Yeah and how many Apple users are running on anything but the latest OSX version? pretty much none, the numbers are so low as to be meaningless.
Wish that were true, but businesses who've slashed IT spending as a reacton to the tough economy of recent years are keeping their people stuck with old PCs using WinXP and/or, where applicable, old Macs using OS X 10.5 (Leopard). In my case, it's both -- i.e., old PC with WinXP and old Mac with OS X 10.5.
and then there was that other one with green background and red letters....horrible L&F. Thankfully I forgot the name of it.
Hotbot?
I don't remember the letters' colors, but the lime-green background -- yeah, that sticks with you like the bad taste resulting from a late-night case of acid reflux. (For those of you not so afflicted, trust me on that part.)
You are correct, and I should've been more specific. In Apollos 12 through 17, TLI put the S-4B/Apollo stack on a free-return trajectory; and, then, an early mid-course correction burn (perhaps MCC #1; don't recall) would put the Apollo CSM and successfully docked/extracted LM on the non-free-return trajectory.
Yes and no. The slingshot or "free-return" method was taken out of the default mission starting with Apollo 12 because it was believed that they could achieve a more accurate orbital path, and thereby lunar landing, that way. Remember that the Apollo 11 landing occurred roughly four miles off target, but it was the only one of the six eventual landings that didn't land where they'd planned. Getting back on free-return was always considered an option in case of an emergency, as occurred with Apollo 13.
Working purely off memory, but I do know that getting on free-return was mentioned early on in the post-explosion hours.
Oblig: Get off my lawn.
CMS experience will be invaluable to him. Increasingly, companies are refusing to do it any other way. Unless you and he are absolutely sure he will never, ever have to work for someone else, he needs to learn the CMS way ASAP. I hate to say that because I've been hand-coding for 15 years, but it's also why I am saying that. I'll leave it at that.
Mod this guy up, AC though he may be (and, as he says, AC "for obvious reasons"). And for the ones with "tl;dr" knee-jerk responses ready to go, this post is long but very much worth reading. Too bad one of the most informative posts in the whole thread is so far down, since many therefore won't take the time to read it.
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You forgot "[Citation needed]" but, otherwise, well played, sir.
Wish that were true, but businesses who've slashed IT spending as a reacton to the tough economy of recent years are keeping their people stuck with old PCs using WinXP and/or, where applicable, old Macs using OS X 10.5 (Leopard). In my case, it's both -- i.e., old PC with WinXP and old Mac with OS X 10.5.
Perhaps also related to NC's being a "right-to-work" state. TFA didn't mention that as a factor, so I'm just guessing.
Hotbot?
I don't remember the letters' colors, but the lime-green background -- yeah, that sticks with you like the bad taste resulting from a late-night case of acid reflux. (For those of you not so afflicted, trust me on that part.)
From now on, will a link to this story substitute for the fabled "Beowulf cluster" meme? We shall see.
Um, Saturn 5?
"*real news channel"
"such as Fox News"
> WHOOSH not detected
> does not compute
> humor fail
> end program
Funny indeed, but just in case anyone thought this was a true story about Secretary Clinton (then-Senator Clinton):
Snopes rates this 'FALSE'.
If it weren't already at "5, Insightful," would deserve some uprating purely for the Dr. Strangelove reference.
Ssshhh, he's talking about management.
Not to mention you'll also have learned to put your shoes away when your wife-in-the-dream tells you to do so.
You are correct, and I should've been more specific. In Apollos 12 through 17, TLI put the S-4B/Apollo stack on a free-return trajectory; and, then, an early mid-course correction burn (perhaps MCC #1; don't recall) would put the Apollo CSM and successfully docked/extracted LM on the non-free-return trajectory.
Yes and no. The slingshot or "free-return" method was taken out of the default mission starting with Apollo 12 because it was believed that they could achieve a more accurate orbital path, and thereby lunar landing, that way. Remember that the Apollo 11 landing occurred roughly four miles off target, but it was the only one of the six eventual landings that didn't land where they'd planned. Getting back on free-return was always considered an option in case of an emergency, as occurred with Apollo 13. Working purely off memory, but I do know that getting on free-return was mentioned early on in the post-explosion hours. Oblig: Get off my lawn.
Sorry to reply to myself but just noting the obvious, namely that TFS does have that link now. Guess I caught it pre-"oops."
TFS linked only to another Slashdot thread. The TechCrunch article TFS mentions is:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/29/surprisingly-good-evidence-that-real-name-policies-fail-to-improve-comments/
1974 version: Yeah, Nixon shoulda just burned those tapes.
I sincerely hope you neither have, nor ever will have, a daughter.
That is without a doubt the least verbose post I've ever seen from APK. Hope this marks a new trend.
CMS experience will be invaluable to him. Increasingly, companies are refusing to do it any other way. Unless you and he are absolutely sure he will never, ever have to work for someone else, he needs to learn the CMS way ASAP. I hate to say that because I've been hand-coding for 15 years, but it's also why I am saying that. I'll leave it at that.
But only once, obviously. Unless you're one of those computer-using cats I'm always seeing on YouTube.
Good perspective here, IMHO:
Ars Technica review of this op-ed
Nice way to sneak a Matrix line in there.
Yeah, that Romney never uses a teleprompter. You betcha.
Mod this guy up, AC though he may be (and, as he says, AC "for obvious reasons"). And for the ones with "tl;dr" knee-jerk responses ready to go, this post is long but very much worth reading. Too bad one of the most informative posts in the whole thread is so far down, since many therefore won't take the time to read it.