Anyone who refers to Star Trek by a three letter acronym is just plain not the target audience.

(Unless, perhaps, it's TRO, for "The Real One")

Star Trek and its spinoffs have a minimal amount in common.

hawk

If we look at jet aircraft, wear depends on the airframe and the engines, and the airframe seems to be the number of pressurize/depressurize cycles as well as the running hours. Engines get swapped out routinely but when the airframe has enough stress it's time to retire the aircraft lest it suffer catastrophic failure. Rockets are different in scale (much greater stresses) but we can expect the failure points due to age to be those two, with the addition of one main rocket-specific failure point: cryogenic tanks.

How long each will be reliable can be established using ground-based environmental testing. Nobody has the numbers for Falcon 9R yet.

Weight vs. reusable life will become a design decision in rocket design.

Apple has a patent on chips that are rectangular.

>Seriously. I just went through a stack of 5 Seagate
>HDDs, from different customers, with a sledge
>hammer. They all died with S.M.A.R.T. failures.

I've got to admire a firmware that can report

Error 215: Struck with sledge hammer.

hawk

That's why modern drives use helium instead of protons . . .

That sequel went straight to video. Other than watching him become Darth Squeaky after it got torpedoed, there was really nothing worth watching.

hawk

>Don't forget the original Hack on which Nethack is based - (basically) the same game, but on ASCII terminals (yes, I'm that old).

"tiles" is not nethack . . .

*proper* nethack is ascii only.

It was too easy to escape a two-doored shop in hack . . .

(and to this day, the "graphical" variants on nethack are gaming the ascii-based underpinnings)

hawk

Yeah, but you fell for a troll.

"one of the . . ."

who would fall for that???

nethack is the *only* game that *matters*

hawk

Not only that, but as the probe has approached, it discovered . . .

They're right. That's no planet . . . it's a fully armed battle station!

Get us out of here . . .

Unfortunately, the minimal fuel reserves are no match for a tractor beams, and our little friends are going to die . . .

hawk

machines are more like people than we thought . . .

next, someone needs to write, Of iPod Bondage.

hawk

I had a couple of those, first a 35" or 45" sony, iirc and then my father in law's 55" (?) monster.

Especially on the first one, the hardware handled an insufficient number of simultaneous colors (think back to 8 bit video cards).

So watching football, most of the colors would get used on the first couple of lines. After that, it needed to use the nearest available green for any more it hit. So I would end up with huge lines separating patches of monochromatic green, looking like a video game rather than a real picture.

(still a good enough picture that my cat would sit and watch, wanting to pounce one of the players . . .)

Much better on the later television, but it had a 700 line screen, so it had to extrapolate from the 450 or so out of the 525 that are actually broadcast with picture, and the jaggies were more pronounced than the mere color artifacts . . .

hawk

>I must say TFA certainly doesn't reach qualities to be posted on slashdot.

>The approver must have been drunk or what

You must be new here . . .

hawk, who doesn't see the inconsistency

That was tried.

The judge ordered the bailiff to stamp the plaintiffs, which led to dismissal.

hawk, esq.

>If it came to that, youâ(TM)d have to appoint an attorney to stand for the critterâ(TM)s interests who would argue
>diminished capacity and no ability for form mens rea.

Nah, that's for homo sapiens..

For other primates, you appoint a a babboon to argue mens rheus.

(this is complicated lawyer stuff. Don't try it at home!)

And in related news, Disney is again making a fortune from rentals of The Monkey's Uncle.

hawk, esq.