I had a similar experience with my first batch. I used a DIY kit from a local brewery wholesaler. Came with premade canned liquid malt, and I had to do the final brewing. Had the same dry yeast rehydrated.
I have to tell you, I was NOT prepared for the smell. Hops in the kitchen, and the mass attraction that all the little bugs in the house had for the fermented gases. The damn carboy was SURROUNDED by dead bugs after 2 weeks of fermenting. Thank god for fermentation locks.
Oh, now if only I could figure out what to brew this summer.
Yup. My first batch of homebrew (5 gallons) lasted exactly 15 minutes. I wasted an hour bottling and capping it. I should have just put a spigot on the bucket, like the Gatorade coolers.:-)
The Sam Adams and Corona's were still sitting in the fridge at the end of the night (Sam Octoberfest, fresh in a keg).
Although I *WAS* lambasted for it being too chewy... I didn't filter it putting it into the bottles, and got a bit of sediment in them. Live and learn, right?
The problem is that the English language is very context sensitive, and a simple thing like a comma in the wrong place can dramatically change the substance and meaning of your message. By not using proper grammar and punctuation, not only are you showing your complete lack of respect for your reader, in that you are too important or careless to take the time to compose a well structured message, but you might be sending the absolute wrong message to your audience. (And I think that qualifies for my run-on-sentence of the day.)
Right, it's silly to justify or compare it to previous terrestrial endeavours, because this is something completley different. No one before has gotten on a big metal phallic piece of machinery filled with 2,000,000 pounds of fuel, and intentionally ignited it time and time and time again.
No matter how "safe" you make it, the very act of turning those engines on and running them up to speed will always carry the risk of self-destruction. The fact that the SSME's have never blown themselves apart strikes me as absolutely amazing, considering the metallurgical and operating stresses the turbopumps go through. You couldn't pay me enough to design jet/rocket engines (assuming I was smart enough to do so).
I still grip the arms of my plane seat every time the pilot runs the engines up to full throttle, because I've *SEEN* what happens to high-pressure high-rpm compressor fans when a piece of fan blade get's fatigued enough to fail. I still fly though. (But never on a plane with 666 for a tail number - who's the idiot at Southwest who planned THAT?):-)
Except that 1) Microsoft is likely to be using Winzip, just like every other windows corporation in the universe, and 2) might actually be able to read those fine Koffice.RTF's.:-)
Nah, what you really need to do is send them some uuencoded ROT13'd latex documents. That'd get 'em good.
Which doesn't necessarily bother me. I'm not against companies trying to make money and/or protect their stuff if their not abusing the law to do so. If said company doesn't want to make a driver public, they don't have to. But I'd like at least SOME driver support. And if their not willing to do drivers for all platforms, then by golly, they should at least tell *ME* how to do it myself.
Even if I fuck it up, I'm still better off, because maybe YOU can do it better than me, but no one can do it well if no one has the info to at least try.
Protecting PR is one thing. Constraining your customers by being lazy is another.
Great, so instead of having "One web", we have a million compuservs, AOLs and Earthlinks all with portal controlled interwebs. God I love that plan! 40 browsers and activex/java plugins to buy your next DVD online.
It's really hard to hush-up a really big penis-shaped object screaming into the sky at supersonic speeds.:-) Now what's actually ON the rocket is a different story.
What you forget is that politicians crippled the shuttle in the first place, and then in 1986 pressured a launch that ultimately doomed the Challenger. A launch that no engineer who built her SRB's wanted to happen, because they KNEW the likelihood of O-Ring blow-by was high.
As for Columbia, we will likely find a politically motivated, but human-induced sequence of cover-ups, misconceptions, and plain old fashioned negligence killed her.
None of which is related directly to orbiter performance. Both problems that have killed our space craft were well known and understood when they happened (presuming that the foam killed the tiles on Columbia, or course).
Even if you win that lottery ticket, you don't even come close to Billy's wealth.
And since Billy's wealth is intrinsicly tied to the price of Microsoft stock, that's all that Billy effectively has. A lot of lottery tickets that could be worth billions, or not.
But jeez, Billy's got so muhcm oney, he can't even keep up with giving it away.
Because of federal insider trading rules, Billy can't do his profit taking in a timely enough fashion to actually allow him to claim 30billion dollars. Such a move would cause an instant panic in the MSFT stock, and reduce his price to pennies per share.
