How do they know he was dead in the first place? Did they have George Clooney come and pronounce him dead at the Cross? Some Roman doctor got a time of death?
Throughout history there have been many instances of people thought dead, buried in graves even, only to have been determined to be alive, when they started walking again.
How could someone, 2000+ years ago, even CONCEIVE of a concept like 1 BILLION YEARS AGO. Many claim, although I'm not one of them since I don't actually believe anything in the bible, that Genesis is a metaphorical account of seven days. That mankind could not comprehend, at the time, how the good Lord spit out the Universe.
And it's a story. Unlike Moses, who walked up the mountain and came down with 10 commandments etched upon stone tablets, who wrote the story of Genesis and Adam and Eve in the garden? I've certainly never heard of Jeremiah climbing the mountain and speaking with God about his early work. They're fairy tales, told to children by parents who didn't have a fucking clue.
I haven't. Used ASP.Net that is... working on PHP these days. So much nicer than VB. But C# is an unknown quantity to me still. ASPs only real advantage over PHP and Perl was COM support and ADO. And those were really trivial advantages since Perl could talk COM, and PHP can as well.
I'm guessing I'll have to see to understand, but I'm guessing it's simply that Microsoft makes the better tools, and it's the default language for Windows IIS that makes it better. That's a guess, mind you. I haven't found Microsoft to create revolutionary language technologies, ActiveX was no better than MFC, for example, although CDO was certainly better than MAPI...
Microsoft makes only a few products that are truly the only commercially viable ones (Excluding the games division, which makes some great titles):
* Windows * Office (including Visio and Project)
Everything else has a commercially viable competitor available to it.
Notes vs. Exchange SQL Server vs. DB2 vs. Oracle vs. Sybase SMS vs. Norton
Which goes to show, by the fact that the majority of their revenue is provided by their Windows and Office lines, and not the rest.:-) While Exchange/SQL Server/etc. are great products, they have LOTS of competition, and this is something that MS would like to correct.
If someone *COULD* run Windows off a CD/DVD without touching my HDD's then yes, I'd consider letting them run it on my Linux machines. I'd maybe pop my drives out of their cages (hotswap), but that's about it.
If shareholder lawsuits happened often and were so easy to file, then every dotCom CEO who nosedived a company while taking a golden parachute would be breaking big rocks into little rocks in some federal prison right now.
That fact that I know at least 8 who are still at large means that other than outright FRAUD, EMBEZZLEMENT and THEFT, shareholders have ZERO capability to sue a company if there's a profit loss. The world/market/product is just too volatile for this to be the case.
If we catered to the lowest common denominator, we'd still be using smoke signals, living in caves, and eating our meat raw.
Supporting the infinitely DUMB is a pointless exercise. You have to assume a certain level of sophistication, especially with the web. Now we may have assumed the wrong level, and have to rethink how things are done, but we can't pander to the complete idiot. Those people will always manage to get themselves neck deep into it.
Spy satellites spend no mass on orienting themselves, they use special gyros that help alter their orientation. These are known as CMGs on the Hubble Space Telescope. Changing orbits, however, DOES require reaction mass. Something that is rarely done, I'm sure.
As to coverage, when a satellite is launched into a polar orbit (many spy satellites, if not most), you will eventually fly over EVERY SQUARE MILE of the planet earth. May take a while, but it will happen.
Funny thing was, he probably would have won a third term had that silly constitutional amendment not been in place... at least until the economy tanked...
So I'm searching driving directions around Salem, MA, trying to figure out commuting routes to my new job, and I'm scrolling and scrolling and scrolling, and am almost all the way (60 miles) to my house before I realize *WTF*...
Hmm... For those of us doing some form of AJAX (when it was Javascript and IFrames) for years, this sort of application is vindication...
If you honestly don't think that Morena Baccarin, Summer Glau, Adam Baldwin or Jewel Staite can't get better jobs than flipping burgers, you seriously need to get out of the house once in a while.:-P
Especially Morena and Jewel. Hell, I'll pay them just to come sit around the house and look pretty.
Which I think was fair. About time. Every series has to die. Farscape was reaching it's pinnacle, IMHO. Ratings were slipping, even as I first started getting involved in it... The miniseries was just a wonder end to the whole thing.
