I guess the Texan Nation decided the Catholic Church wasn't strict enough. Thumbscrews, The Rack, and listening to Iron Maiden will catch their students' attention better and will be far cheaper than developing an engaging and inspiring curriculum.
First thought was - WoW! Somebody wants to defeat disk caching, ECC and make life bloody difficult to boot. The best way, if you really want to do direct disk RMW operations - is to use Flash. Its fast, reasonably portable, and won't fail you if you use it properly.
You have eight fingers - choose a finger with the least identifiable features (pinky finger, perhaps?).
Leave your thumbs for the Banks and the Mob.
I'm tossing in this idea reloading SP3 may be a proper starting point.
Communications and Grammar - its quite obvious why. I wouldn't trust some with statistics, logic, nor pointy objects. Skepticism is too difficult to grade. Odds & Ends (others) is such a cop out. Basic Math & Science was a tough one to skip; counting bright objects and releasing the smoke inside of sticks seem second place to communicating how & why such activities are necessary. Canter & Siegal is enough explanation why green card lawyers shouldn't understand computers.
The final choice - manners - is one I couldn't pass even if my classmates scratched for fleas and sprouted leashes.
... but I accidentally fed it to my dog instead of his usual worm pills.
Do I have to switch my keyboard, mouse & monitor to nano-sized connectors?
13 years in the dorms -- gotta be Lazlo, running off Publisher Clearinghouse entries by the carload.
'Nuf said?
If we're THAT CLOSE to the sun, it would be interesting to see how big a solar sail would need to be for a 364.245 day parking orbit. Use the dark side of Mercury as Network Control.
First: What is the purpose of 24 hour communications? If you need SOS messaging, signal recovery, or a simple heartbeat, use the sun as the point-of-reference.
Second: A fleet of solar communications satellites could provide a solar GPS system.
Third: These satellites could use Solar Propulsion and "hover" at a fixed distance from adjacent satellites. Solar sails could serve as a foundation for power generation (focused beam) and for data reception.
Downsides: the sun is a noisy place for communications, as well as a dirty place to park objects with large surface areas.
Solar, Geothermal, Wind, Nuclear
Ehr, Isotope Decay! All they need are two wires stapled to the side of Yucca Mountain in a few years.
Patented Feature!!!
Someone with the Heart of a Poet, Soul of a Critic. We suspend our belief in movie theatres only because we, as an audience, do not have all the facts. Watching military counsel meetings, the crew's soul searching, and some redshirt #2 whining would have made the movie drag on and On And ON AND
Knock that chimp off your shoulders and get into the facts as the Director & Writers laid them out on the screen. Art is Beauty; no ugly facts here; remember to pick your brains up on your way out (use a claimcheck, or claim someone else's with a large enough tip). Reflect on these facts later and IMAGINE why things unfolded as they did (Transporter Scrambling Fields, Pike has huge respect for Kirk, Sr., all Starfleet cadets KNEW of Kirk's antics & field-of-study & willingness to approach problems in a way they respected)
Kirk didn't technically cheat. Kirk failed the test 3 times, and the first, second & third score alone would have sufficed for graduation otherwise there would never have been a fourth test. You just don't tie up a simulator and fellow cadets' time on a moronic captain wannabe. Even if he FLUNKed the fourth test, his median grade must have been high enough to justify his captaincy.
My apologies for droning on And ON AND
Dude! It's just a movie! It's like saying the Shark in Jaws is Fake. OF COURSE IT IS.
1) The Butler always does it.
2) Someone always stumbles at the most awkward moment.
3) Star Trek will have an actor named "Redshirt #1" because he doesn't hang around long enough to be pals with any of the main characters.
... Policy Wonks are Geeks with better smelling cologne.
Phew. Pretty heady stuff here.
It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.
