Nuke a gay unborn baby whale with AIDs for Jesus!

Only two more payments and it's all hers.

Are you implying that anybody who owned a Volvo would buy another?

It does take all kinds. I don't understand why they would buy the first one. Perhaps a Tercel is too fast.

What I am getting from the videos is that this test was a success but that there was indeed an engine failure and the system recovered from it successfully by throttling off the opposing engine. There was less Delta-V than expected, max altitude was lower than expected, downrange was lower than expected, and that tumble after trunk jettison and during drogue deploy looked like it would have been uncomfortable for crew.

This is the second time that SpaceX has had an engine failure and recovered from it. They get points for not killing the theoretical crew either time. There will be work to do. It's to be expected, this is rocket science.

It sounds to me like the launch engineers were rattled by the short downrange and the launch director had to rein them in.

You can accept the performance hit of a microkernel for most parts of the hardware.

Video is the exception. Which is why hybrid kernels have been the way to go for some time.

If Moore's law survives another decade we can afford to go full microkernel. As you say there are applications where it works today.

Yeah. Too be fair, it's a lot easier to plan ahead when a moth isn't raping your ear :-P

That's not creepy at all, Apple.

My first job was with a small company in 1989. They'd gone with SCO Xenix on a 286 machine (IIRC the 386 was still on the horizon at that point.) I looked briefly at BSD as a potentially less expensive and more feature rich alternative to that, but at the time the only options was to order tapes of the distribution and I didn't even know if it would work on our hardware. Even if that'd have been guaranteed, I'd still have to convince the boss to buy a tape drive to try it out. Given the fact that our immediate solution wasn't broke (even if it had cost $1200 for the base OS,) that would have been a tough sell.

Over the next couple years I worked there we looked onto potentially OS/2 and... I want to say DRM DOS? as a potentially cheaper multitasking alternative to Xenix on our systems. Even though I was nominally aware of BSD, the amount of tinkering to even try to get it working was intimidating, and we didn't have the immediate need for it.

By the mid 90's people were really starting to talk about Linux in exactly the sort of way they were NOT talking about BSD. I looked at the procedure to install it -- download a bunch of slakware install floppies off the newfangled internets (24 install floppies as I recall, which took for-fucking-ever! And I accidentally FTPed the first two in text mode. Shit!) and boot that shit up. I specifically remember finding the installer to be far less sucktastic than either the OS/2 installer or the Windows 3.1 installer that you ran shortly after pirating MS DOS (Which you typically would do even if you had a legitimate MS DOS install on your system.)

In short order, I had a working Linux system with a working C compiler, no fuss, no muss. Well some fuss -- couldn't run X11 very well on the VGA controller I had, but I was fine with a text console until I bought a computer that wasn't made out of duct tape and baling wire, that being the custom of the time. I almost immediately set up a TCP/IP network between the real computer and the baling wire computer, too, experimented with NFS, all that fun stuff. Got my system pwned several times, you know, all the usual stuff you go through to learn how to become a halfway decent Linux admin.

So yeah, for me at least it was all about accessibility. Minix was just a toy and BSD required a wizard hat and robe.

Much like the NASA EM drive, this happens when a virtual quantum burrito is created in the microwave chamber. Not only is thrust always guaranteed in the event that a burrito is in the microwave chamber, but virtual quantum burritos tend to be very loud in the EM spectrum due to quantum entanglement of the burrito particles.

Mmmm... burrito...

And sense it passed social security disability rolls have been growing by more than 1 million people per year.

Do you really think there are a million more disabled people this year vs. last? They just moved to a new scam.

Most liberal fascist try to hide it. I complement you on your honesty.

Wait a second, HURD is done?

I'm surprised he didn't include a "BSD IS DYING, NETCRAFT CONFIRMS IT" in the article.

I'll take the Bushmill's single malt slow poison. 1 small ice cube.