Incidentally, one of the best "documentaries" of our work towards the moon is HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon." After watching that I picked up a couple of books, including "Apollo", which have an incredible amount of detail about the whole process.
For example, the shear complexity of the Saturn V engines. The thing looks like just a big simple rocket but these suckers are incredibly complex and that they worked at all is amazing.
But the most frustrating aspect is having no communication with customers.
Even worse are the comments from brainless (l)users who either didn't bother to read the help (which pops up automatically the first time you launch the app) or fail to even spend 5 seconds exploring the buttons before commenting about how some feature you advertised is missing and the app doesn't work so "don't buy it" when the (bleeping) button is RIGHT (bleeping) there on the first (bleeping) screen and you have no way to reply to the comment and say "here it is dumbass" so people aren't misled into thinking your app is broken.
Sorry for the run-on sentence. Obviously this aspect of the comment system is quite frustrating.
I don't believe there was a screw up of computer guidance in Apollo 11. Armstrong landed way off-target because there were large boulders in the way that weren't accounted for properly in the survey photos. This is why they used up almost all of their descent fuel.
So I wonder how they are planning on taxing ME even more. A Federal Internet tax maybe? How about a "work-at-home" tax for income-earners who do not commute?
But DO YOUR RESEARCH! You have to be at least a little picky about what kind of girlfriend to get, or you could end up with Pirates of the Burning Pee.
The only major downside is there is no "decompression" on the way home. I leave the "office" and ten seconds later I'm getting kids and bills thrown at me.
On other hand, I built this so I could "stop off" at the bar on the "way home".
Exactly. We get those 1-star "reviews" from people who can't be bothered to read the in-store documentation, the in-app help, or even be bothered to just experiment with the app for 5 seconds before claiming a certain advertised feature is missing and therefore we are outright lying. I would love to reply to those and say "you are either too dumb to use this app or are 10, go away" and revoke their "review".
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I bet the RIDES in those malls are freakin' AWESOME!!
I expected to see Kerplakistan in that list.
Ah yes I had forgotten about that.
Incidentally, one of the best "documentaries" of our work towards the moon is HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon." After watching that I picked up a couple of books, including "Apollo", which have an incredible amount of detail about the whole process.
For example, the shear complexity of the Saturn V engines. The thing looks like just a big simple rocket but these suckers are incredibly complex and that they worked at all is amazing.
But the most frustrating aspect is having no communication with customers.
Even worse are the comments from brainless (l)users who either didn't bother to read the help (which pops up automatically the first time you launch the app) or fail to even spend 5 seconds exploring the buttons before commenting about how some feature you advertised is missing and the app doesn't work so "don't buy it" when the (bleeping) button is RIGHT (bleeping) there on the first (bleeping) screen and you have no way to reply to the comment and say "here it is dumbass" so people aren't misled into thinking your app is broken.
Sorry for the run-on sentence. Obviously this aspect of the comment system is quite frustrating.
I don't believe there was a screw up of computer guidance in Apollo 11. Armstrong landed way off-target because there were large boulders in the way that weren't accounted for properly in the survey photos. This is why they used up almost all of their descent fuel.
Our trip to Mars would probably include some measure of space madness...
Then I hope they pack enough ice-cream bars!
Says the one who can't use the proper from of 'their'.
Says the one who's sentence doesn't parse.
I wasn't referring to PDF of course. Kindle supports several other formats you can just drop on when it's connected via USB.
It's a good thing the Kindle supports several DRM-free formats as well, then, huh?
The OP said YOUR eBooks go down with it, which is just wrong. That's different than not being able to buy new books.
Books also don't mysteriously vanish when the publisher goes out of business.
But if Amazon's DRM servers ever go down, all your eBooks go with it!
FUD. If Amazon's servers go down, the books that you have on your device will continue to work fine (until the device dies of course).
However, nobody is forcing you to buy books from Amazon. I found hundreds of books in plain text format for my wife's kindle by alternate means.
So I wonder how they are planning on taxing ME even more. A Federal Internet tax maybe? How about a "work-at-home" tax for income-earners who do not commute?
The "good stuff"? You mean like "frost-brewed" Coors Light? Or "tripple-hopped" Miller Light? Or "beechwood-aged" Bud Light?
Duhhhhhhh. What?
But DO YOUR RESEARCH! You have to be at least a little picky about what kind of girlfriend to get, or you could end up with Pirates of the Burning Pee.
(sorry - not enough coffee)
Working from home has its advantages.
The only major downside is there is no "decompression" on the way home. I leave the "office" and ten seconds later I'm getting kids and bills thrown at me.
On other hand, I built this so I could "stop off" at the bar on the "way home".
Exactly. We get those 1-star "reviews" from people who can't be bothered to read the in-store documentation, the in-app help, or even be bothered to just experiment with the app for 5 seconds before claiming a certain advertised feature is missing and therefore we are outright lying. I would love to reply to those and say "you are either too dumb to use this app or are 10, go away" and revoke their "review".
I've never used twitter...
Sounds like you need to get the hell out of CA. I really can't imagine why anyone would willingly live there.
You're definitely not a "Great American" if you disagree with Bush, that's for sure.
I don't think it was COFFEE he was ingesting.
Interesting that "Belgium" wasn't in the list.
The irony of course is it was our nukes that CAUSED said horny tentacles in the first place.
Which makes it sound a bit more reasonable.
How is holding developers to a standard above what is required of NASA, "more reasonable"?
Or Apple for that matter.
A bot would be a nice change from the usual... http://www.yardwear.net/blog/content/binary/t-shirt_10.jpg
I didn't think Stallman wasted time in chatrooms.