The moon will also be knocked out of it's orbit, sending the doomed crew of British and American astronauts living at Moonbase Alpha hurtling through space and time, only to suffer horrible deaths at the hands of television executives a scant 48 episodes later.
I expect what they mean by "decaying" is that the people who know how to do this analysis are dead and/or retiring.
It's not a high-demand skill, after all (thankfully).
So this material is likely to be somewhat stable at room temperatures & pressures because it's in a metastable state. But I'm thinking that nitroglycerin also falls into that category...
an Energy Dome from DEVO.
Would have saved them all that construction time and helped in the fight against bad spuds.
Got a real hot babe going thru the scanner here.
- TSA Perv
Or, at least that has been my experience.
So, make your firm attractive to a buyer, and make sure you get publicity so that you're known in the industry, and maybe... someone will make you an offer.
Chip H.
The CEOs of AT&T, Verizon, et.al. saw what happened to the former General Motors chairman, and would rather keep their jobs, thank you very much.
Chip H.
Another vote for Deutsches Museum. Awesome place - easily a two day trip by itself.
I have a photo of me standing inside the core of a CRAY-1, and another standing next to the operator console of a System 360.
Check their operating times before going -- if I recall correctly, they tend to close on religious holidays (ehh, Bavaria!)
Chip H.
They'll change in a heartbeat -- anything
Chip H.
sounds like. Moderate resolution, highly portable, not super expensive.
Chip H.
Hardware has significantly smaller margins than software, especially for commodity hardware like their AMD-powered servers.
Software, OTOH, can have amazing margins.
Chip H.
before Oracle closes it because of low margins.
Nevermind the obvious synergies and benefits you get from controlling the entire stack -- from CPU to system software to applications. See: APPLE
Chip H.
I used to write software that ran on equipment that had to pass UL 1069 (Nurse Call equipment). One of the tests is a temperature test -- the server had to operate normally at elevated temperatures. This was to simulate a server forgotten in a linen closet, with it's cooling system blocked by 3 years of dust & lint.
We tested every major brand on the market, and IBM eServers were the only ones that didn't start acting "strange" after a while. In our usage, "strange" was a significantly worse failure mode than "broke outright".
Chip H.
There is a solution to USAF's lack of ability to retain technical knowledge, and that's to use the Warrant Officer ranks that got dropped back in the 1950's. These not-quite-officers were supposed to be technical experts in their field, and were not in the chain of command.
The other thing, which I pointed out back in the CyberWarfare thread, was that Airmen get promoted by passing skill tests. The tests get prepared far in advance, which means what you're being tested on is ancient history, so far as technical knowledge is concerned. Should be easy to pass, right? Except it's probably stuff you haven't worked with for a year or more, so you aren't going to do so well.
The City of Raleigh has been partnered with Cree for over a year in rolling out LED lighting for parking structures and streets.
http://www.cree.com/press/press_detail.asp?i=1171295242023
Chip H.
Chemist who falls in acid is absorbed in work.
