Second off, you can't have everything. The shuttle is a decent LEO craft. It was never meant to be a lunar, interplanetary vehicle. Build something else for that.
You may use an airplane to ship small amounts of cargo across the planet, but if you want to move mountains, you use cargo ships.
Same thing with space craft. It's just a lesson NASA seemed to have forgotten in the aftermath of the Apollo heyday.
Actually, the shuttle CANNOT detach from the SRBs until they burn out. Because the SRBs cannot be throttled, until the SSMEs can maintain a speed faster than the SRBs, you take a greater risk that the SRBs will spin into your flight path.
You are misinformed. Columbia was the only shuttle that had issues with reaching the ISS. She was heavier than the other shuttles, and didn't have certain features necessary for docking, including the collar, IIRC. Well, we don't have that problem now, do we?
Every other shuttle has undergone maintenance specifically to be able to reach the ISS, and NASAs stated objectives are that no non-ISS flights will be made, with the possible exception of the Hubble repair flight.
Oh please, you're comparing apples and automobiles man, not even in the same class. You losing your posh home (by the standards of these people) and car is nothing compared to dying a miserable death from malaria, dysentery or starvation, or lack of potable water.
IE won because it started supporting DHTML long before Netscape ever did, and that's where all the media companies were pushing it. More sites were incompatible with Netscape after 1998-9 that it really wasn't an option. And once IE got javascript, it snowballed.
Blame the webmasters for IE being the success it is, and for the Netscape team for letting it suck so bad, living off that IPO money.
It's common to liquid rockets, particularly when you want to throttle up after achieving maximum dynamic pressure so you don't destroy your rocket against a ceiling of high-speed high-pressure atmosphere.
Don't forget escape options that aren't limited to having to nearly achieve orbit to work (which indeed, are caused by those FUCKING SRBs (which in themselves are marvels of engineering)).
Lynch did this thing in the original movie with Inner Dialog that I think made the original so hard to beat. What I found most annoying about the remakes was their constant verbal conversations simply to explain basic facts of the universe, where with the original it was like slowly peeling an onion...
I watched the movie before I ever read the books (years in fact) and I felt it was a relatively well executed production. Made some cuts in some important areas, perhaps, but as a piece of entertainment, overall well done. As opposed to it's successors...:-/
Why don't people understand that there are some of us out here who depend on Cygwin because we're enslaved to Windows, and want a decent toolchain to work with, and we want interoperability with our Unix counterparts?
Free software is about choice. You would deny Windows users that same choice that you trumpet from the parapets all day long about the One True OS - Linux? Free software is also about zero cost, you would deny that as well to the windows world? You'd also deny Mac users a powerful user/development experience wouldn't you? What a load of hypocrisy.
You honestly thing that a bargain basement commodity PC of the Indigo 2 era would or could massively outperform it? Running what? Windows?
Oh, how I wish I still had the gigabytes of performance logs of Pro/ENGINEER from that era to prove you wrong...
Best thing about the SGI was the keyboard man. If I could get a wireless SGI keyboard, I would. If I ever had to go back to corded keyboards, it'd be SGI all the way, man...
SGI was hurting in 1996, 1997. PC based graphics workstations at $10K US with $5K graphics cards were performing on par with SGI Indy 2s clocking in at $30K.
Intergraph's TD/TDZ series comes to mind as perhaps the top of the heap (yet most poorly marketed). As AccelGraphics and others pumped low-cost high-powered 3D cards into the market (that eventually spawned 3dfx and their successors), SGI became less useful for it's hardware, and most important for it's software. Microsoft's purchase of SoftImage (in my office anyway) was the final nail being set in the coffin.
When I left Parametric in 1997 after 3 1/2 years of CAD/CAM benchmarking, SGI was already toying with the idea of Intel based computers. Netpower (now defunct) was moving from MIPS to Merced, DEC was in it's waning days, and Compaq was sending us more hardware than you can shake a stick at for performance qualification.
In 1997, the CPU performance gap was much different than in 2000. The Pentium Pro/II was just starting to thrash the competition as Intel kept ramping up the speeds, and the addition of cheap (relatively) 3D OpenGL cards just made the job easier.
Why do you fail to understand that the Libertarian plank you so despise eliminates the very problem you wasted 400 words describing?
You can never eliminate addiction, but through legalization, these unruly elements that so destroyed your neighborhood will go to licensed purveyors of product.
When was the last time an alcoholic created traffic distributing product in your neighborhood? Right, never. Taking drugs out of the underground will help us correct these highly criminal issues. It does nothing to help the addiction problem, and I will concede that it might make it worse. I'd rather deal with 10 of my friends addicted to coke than lose a single one to a single crazed criminal with a gun looking for a fix, when in a sane world, he could get it at CVS for $10. Fuck that, I'd rather be addicted myself than lose a single one of my friends to a violent drug crime; one can kick an addiction, one can't raise the dead...
The Libertarians don't claim to be perfect, they only offer a solution to help make the situation BETTER. Something you "physical conservatives" will solve with more police, more jails, and bullets. I'd rather those prison tax dollars I spend go to rehab anyway.
We're throwing tens of billions of dollars at the War on Drugs, a hundred billion since Reagan took office. Guess what? We're. Not. Winning.
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Right, and HPaq owns the Alpha, which is why:
A) They're pulling out of Itanium
B) You can still buy Alphaservers.
First off, FYI, there is no such thing as -600F.
Second off, you can't have everything. The shuttle is a decent LEO craft. It was never meant to be a lunar, interplanetary vehicle. Build something else for that.
You may use an airplane to ship small amounts of cargo across the planet, but if you want to move mountains, you use cargo ships.
Same thing with space craft. It's just a lesson NASA seemed to have forgotten in the aftermath of the Apollo heyday.
