Comment Re:Repeat Customers? (Score 1) 339
Purchasing price probably dropped a bit. Good time to get a deal.
Purchasing price probably dropped a bit. Good time to get a deal.
And the counterexample to that is the TU-144 crash in Paris, the aircraft did not rebound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpPaaP1IIe8
Aeroflot's an airline, not an aircraft manufacturer. Aeroflot flies mostly Boeing and Airbus today.
I believe they were trying to show off, and here's why I think that. One of the news sites had a video (looked like Google Earth) showing where the plane took off, and where it crashed. The mountain it crashed into is this really isolated and abrupt thing sticking way up out of lower elevation terrain. It was very clear from that imagery that the plane took off and made a bee line for those scenic mountains for impressive views for those on board. I think the pilot tried to do a close fly by and did not realize just how steep that mountain was (it is practically vertical where the plane impacted).
So it's a repeat of the Italian captain driving his cruise ship onto a reef.
Do you realize that airport security screening was run by private companies prior to 9/11 and the creation of the TSA? It's been incredibly worse under government control.
Not true. Usually they need photographic evidence of both your car and your face.
Hey, we can finally get IPv6 adopted everywhere now that the entertainment mafiaas will lobby for every system to have a unique address.
If I had the money to bid on a ship, I'd prefer the USS Iowa on the other end of that row.
Yes, and then they switched on anti-ice and got all their sensors back. At the time of the crash, the plane was operating correctly (though in alternate law without stall protection due to the earlier airspeed disagree).
As a citizen who pays taxes and helped fund this project, I say it does have value beyond scrap, in the form of a museum exhibit.
The Navy's tried to sell it as a museum ship for the last six years. Nobody wants it.
Then isn't this all just another example of "measuring the object alters the object"? Can I lie about my measurement?
You really have no idea what you are talking about do you? Find one significant program where CS is a separate department.
Sure. From the 2010 US News rankings of Computer Science:
1. Carnegie Mellon. Separate CS and ECE.
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Combined EECS. Separate CSAIL.
1. Stanford. Separate CS and EE.
1. UC Berkely. Combined EECS. Administratively split into separate EE and CS divisions.
5. Cornell. Separate CS and ECE.
5. UIUC. Separate CS and ECE.
7. Washington. Separate CSE and EE.
8. Princeton. Separate CS and EE.
8. UT Austin. Separate CS and ECE.
10. Georgia Tech. Separate CS and ECE.
Need I continue, or is this enough evidence that maybe I do know what I'm talking about and that you should be quiet for a while?
A lot of what you rattled off is purchased by faculty with their own research funds acquired by winning grants.
Instructional labs are going away because students have personal laptops instead, but even when they were around, most of the equipment in them was donated by major companies like Intel.
If the necessary backend infrastructure is for research, then research funds pay to keep it operating, including staffing. If it's not for research, then let the campus run it.
and this is where i have to ask what is the core competency of a university?
Gets 18-year-olds out of their parents' houses.
Also beer pong.
If you want people that write python, perl, and real code, then you should be recruiting CS grads, not IT grads. IT is a soft business degree.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
