it seems to me that eliminating the biggest telecommunications carrier will reduce competition and push up prices.
At the very least it would be difficult for whoever wins the bid to not work with Telstra at some point, because of the amount of infrastructure they control.
Some people were convinced the fire was caused by what may have been a meteorite, which was seen from various parts of the upper North Island streaking across the sky just after 10 o'clock.
This is why I don't buy lottery tickets or insurance. Any moment now my car or building or whatever could be hit my a meteorite and I could likely sell it for a LOT of money, especially if it was a certain type. If I suddenly saw one smash my car I'd be like, "YEEEESSS!"
In the UK, the equivalent to the ER department at a hospital is normally referred to as the casualty department, where they don't just deal with dead people.
I would say the biggest risk to the owners fire insurance is that possibility that the sole person in the building at the time turns out to be the cause of the fire.
I don't know abut Ubuntu, but on many distros, you can turn off or suspend real-time indexing. Otherwise, you're indexing the file system, any web pages you crawl, etc. That takes a lot of juice.
In ubuntu it is too hard to turn off indexing. It always DOSs the machine for me and the speed control seems to have no effect.
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Most military and government equipment only looks cool from afar. Up close, it looks like hammered dog meat.
I think a lot of pilots and engineers would appreciate the lived in look of the shuttle flight deck.
Evergreen Aviation and Space Musuem, in McMinnville, west of Portland OR, has already erected 'coming soon' billboards and made space indoors for one of the retired Shuttle's...will be a nice bookend to their Titan II missle that stands upright in the newest exhibit hall.
Hmmm I wonder if a fueled up Titan II can lift a shuttle orbiter?
Just imagine how many electrons could be saved if people used this font in their browser.
I always recycle my electrons.
Everyone knows the rules, and nobody rocks the boat.
But it is also boring and lame. I spent a week working there this year and by the last day I was seeing the gaps all over the place. I think if I had to live in the region I would spend a lot of time in Malaysia which, despite its flaws, is more of a "real" country to me.
Singapore is a big shopping centre.
I am sure RAH never heard of you either.
I live in Australia and I work for a European software company. We spend a lot of money on business class tickets between our sites.
Long flights are expensive because you have to pay the labour for the crew for more than a day. Sea transport was more expensive than air transport for the same reason.
If a semi-ballistic transport can be made reliable then a lot of money will be saved on time alone. The problem is that going half way around the Earth uses almost as much fuel as going into orbit, so you need a complete shuttle stack to do it.
SpaceX have been making progress with their liquid fueled engines lately. I wonder how you would go connecting the guts of one of their rockets to something more like a spaceplane?
...to name it after Robert Heinlein.
One thought I had during this thread is that if the distribution system is run by a company which does only that then it is easier to regulate as a monopoly, because the accounting is very simple.
Actually I have choice for my electricity and my phone and my natural gas.
Could you explain how that works? I'm honestly curious. Are their multiple gas pipes and electric cables running to your house?
I have one of each going to my house but I can buy gas, water and power from different companies. I never deal with the companies which own and maintain the actual pipes and cables, that is done by my service provider.
I was once a member of the Michael Smith webring.
I think I used to work for you during Sol's early tenure. Key=The Russian dev team didn't half suck, did it? The ladies were good looking, but the Russian PM with the bad stammer, who would tell you how to build a clock if you asked him the time ... (shudder).
Are you talking about Telstra? Fortunately I never worked there. I know some radar engineers who worked for them on JORN though.
A standard outlet delivers at most enough power to run a vacuum cleaner. At that rate, you're going to be recharging for something on the order of one hour for each mile driven. Maybe they can charge from a regular outlet in case of emergency, but that would not be suitable for daily recharging.
Most of the world runs on 220-250V. I think the US made a bad guess with 110V. It is too expensive to deliver high current at low voltage.
So why did Telstra not want to win this? It seems the perfect out. Submit a half baked proposal and omit an obvious required detail. It looks like they tried but actually they wanted to fail. Interesting.
The loser gets to focus their workforce on profitable urban customers, while the winner sends their staff into the outback pulling cables through the desert to snare 150 homes.
They are being paid for it but it means taking people away from other tasks.
P.S. I am Michael Smith also.
I was once a member of the Michael Smith webring. Years ago when I worked for Vic Roads another Michael Smith was in management in a different department. He kept applying for these management stream courses but because I was first in a list somewhere (and the incompetence of HR) I kept getting the paperwork and turning up. I was a comp. sci. grad at the time so I was totally out of my depth. Eventually they sent both of us along and we got to exchange email addresses.
I hate Telstra as much as everybody else in this country but it seems to me that eliminating the biggest telecommunications carrier will reduce competition and push up prices.
At the very least it would be difficult for whoever wins the bid to not work with Telstra at some point, because of the amount of infrastructure they control.
And I for one welcome our alien masters.
Yeah but it'd be cool to be the home of superman don't you think?
...no I don't think so.
[citation needed]
Some guy called Mike.
This is why I don't buy lottery tickets or insurance. Any moment now my car or building or whatever could be hit my a meteorite and I could likely sell it for a LOT of money, especially if it was a certain type. If I suddenly saw one smash my car I'd be like, "YEEEESSS!"
I'll go and find a rock then.
Mostly dead.
In the UK, the equivalent to the ER department at a hospital is normally referred to as the casualty department, where they don't just deal with dead people.
There wouldn't be any point, would there?
Casualties can mean injuries as well as deaths, at least in this part of the world.
I would say the biggest risk to the owners fire insurance is that possibility that the sole person in the building at the time turns out to be the cause of the fire.
The ipod touch has use cases which overlap with netbooks. Games would be one.
I don't know abut Ubuntu, but on many distros, you can turn off or suspend real-time indexing. Otherwise, you're indexing the file system, any web pages you crawl, etc. That takes a lot of juice.
In ubuntu it is too hard to turn off indexing. It always DOSs the machine for me and the speed control seems to have no effect.
IMHO it should be off by default.