Actually, the shuttle CANNOT detach from the SRBs until they burn out. Because the SRBs cannot be throttled, until the SSMEs can maintain a speed faster than the SRBs, you take a greater risk that the SRBs will spin into your flight path.
You are misinformed. Columbia was the only shuttle that had issues with reaching the ISS. She was heavier than the other shuttles, and didn't have certain features necessary for docking, including the collar, IIRC. Well, we don't have that problem now, do we?
Every other shuttle has undergone maintenance specifically to be able to reach the ISS, and NASAs stated objectives are that no non-ISS flights will be made, with the possible exception of the Hubble repair flight.
Considering that everything was B&W back then, quite right!
Are humans not net consumers of CO2?
Oh please, you're comparing apples and automobiles man, not even in the same class. You losing your posh home (by the standards of these people) and car is nothing compared to dying a miserable death from malaria, dysentery or starvation, or lack of potable water.
Not. Even. Fucking. Comparable.
IE won because it started supporting DHTML long before Netscape ever did, and that's where all the media companies were pushing it. More sites were incompatible with Netscape after 1998-9 that it really wasn't an option. And once IE got javascript, it snowballed.
Blame the webmasters for IE being the success it is, and for the Netscape team for letting it suck so bad, living off that IPO money.
There is NO FUCKING WAY that I'm dying in a plane crash with a perfectly good parachute on my back. Let me the Fuck Out.
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Or just use ODBC...
when postgresql gets two phased commits, that gap will shrink.
You DO know you can turn Steam off, right?
Only that it must be running to run Valve games... how is that bad for a content-delivery-on-payment system?
It's common to liquid rockets, particularly when you want to throttle up after achieving maximum dynamic pressure so you don't destroy your rocket against a ceiling of high-speed high-pressure atmosphere.
Don't forget escape options that aren't limited to having to nearly achieve orbit to work (which indeed, are caused by those FUCKING SRBs (which in themselves are marvels of engineering)).
Lynch did this thing in the original movie with Inner Dialog that I think made the original so hard to beat. What I found most annoying about the remakes was their constant verbal conversations simply to explain basic facts of the universe, where with the original it was like slowly peeling an onion...
:-/
I watched the movie before I ever read the books (years in fact) and I felt it was a relatively well executed production. Made some cuts in some important areas, perhaps, but as a piece of entertainment, overall well done. As opposed to it's successors...
E:FC died when they killed Boone off.
A season, two tops?
Why don't people understand that there are some of us out here who depend on Cygwin because we're enslaved to Windows, and want a decent toolchain to work with, and we want interoperability with our Unix counterparts?
This CD fits that role nicely.
Free software is about choice. You would deny Windows users that same choice that you trumpet from the parapets all day long about the One True OS - Linux? Free software is also about zero cost, you would deny that as well to the windows world? You'd also deny Mac users a powerful user/development experience wouldn't you? What a load of hypocrisy.
Which neglects the fact that printer drivers are INDEED stored at each end-user workstation.
Though they may be dynamically loaded at printer connect time, they are still there.
In which case you would be right. A GeForce 2, perhaps. Certainly not anything newer. Okay, maybe only a Voodoo 2. :-)
You honestly thing that a bargain basement commodity PC of the Indigo 2 era would or could massively outperform it? Running what? Windows?
Oh, how I wish I still had the gigabytes of performance logs of Pro/ENGINEER from that era to prove you wrong...
Best thing about the SGI was the keyboard man. If I could get a wireless SGI keyboard, I would. If I ever had to go back to corded keyboards, it'd be SGI all the way, man...
SGI was hurting in 1996, 1997. PC based graphics workstations at $10K US with $5K graphics cards were performing on par with SGI Indy 2s clocking in at $30K.
Intergraph's TD/TDZ series comes to mind as perhaps the top of the heap (yet most poorly marketed). As AccelGraphics and others pumped low-cost high-powered 3D cards into the market (that eventually spawned 3dfx and their successors), SGI became less useful for it's hardware, and most important for it's software. Microsoft's purchase of SoftImage (in my office anyway) was the final nail being set in the coffin.
When I left Parametric in 1997 after 3 1/2 years of CAD/CAM benchmarking, SGI was already toying with the idea of Intel based computers. Netpower (now defunct) was moving from MIPS to Merced, DEC was in it's waning days, and Compaq was sending us more hardware than you can shake a stick at for performance qualification.
In 1997, the CPU performance gap was much different than in 2000. The Pentium Pro/II was just starting to thrash the competition as Intel kept ramping up the speeds, and the addition of cheap (relatively) 3D OpenGL cards just made the job easier.
Why do you fail to understand that the Libertarian plank you so despise eliminates the very problem you wasted 400 words describing?
You can never eliminate addiction, but through legalization, these unruly elements that so destroyed your neighborhood will go to licensed purveyors of product.
When was the last time an alcoholic created traffic distributing product in your neighborhood?
Right, never. Taking drugs out of the underground will help us correct these highly criminal issues. It does nothing to help the addiction problem, and I will concede that it might make it worse. I'd rather deal with 10 of my friends addicted to coke than lose a single one to a single crazed criminal with a gun looking for a fix, when in a sane world, he could get it at CVS for $10. Fuck that, I'd rather be addicted myself than lose a single one of my friends to a violent drug crime; one can kick an addiction, one can't raise the dead...
The Libertarians don't claim to be perfect, they only offer a solution to help make the situation BETTER. Something you "physical conservatives" will solve with more police, more jails, and bullets. I'd rather those prison tax dollars I spend go to rehab anyway.
We're throwing tens of billions of dollars at the War on Drugs, a hundred billion since Reagan took office. Guess what? We're. Not. Winning.
Batteries powered by CMB radiation. Now that would be the ultimate in free power...