Comparing IE 3.0 to Netscape 3 and 4? IE 3.0 was a complete waste of disk space. IE got really good when 4.0 came out, I'll give you that, and 4.01 while only a point release, seriously improved IE's javascript to the point that it rendered Netscape a useless toy. It is infact, IE 4.0 that turned me away from Netscape for good, although Mozilla is bringing me back.:-)
The grandparent post had a lot of good points. The fundamental problem with the STS program was that it was stopped before it ever got going. If you need a contemporary aerospace parallel, look no further than the SR-71. It was a fantastic aircraft, but it was never taken and turned into something better. It was a dead-end. Supersonic airframe research in the Mach 3+ realm all but died once the SR-71 came about. 30+ years later we still have no contemporary aircraft that could compete with it. In fact, we're currently racing to catch up.
The shuttle program was killed at four orbiters, and never allowed to evolve. It's all been about keeping what's working working, instead of taking the lessons we've learned and making them better. When was the last time the SSME had a serious reengineering that incorporated contemporary metallurgic and rocket science?
So you can take that $100b program lifetime cost that the shuttle has, or maybe it's $200 billion, and amortize it over 5 vehicles, instead of the 20 that were supposed to be built.
Yes, the orbiter has had it's incremental upgrades, but nothing on the order of revolutionary. Whatever happened to liquid-fueled outboard boosters, instead of the SRB's? No money. How about redesigned, less complex and more robust SSME's? No money.
Yes, the STS is a program in search of a vision, but what I really think is that the STS is really what the space transport industry needs. A flexible launch platform that can carry significant cargo, and yet gain those great leaps in reliability that come from evolutionary development. The STS was designed in the 1970's, and has effectively stayed there.
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Everyone knows that spaceflight is still very dangerous. In the case of a Shuttle, the odds just caught up. That's not a failure.
And the odds caught up because the shuttle carries double the crew that any previous craft carried.
Each shuttle has killed 2 1/3 times as many people as the only Apollo accident. What kind of ruckus are we gonna raise when the first 50 passenger spaceliner disintegrates on reentry?
I'm very against this whole "risk averse" attitude America is so involved in. Risk is good, risk drives us to make things safer, but smartly, without emotion and without pandering by political puppets. Negligence on the other hand, is not a good thing, and it seems that NASA was very negligent in fixing this problem that they've known about for a while.
I don't think the major issue people are going to have is that Shuttles are crashing and burning. What they are going to have a problem with is NASA lying and cheating, and putting lives at risk, those in space, and those on the ground. It's kind of like the Enron scandal all over again. Shitloads of media bluster, lots of politicians yammering and jabbering their flip-top heads, and in the end, NOTHING GETS DONE. Status quo.
God I love this country.
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You can't ground the flight once it's already in orbit, which is when they discovered that Columbia "took a hit".
Too late. Done with. If it turns out that NASA screwed the pooch with regards to the External Tank, then yeah, they got a problem.
It's called evolution. If humans are ever going to colonize the universe, we HAVE to develop a tolerance to radiation. What better way than what we've been doing?
Those who can tolerate mutations caused by cellphone and UWB radiation will give rise to children that can tolerate even greater levels. We've removed one selection pressure (hunger and predators) and replaced it with others (recycled and processed foods, constant radiation bombardment).
I see this is a good thing. If it means my granchildren's kids can walk around on Mars in a t-shirt with a SCBA pack, I'm all for it.
While of course all of our software should be correct, using the Operating System to make software more robust is almost always a good thing.
You know, that's the very same thing that Microsoft does every day, and yet your praise Linux for doing it, and condemning Microsoft. That is what I most find interesting about this community...
I wouldn't call 430-someodd Congressional Representatives and 100 Senators "widespread support".
Technology is going to render representative democracy an archaic relic. I only hope it happens in my lifetime.
Although I do shudder when I thing of the kinds of craziness engendered by a futuristic slashvote.org. Ugh. Think of the millions of First Vote posts we'll have to suffer through?;-)
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I had a similar experience with my first batch. I used a DIY kit from a local brewery wholesaler. Came with premade canned liquid malt, and I had to do the final brewing. Had the same dry yeast rehydrated.
I have to tell you, I was NOT prepared for the smell. Hops in the kitchen, and the mass attraction that all the little bugs in the house had for the fermented gases. The damn carboy was SURROUNDED by dead bugs after 2 weeks of fermenting. Thank god for fermentation locks.
