Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Ironically that is sort-of what's happening with JWST
Original plan was for a 6.5M single mirror launched on an Ariane5 with a specially widened fairing.
But the Great American Space Observatory couldn't be launched on a CESM rocket
So an insanely complex folding mirror design was created which would fit on an Atlas
This design was so late and expensive they needed CESM partners who contributed in the form of a free Ariane5 launch
Hubble's mirror and a big chunk of the bus sized main body will survive rentry and you really wouldn't want it to land on you.
There was a plan to use the Shuttle to either boost it to a parking orbit or add a motor to allow a controlled rentry - but the shuttle got canned before that could happen.
Current plan is to point out that it is in an orbit which barely touches florida and so can't land on anybody imortant
Always thought it was one of the best looking airliners.
Beautiful industrial design from the days when the drawing board won out over CFD
The high cockpit, hump and wind dihedral are amazing
The A380, for all its efficiency, looks like Airbus hired all the redundant Fiat Multipla designers
There is a podcast with an SR71 pilot where he describes orbiting over Cuba and being asked to change altitude by ATC.
He pointed out that he was at 60,000ft (IIRC) and asked WTF they thought might be in his way?
He then saw a concorde go by and thought of all the passengers sitting in their shirt sleeves sipping champagne while he was in a space suit sipping warm water through a straw.
Do a CS degree, be careful to choose all the course options that involve no actual programming. Be the one on the team-project that never turns up and never does any work. Scrape through with a 'C' average by copying homework and just graduate.
Then apply for every advanced algorithms, we really want math PhD, C++ job.
Pseudocode is useful if you are looking for somebody to do algorithms rather than just grind out code in language X.
I also try and avoid standard "rebalance a tree" type standard algorithms, I'm not interested in how long ago you revised from SICP - I try and find things in the work we are doing.
But not asking any write code questions at all? You would be amazed at the number of people with a CS degree that can't program fizz-buzz
Specifically Church of Satan polices the official separation of church and state in the USA.
So when a city puts up ten commandments or religious statues on government property they campaign to put up equal statues of Satan.
TLDR - they are atheist political campaigner good-guys (tm)
>those "known to cause cancer" signs haven't actually changed anything here in California.
Yes they have, they made things less safe.
I see the sign on the door, assuming it means you have white board cleaner or printer toner - and I realize I'm looking at a row of open anodizing baths.
It's like labelling everything in the store as poisonous and wondering why the kid drank the weed killer
So that's a government agency after presumably getting a precedent set in a court case.
Was this CISCO deliberately bricking gear by overwriting a hack, or was the boot process badly implemented?
Microsoft were sending out DCMA demands to sites hosting LibreOffice, they claimed it was a mistake - but would they be allowed to brick my PC if a Windows update detected some non-Microsoft software called xxxOffice?
>Not just cashing out of your market account, but getting the money to somewhere the SEC can't touch it anywhere in the world.
Tesla is the most shorted stock in the market. There are something like $20Bn in short positions - hiding your $1M in gains from that would be trivial. Probably easier than washing the fractional bitcoin from these small "investors"
But if they were running ads for the hogwarts language university in alabama that showed up when parents searched for Cambridge+University then they would seem to have a reasonable gripe that someone is cashing in.
There are a number of language schools here, presumably aimed at parents in Asia, named things like, "Oxford college English royal school"
Do we even know the rules for visiting the eu next year?
I know exactly what I had to say when visiting the USA for a business trip under visa waiver. Is there a visa waiver scheme for the eu, is there a visa for all these lorry drivers or do they need to stop walf way across and hand the keys to an eu driver?
Over here on the left pond I think you should get an insurance discount for manual
Only enthusiast drivers (and ex-pats) have it. So it filters out idiots driving their SUV's while drinking their starbucks, checking their phones and belting their kids.
It's impossible for the average local to steal.
The monopolies people would have a heart attack
Generally IP deals for something like ARM already have clauses for this. So if Apple buys ARM, Samsung get to keep their current licenses for ever - for free. Otherwise nobody would ever buy into any platform with the risk that it could be bought by a competitor
Everyone benefits from ARM being something of an industry standard, you get cheaper tools and cheaper more experienced people than if ARM was an internal product of company X.
Ironically no. One of the problems with ARM's business model is that you have to keep the IP license cost at 0.00001$ below what it would cost customers to just invent their own instruction set or switch to something like RISC-V. Most of Apple's secret sauce is in making the SOC and it's own based-on-ARM cores. Buying ARM (even if it could) to save on the license fee wouldn't be worth it.
Ok so I'm old enough to remember VAX and I still know the ESC codes for an RM380Z
But isn't the whole point of a cloud service that it's all done for you?
You pay Microsoft $$$$ and office365 does everything, the only extra cost being the alcohol and pyschotherapy if you have to use Sharepoint
Why do you have to $$$M for somebody to organise using cloud services ?
>prices will fall
Except that in response to Japan will tariff Korean products so Korea will respond by blocking Japanese products and so you'll have less choice and higher prices in each country
But this is totally Trump style electioneering. S Korea has been stirring up anti-japan rhetoric for a while to boost nationalist politicians
