The very first, excruciatingly-painful, extreme Usenet spamming was the "The End of the World is Coming!" by some Jesus-freak. Someone generated cancels for it, and then sent out a message "The End of the World has been Cancelled."
Clarence Thomas IV, IIRC. It was right after
yet another California earthquake.
I work for an insurance company, running a policy administration application running under Windows. We currently administer approximately 150,000 policies...
150K, so? It shouldn't take a mainframe to handle that in the fist place. See if a Windows
based system can handle 150,000,000.
There has to be a good reason for this design choice, but I cannot see it. Why not have the foam sandwiched between two coaxial metal cylinders, rather than being sprayed onto one? Then the problem with the falling pieces would vanish.
Money and weight (really the same thing for spacecraft).
What about other rockets that use cryo-fuel? Do they have thermo insulator as an outer layer? I can't be positive, I've never touched a rocket, but they seem to have metal skins...
You can often see large chunks of ice falling away from rockets during lauch (check out old footage of Saturn V's).
Anyone who has had both will tell you cable is faster and personally I think its more reliable too.
The problem with DSL is quality can very greatly in the same service area. I've been with three DSL providers: one was fair (occasional outages, they at least tried to fix problems), one was horrible, and one is great (my current provider).
FWIW, I average about 1400 kbps and have had no outages lasting more than an hour (and only one of those) in almost 2 years.
Am I the only one who thinks Ender's
Game is overrated? I remember reading it because everyone was saying how great it was and being somewhat disappointed (it was OK, but hardly a classic IMHO).
The black box tape has data for at least 14 seconds after telemetry was lost (in the FA). I believe that radio is lost during reentry.
The data recorder probably kept recording after the comm systems were damaged. Ideally communications can be maintained during reantry (though frequent drops are common).
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Clarence Thomas IV, IIRC. It was right after yet another California earthquake.
...and sends it to Microsoft
No kidding. You could crash things into it and set it on fire and it was still usable!
I'm going to patent floating point math.
Plus it lasted something like 3 years.
Microvision: I actually had one of those.
I read it and it sucks.
So does it actually work if almost all of the links to litigious bastards are located on the same web site?
NOWouldn't it be better if people started adding them to the blogs and personal or business sites?
YES20 years programming C++
(FWIW, I actually 15 years of C++)
That whole earth settled by a lost tribe bit was the stupidest part of a dumb series.
It's got to be better than Ineffective XML
150K, so? It shouldn't take a mainframe to handle that in the fist place. See if a Windows based system can handle 150,000,000.
The stability of Microsoft combined with the elegance of COBOL.
In other words, Windows' security is broken.
"Bite my corrugated gold foil in an elastic matrix ass"
If there was, he'd be in the deepest pit of hell.
Money and weight (really the same thing for spacecraft).
What about other rockets that use cryo-fuel? Do they have thermo insulator as an outer layer? I can't be positive, I've never touched a rocket, but they seem to have metal skins...You can often see large chunks of ice falling away from rockets during lauch (check out old footage of Saturn V's).
Typicla Radio Shack service...
I dunno... I used to have acces to Gartner's stuff and I rarely saw anything worth paying any sort of real money for.
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The problem with DSL is quality can very greatly in the same service area. I've been with three DSL providers: one was fair (occasional outages, they at least tried to fix problems), one was horrible, and one is great (my current provider). FWIW, I average about 1400 kbps and have had no outages lasting more than an hour (and only one of those) in almost 2 years.
Am I the only one who thinks Ender's Game is overrated? I remember reading it because everyone was saying how great it was and being somewhat disappointed (it was OK, but hardly a classic IMHO).
I'm starting to see reruns.
The data recorder probably kept recording after the comm systems were damaged. Ideally communications can be maintained during reantry (though frequent drops are common).
It's not really a black box like those found on airliners. It's simply a data recorder lucky enough to survive relatively intact.
BTW, the telemetry sent by the shuttle, in theory, provides more information than a black box.