Oh, now if only I could figure out what to brew this summer.
Yup. My first batch of homebrew (5 gallons) lasted exactly 15 minutes. I wasted an hour bottling and capping it. I should have just put a spigot on the bucket, like the Gatorade coolers. :-)
The Sam Adams and Corona's were still sitting in the fridge at the end of the night (Sam Octoberfest, fresh in a keg).
Although I *WAS* lambasted for it being too chewy... I didn't filter it putting it into the bottles, and got a bit of sediment in them. Live and learn, right?
The problem is that the English language is very context sensitive, and a simple thing like a comma in the wrong place can dramatically change the substance and meaning of your message. By not using proper grammar and punctuation, not only are you showing your complete lack of respect for your reader, in that you are too important or careless to take the time to compose a well structured message, but you might be sending the absolute wrong message to your audience. (And I think that qualifies for my run-on-sentence of the day.)
Right, it's silly to justify or compare it to previous terrestrial endeavours, because this is something completley different. No one before has gotten on a big metal phallic piece of machinery filled with 2,000,000 pounds of fuel, and intentionally ignited it time and time and time again.
:-)
No matter how "safe" you make it, the very act of turning those engines on and running them up to speed will always carry the risk of self-destruction. The fact that the SSME's have never blown themselves apart strikes me as absolutely amazing, considering the metallurgical and operating stresses the turbopumps go through.
You couldn't pay me enough to design jet/rocket engines (assuming I was smart enough to do so).
I still grip the arms of my plane seat every time the pilot runs the engines up to full throttle, because I've *SEEN* what happens to high-pressure high-rpm compressor fans when a piece of fan blade get's fatigued enough to fail. I still fly though. (But never on a plane with 666 for a tail number - who's the idiot at Southwest who planned THAT?)
Except that 1) Microsoft is likely to be using Winzip, just like every other windows corporation in the universe, and 2) might actually be able to read those fine Koffice .RTF's. :-)
Nah, what you really need to do is send them some uuencoded ROT13'd latex documents. That'd get 'em good.
Which doesn't necessarily bother me. I'm not against companies trying to make money and/or protect their stuff if their not abusing the law to do so. If said company doesn't want to make a driver public, they don't have to. But I'd like at least SOME driver support. And if their not willing to do drivers for all platforms, then by golly, they should at least tell *ME* how to do it myself.
Even if I fuck it up, I'm still better off, because maybe YOU can do it better than me, but no one can do it well if no one has the info to at least try.
Protecting PR is one thing. Constraining your customers by being lazy is another.
I don't know if your browser renders tags or not, but you're just agreeing with we.
Great, so instead of having "One web", we have a million compuservs, AOLs and Earthlinks all with portal controlled interwebs. God I love that plan! 40 browsers and activex/java plugins to buy your next DVD online.
Sign me up.
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It's really hard to hush-up a really big penis-shaped object screaming into the sky at supersonic speeds. :-) Now what's actually ON the rocket is a different story.
What you forget is that politicians crippled the shuttle in the first place, and then in 1986 pressured a launch that ultimately doomed the Challenger. A launch that no engineer who built her SRB's wanted to happen, because they KNEW the likelihood of O-Ring blow-by was high.
As for Columbia, we will likely find a politically motivated, but human-induced sequence of cover-ups, misconceptions, and plain old fashioned negligence killed her.
None of which is related directly to orbiter performance. Both problems that have killed our space craft were well known and understood when they happened (presuming that the foam killed the tiles on Columbia, or course).
Which, I am forced to conclude, will be doomed from the start by political gerrymandering, and will get us no closer to the stars.
Gaffer's tape. Stronger, better, but not cheaper.
A PDA/Phone without a contrast adjustment? Seems kinda of 1980's, doesn't it?
And since Billy's wealth is intrinsicly tied to the price of Microsoft stock, that's all that Billy effectively has. A lot of lottery tickets that could be worth billions, or not.
But jeez, Billy's got so muhcm oney, he can't even keep up with giving it away.
Because of federal insider trading rules, Billy can't do his profit taking in a timely enough fashion to actually allow him to claim 30billion dollars. Such a move would cause an instant panic in the MSFT stock, and reduce his price to pennies per share.