Now it's not playing on SciFi at all, which Sux0rz, because there's a lot of episodes I missed.
Recent episodes of 24 aside, the real answer is driving up to your target in a Ford Taurus. Small, inconspicuous, and such a low-tech solution as to almost guarantee success.
What do you think Gravity is? A free fall at 9.8m/s^2. Doesn't change whether from the ground or midair, you're still fighting the same force.
However, the dynamic forces exerted upon the vehicle are MUCH different than if it was sitting on a solid concrete pad. Something for the computers to account for....
Simple, when the X33 composite fuel tank encountered problems with layer separation, and they went to the Al fuel tank to finish the launch demonstrator while they worked out the kinks, both projects are now mothballed. So instead of focusing on building complex composite structures of such huge sizes with rabid intensity, the technology languishes.
Hell, such technology could be put immediately to use in the normal aerospace and boating industries.
DC-X was killed because of a design failure (using only 4 legs to land?) and a subsequent crash. Full-scale development never went past the drawing board. DC-X could have been the best of both worlds, SSTO, and blunt-body reentry.
You forgot the DC-X, another great rocket program axed by budget conscious administration...:-/
Buran's problem, like the STS, was doing a lateral mount on the booster. But at least Buran put the engines in the booster, and not the orbiter, where they are completely useless and increase landing weight.
An interesting anecdote to this whole story is that in 113 flights, only one had an SSME failure that required initiating an abort sequence which was an abort-to-orbit on Atlantis IIRC circa 1993 or so.
Challenger STS mission 51L was the 25th sequential shuttle mission, not the 51st. FYI. <url:http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/shut tle/mi ssions/missions.html>
All new processors are RISC because the memory bottlenext with having uniform instruction/word lengths is gone. Not having to shoehorn instructions and data into 16MB of memory or 2kb of cache has eliminated the need for the old CISC instruction packing.
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How do they know he was dead in the first place?
Did they have George Clooney come and pronounce him dead at the Cross? Some Roman doctor got a time of death?
Throughout history there have been many instances of people thought dead, buried in graves even, only to have been determined to be alive, when they started walking again.
How could someone, 2000+ years ago, even CONCEIVE of a concept like 1 BILLION YEARS AGO. Many claim, although I'm not one of them since I don't actually believe anything in the bible, that Genesis is a metaphorical account of seven days. That mankind could not comprehend, at the time, how the good Lord spit out the Universe.
And it's a story. Unlike Moses, who walked up the mountain and came down with 10 commandments etched upon stone tablets, who wrote the story of Genesis and Adam and Eve in the garden? I've certainly never heard of Jeremiah climbing the mountain and speaking with God about his early work. They're fairy tales, told to children by parents who didn't have a fucking clue.
I haven't. Used ASP.Net that is... working on PHP these days. So much nicer than VB. But C# is an unknown quantity to me still. ASPs only real advantage over PHP and Perl was COM support and ADO. And those were really trivial advantages since Perl could talk COM, and PHP can as well.
I'm guessing I'll have to see to understand, but I'm guessing it's simply that Microsoft makes the better tools, and it's the default language for Windows IIS that makes it better. That's a guess, mind you. I haven't found Microsoft to create revolutionary language technologies, ActiveX was no better than MFC, for example, although CDO was certainly better than MAPI...
Microsoft makes only a few products that are truly the only commercially viable ones (Excluding the games division, which makes some great titles):
:-) While Exchange/SQL Server/etc. are great products, they have LOTS of competition, and this is something that MS would like to correct.
* Windows
* Office (including Visio and Project)
Everything else has a commercially viable competitor available to it.
Notes vs. Exchange
SQL Server vs. DB2 vs. Oracle vs. Sybase
SMS vs. Norton
Which goes to show, by the fact that the majority of their revenue is provided by their Windows and Office lines, and not the rest.
If someone *COULD* run Windows off a CD/DVD without touching my HDD's then yes, I'd consider letting them run it on my Linux machines. I'd maybe pop my drives out of their cages (hotswap), but that's about it.
If shareholder lawsuits happened often and were so easy to file, then every dotCom CEO who nosedived a company while taking a golden parachute would be breaking big rocks into little rocks in some federal prison right now.
