Comment The end of an era... (Score 1) 1521
... or is that "error"?
Whichever, thanks and good luck.
Comment Re:"Civilian" Spacecraft? (Score 1) 178
I concur that the design was compromised by military requirements, and that they flew some military/secret missions.
This doesn't change the fact that the orbiters were owned & operated by NASA.
By your argument, you might as well claim that due to the involvement of von Braun and others, the Saturn 5 was a Nazi rocket ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law )
Comment Re:"Civilian" Spacecraft? (Score 2) 178
Many thanks for your kind words.
By the way, there should be a comma after "point".
Comment Actually... (Score 2) 178
...Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and General Dynamics are commercial enterprises, which happen to have lots of contracts with both military and civilian agencies of the USA and other governments.
Last time I looked, NASA was one of those civilian USA government agencies...
Put it this way - when was the last time you could buy shares in NASA (paying taxes doesn't count)?
Comment "Civilian" Spacecraft? (Score 1) 178
Surely NASA is a "civilian" space agency, and the shuttle therefore a civilian craft?
Perhaps the correct term should be "non-governmental"...
Submission + - Study: Fair use drives large part of US economy (computerworld.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "Industries that rely on fair use exceptions to U.S. copyright law have weathered the recent slow economy better than other businesses, according to a new study released by a tech trade group. The fair use industries, including consumer device makers, software developers, search engines and news organizations, had US$4.5 trillion in revenue in 2009, up from $3.4 trillion in 2002, according to the study, commissioned by the Computer and Communications Industry (CCIA) Association. Fair use businesses make up about 17 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, according to the study. The study shows the importance of fair use exceptions in copyright law, said Ed Black, CCIA's president and CEO."
Comment Re:Translation (Score 2) 332
Not a new player, just a firmware tweak to the cheapest single-layer bluray-type drive mechanism they can source.
Likewise, no new pressing plants - any existing plant that can press a single-layer BluRay disk will be able to press these...
Comment Yeah, that'll work.. (Score 3) 76
Comment Re:Deja Vu (Score 1) 274
Yeah, let's see where this ends...
Comment No VT on E4400 (Score 1) 66
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_2/Intel-Core%202%20Duo%20E4400%20HH80557PG0412M%20(BX80557E4400).html
EM64T, SSE 1, 2 & 3, but no VT.
Seems like you're SOL...
EM64T, SSE 1, 2 & 3, but no VT.
Seems like you're SOL...
Comment Actually... (Score 1) 84
...it sounds like a fast version of using a sun-bed.
Comment Simple answer: No. (Score 3, Informative) 84
FTFA:
The duration of its individual pulses is incredibly short – a few millionths of a billionth of a second. That’s still long enough to cause its subjects to vaporize , but that doesn’t happen until after their pictures have been snapped.
OK, this was in the second paragraph, but even so...
Comment This man should be promoted! (Score 1) 371
"The best way of stopping any liaison getting too heavy was to shag somebody else. It's amazing how women don't like you going to bed with someone else," said the officer...
"Captain Obvious" is clearly insufficient rank for this officer - for an insight of that magnitude, he should be at least a Colonel.
Comment Re:OP Doesn't Have A Clue (Score 1) 378
Actually, the OP *does* have a clue.
The reported justification for WebP is to reduce "latency" not "bandwidth use".
Adding CSS3 Support To IE 6, 7 and 8 With CSS3 Pie 142
rsk writes "Internet Explorer 6, 7 and to some extent 8 have been the bane of every CSS-loving web developer for years. With the spreading adoption of CSS3's fancier rendering effects, like rounded edges, drop shadows and linear gradients, the frustration of needing to deal with IE compatibility is growing. 327 Creative's Jason Johnston has created the CSS3 Pie library to address this. CSS3 Pie adds support for CSS3's most popular rendering techniques to Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 by way of the IE-only CSS property 'behavior.' CSS3 Pie is open sourced under the Apache 2 license and can be accessed from its github repository."