Comparing IE 3.0 to Netscape 3 and 4? IE 3.0 was a complete waste of disk space. IE got really good when 4.0 came out, I'll give you that, and 4.01 while only a point release, seriously improved IE's javascript to the point that it rendered Netscape a useless toy. It is infact, IE 4.0 that turned me away from Netscape for good, although Mozilla is bringing me back. :-)
Happens all the time when cops do something like, oh, fail to read you your miranda rights before you give your heartfelt slobbering confession.
Why should private industry be any different. If you want to sue someone for inflicting you misery, you still have to play by the rules.
The grandparent post had a lot of good points. The fundamental problem with the STS program was that it was stopped before it ever got going. If you need a contemporary aerospace parallel, look no further than the SR-71. It was a fantastic aircraft, but it was never taken and turned into something better. It was a dead-end. Supersonic airframe research in the Mach 3+ realm all but died once the SR-71 came about. 30+ years later we still have no contemporary aircraft that could compete with it. In fact, we're currently racing to catch up.
The shuttle program was killed at four orbiters, and never allowed to evolve. It's all been about keeping what's working working, instead of taking the lessons we've learned and making them better. When was the last time the SSME had a serious reengineering that incorporated contemporary metallurgic and rocket science?
So you can take that $100b program lifetime cost that the shuttle has, or maybe it's $200 billion, and amortize it over 5 vehicles, instead of the 20 that were supposed to be built.
Yes, the orbiter has had it's incremental upgrades, but nothing on the order of revolutionary. Whatever happened to liquid-fueled outboard boosters, instead of the SRB's? No money. How about redesigned, less complex and more robust SSME's? No money.
Yes, the STS is a program in search of a vision, but what I really think is that the STS is really what the space transport industry needs. A flexible launch platform that can carry significant cargo, and yet gain those great leaps in reliability that come from evolutionary development. The STS was designed in the 1970's, and has effectively stayed there.
And the odds caught up because the shuttle carries double the crew that any previous craft carried. Each shuttle has killed 2 1/3 times as many people as the only Apollo accident. What kind of ruckus are we gonna raise when the first 50 passenger spaceliner disintegrates on reentry?
I'm very against this whole "risk averse" attitude America is so involved in. Risk is good, risk drives us to make things safer, but smartly, without emotion and without pandering by political puppets. Negligence on the other hand, is not a good thing, and it seems that NASA was very negligent in fixing this problem that they've known about for a while.
I don't think the major issue people are going to have is that Shuttles are crashing and burning. What they are going to have a problem with is NASA lying and cheating, and putting lives at risk, those in space, and those on the ground. It's kind of like the Enron scandal all over again. Shitloads of media bluster, lots of politicians yammering and jabbering their flip-top heads, and in the end, NOTHING GETS DONE. Status quo.
God I love this country.
You can't ground the flight once it's already in orbit, which is when they discovered that Columbia "took a hit".
Too late. Done with. If it turns out that NASA screwed the pooch with regards to the External Tank, then yeah, they got a problem.
You know, it's funny you mention that. I don't think I've ever met ANYONE who has any sort of nostalgia for that POS....
How many people are going to be loving Windows95 in 20 years? Interesting... Hope we all live long enough to find out.
-Chris
It's called evolution. If humans are ever going to colonize the universe, we HAVE to develop a tolerance to radiation. What better way than what we've been doing?
Those who can tolerate mutations caused by cellphone and UWB radiation will give rise to children that can tolerate even greater levels. We've removed one selection pressure (hunger and predators) and replaced it with others (recycled and processed foods, constant radiation bombardment).
I see this is a good thing. If it means my granchildren's kids can walk around on Mars in a t-shirt with a SCBA pack, I'm all for it.
IIRC, 1994. I think it's always been in MS's 32 bit CRT.
While of course all of our software should be correct, using the Operating System to make software more robust is almost always a good thing.
You know, that's the very same thing that Microsoft does every day, and yet your praise Linux for doing it, and condemning Microsoft. That is what I most find interesting about this community...
-Chris
because geekdom is comprised of a bunch of wusses that drool at the very sight of a female, and have the social skills of a dead giraffe?
I don't think we need a mind reading device to figure that one out...
I wouldn't call 430-someodd Congressional Representatives and 100 Senators "widespread support".
;-)
Technology is going to render representative democracy an archaic relic. I only hope it happens in my lifetime.
Although I do shudder when I thing of the kinds of craziness engendered by a futuristic slashvote.org. Ugh. Think of the millions of First Vote posts we'll have to suffer through?