That fact that I know at least 8 who are still at large means that other than outright FRAUD, EMBEZZLEMENT and THEFT, shareholders have ZERO capability to sue a company if there's a profit loss. The world/market/product is just too volatile for this to be the case.
I use my AC on fan only, and it chills my 2nd floor bedroom right down. two window fans, both blow in, and my life is pleasant.
If you look closely, you'll notice he didn't.
If we catered to the lowest common denominator, we'd still be using smoke signals, living in caves, and eating our meat raw.
Supporting the infinitely DUMB is a pointless exercise. You have to assume a certain level of sophistication, especially with the web. Now we may have assumed the wrong level, and have to rethink how things are done, but we can't pander to the complete idiot. Those people will always manage to get themselves neck deep into it.
Spy satellites spend no mass on orienting themselves, they use special gyros that help alter their orientation. These are known as CMGs on the Hubble Space Telescope. Changing orbits, however, DOES require reaction mass. Something that is rarely done, I'm sure.
As to coverage, when a satellite is launched into a polar orbit (many spy satellites, if not most), you will eventually fly over EVERY SQUARE MILE of the planet earth. May take a while, but it will happen.
If you're not a masochist, don't chose Vi/Vim or Emacs, choose Pico instead. :-)
;-)
And the one true shell, bash even though I'm a tcsh guy.
Funny thing was, he probably would have won a third term had that silly constitutional amendment not been in place... at least until the economy tanked...
I have one word for you: lawsuit.
So I'm searching driving directions around Salem, MA, trying to figure out commuting routes to my new job, and I'm scrolling and scrolling and scrolling, and am almost all the way (60 miles) to my house before I realize *WTF*...
Hmm... For those of us doing some form of AJAX (when it was Javascript and IFrames) for years, this sort of application is vindication...
If you honestly don't think that Morena Baccarin, Summer Glau, Adam Baldwin or Jewel Staite can't get better jobs than flipping burgers, you seriously need to get out of the house once in a while. :-P
Especially Morena and Jewel. Hell, I'll pay them just to come sit around the house and look pretty.
Which I think was fair. About time. Every series has to die. Farscape was reaching it's pinnacle, IMHO. Ratings were slipping, even as I first started getting involved in it... The miniseries was just a wonder end to the whole thing.
Now it's not playing on SciFi at all, which Sux0rz, because there's a lot of episodes I missed.
Recent episodes of 24 aside, the real answer is driving up to your target in a Ford Taurus. Small, inconspicuous, and such a low-tech solution as to almost guarantee success.
What do you think Gravity is? A free fall at 9.8m/s^2. Doesn't change whether from the ground or midair, you're still fighting the same force.
However, the dynamic forces exerted upon the vehicle are MUCH different than if it was sitting on a solid concrete pad. Something for the computers to account for....
Simple, when the X33 composite fuel tank encountered problems with layer separation, and they went to the Al fuel tank to finish the launch demonstrator while they worked out the kinks, both projects are now mothballed. So instead of focusing on building complex composite structures of such huge sizes with rabid intensity, the technology languishes.
Hell, such technology could be put immediately to use in the normal aerospace and boating industries.
DC-X was killed because of a design failure (using only 4 legs to land?) and a subsequent crash. Full-scale development never went past the drawing board. DC-X could have been the best of both worlds, SSTO, and blunt-body reentry.
You forgot the DC-X, another great rocket program axed by budget conscious administration... :-/
Buran's problem, like the STS, was doing a lateral mount on the booster. But at least Buran put the engines in the booster, and not the orbiter, where they are completely useless and increase landing weight.
An interesting anecdote to this whole story is that in 113 flights, only one had an SSME failure that required initiating an abort sequence which was an abort-to-orbit on Atlantis IIRC circa 1993 or so.
Challenger STS mission 51L was the 25th sequential shuttle mission, not the 51st. FYI.t tle/mi ssions/missions.html>
<url:http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/shu
Challenger was Flight #25. Horrible way to celebrate an anniversary. So over 85 flights since the last accident. Pretty damn good improvement, IMHO.
Yeah, that sure has stopped RedHat and SuSE from making a buck...
All new processors are RISC because the memory bottlenext with having uniform instruction/word lengths is gone. Not having to shoehorn instructions and data into 16MB of memory or 2kb of cache has eliminated the need for the old CISC instruction packing.