Our number 1 dev just quit to work on his film hobby. He was also completely self-taught, no formal education. Some people just 'have it'. Some don't, no matter how long they study.

The "plane" in "airplane" or "spaceplane" refers to the shape of the lifting body (i.e. the wing, technically the bottom of the wing). Just like your hand forms part of a geometric plane when outside that car window, so does the bottom of the wing form part of a geometric plane. It is this plane which forces the air down, hence the term "air-plane".

Since this design generates lift by pushing the air down, it is a "something-plane".

In Firefox set `media.autoplay.enabled` to FALSE (about:confg).

On Titan the view of Saturn is edge-on to the rings as Titan is in the ring plane. So the rings of Saturn would not be visible in the sky.

Seeing the artists get this wrong in the 2009 Star Trek movie is a bit forgiving, as they need to impress their audience. But on Gizmag?!? I would have expected better.

They clearly call the vehicle Experimental Wingless Space Plane IXV for that reason!

I doubt that gut flora is transmitted through breast milk.

Thanks. In fact, I have changed quite a few diapers and I'd love to change more!

Thank you, that is rather more interesting than I expected.

Where do babies get them from? Surely there is no interintestinal transfer from mom to womb.

Where did you get that from? I'd love to see a source.

The video shows that man at his absolute best. I could never be as brave as that pilot watching the flames come for him. You _think_ that you've seen brave people in movies. This was a real brave person, handling a certain-death situation with more dignity than I've ever approached a problem in my life.

If you ever wonder what "dignity" and "bravery" mean, you'll have to watch that video. We see not only humans at their absolute worst, but we also see one human at the absolute best that a human could be.

I actually think that it is important for those interested to see this video. At the very least, know your enemy. Those who are _not_ disgusted by the video were already lost before they saw it. I saw it. I cannot believe what some people will do to one another.

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This sounds like the problem right here. What was casing the kernel panics? From what you say you seem extremely competent with *NIX systems, so why didn't you find the cause of the panics?

For what it's worth, I run quite a few Debian-based systems (alright, I'll say it: Ubuntu Server) both on real hardware (commodity and a Dell PowerEdge) and also in AWS (virtual machines in the cloud). I cannot remember my last kernel panic, it has been _years_ since I've seen that.

Note that Ubuntu is still using upstart, so I have never evaluated systemd. I'm not addressing systemd in this post, rather, I'm addressing your oops.

A lot of that has to do with Ebay policy. I mentioned this recently in another post, here's a copy-paste:

Recently I ordered two computer mice for my daughters:
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Real-Fi...

When they didn't arrive after two months, I contacted the seller and he sent two more. When one of _those_ didn't work he sent a _fifth_ mouse! This was two days before the claims for the unreceived mice was to expire in my favour (i.e. a full refund). I contacted Ebay and requested them not to close the issue in two days, as I was still waiting for the replacement mouse. Within five minutes (not two days) the issue was closed in my favour and I got an automatic refund that I neither wanted nor deserved. The poor seller sent _five_ mice and didn't get any of his money. He probably thinks that I'm a scammer as well, when the issue is that Ebay didn't even read my mail asking them to extend his deadline.

I used to order breakfast at the same restaurant every morning on my way to work, pretty much the same dish each time. One day I'm super late and just as I arrive the waitress puts down a dish for me to eat. She mentions that it's not _exactly_ how I like it but it's close, and the guy who ordered it will wait as he's in less of a hurry than I am.

That waitress always got a good tip, but on that particular day she made us both happy. I don't know how it affected the tip from the guy who order the food, but I made up for that with my tip!