What the blurb says is that although the AI decided to launch a little early/grin/ it was a pretty good run and (it landed in the sea near the shoreline). The 30k were spent for this second demo rocket (the propulsion seems to use a mistery catalyst on top of what's mentioned online) - the main project is the 200k$ Orizont vehicle (apparently not entirely funded yet).
They do acknowledge that there are teams ahead of them both in funds and project schedule, but they still want to go ahead. Kudos to them. Also they've started merchandising in the US...
In the end even if they don't reach space they could start another mushroom cloud over North Korea and get on slashdot again (amazingly the webserver is still alive and well)...
The only MASSIVE increase would be in access time, but dunno about bandwith (SD, CF and friends aren't that fast - maybe with some kind of internal redundant arrangement, a la RAID, if it's not already used) or reliability (they have a limited number of write cycles - the swap file on a machine low on RAM or on a file server would probably burn a hole through it...).
The fact that the russians can reach the space station turned out quite useful, didn't it? Otherwise there wouldn't have been any pizza deliveries to the ISS until the shuttle program restarts (IF it does).
and remember: in Soviet Russia bosons collide you!
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One thought: read your own link: http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-voicetool s/index.html
They probably had budget cuts and skipped upgrading those Pentium Is with floating point problems - now the Matrix is overflowing...
What the blurb says is that although the AI decided to launch a little early /grin/ it was a pretty good run and (it landed in the sea near the shoreline). The 30k were spent for this second demo rocket (the propulsion seems to use a mistery catalyst on top of what's mentioned online) - the main project is the 200k$ Orizont vehicle (apparently not entirely funded yet).
They do acknowledge that there are teams ahead of them both in funds and project schedule, but they still want to go ahead. Kudos to them. Also they've started merchandising in the US...
In the end even if they don't reach space they could start another mushroom cloud over North Korea and get on slashdot again (amazingly the webserver is still alive and well)...
RTFA mr. 'D'! The guy says that he can't make vertical text with anything else _but_ IE - maybe you should give him a hand
Hey, 640K should be enough for everyone! 640K of 640K of 640K of...
A WiFi-sniffing dog, obviously! I wonder if it does full 802.11a/b/g and if it has upgradable firmware...
The only MASSIVE increase would be in access time, but dunno about bandwith (SD, CF and friends aren't that fast - maybe with some kind of internal redundant arrangement, a la RAID, if it's not already used) or reliability (they have a limited number of write cycles - the swap file on a machine low on RAM or on a file server would probably burn a hole through it...).
And remember kids: in Soviet Russia dipols levitate YOU!
The fact that the russians can reach the space station turned out quite useful, didn't it? Otherwise there wouldn't have been any pizza deliveries to the ISS until the shuttle program restarts (IF it does). and remember: in Soviet Russia bosons collide you!