Comment Re:New product (Score 1) 342
This is actually a little-known third experiment that's part of the launches. They're perfecting the material to make Elon Musk's super-villain lair out of.
This is actually a little-known third experiment that's part of the launches. They're perfecting the material to make Elon Musk's super-villain lair out of.
All the engines on the Falcon 9 (and just about every other multiengine* rocket stage) are fed from the same propellant and oxidizer tanks. Giving them separate tankage just adds weight and plumbing complexity.
In the Falcon Heavy, there is a cross-feed mechanism from the outrigger 9s to the core so that the core can keep burning when the outriggers jettison (saving weight).
*(except multiengine solids, where the engine is the fuel tank.)
DC-X also did it, several times -- but then DC-X wasn't trying to make even a fraction of orbit, it was proving the vertical takeoff and landing principle. Its engines (modified Pratt & Whitney RL-10s) could be more deeply throttled than the Falcon's Merlin, and it (the DC-X) was built fairly heavy to start with, since was designed as a test vehicle rather than a launcher (fully-fueled the legs couldn't hold its weight, it needed a support structure for takeoff -- and in an abort (happened once) it had to hover until it had burned off enough fuel to land).
Since then a number of small-company-built test vehicles have done the same, although not (afaik) to the tens of thousands of feet altitudes that the latter DC-X flights made.
One would think that if they didn't know that the shuttle's boosters are made of inch-or-more-thick steel, while the Falcon's tanks are millimeter thick aluminum-lithium. And that the booster splashdown still tended to leave the boosters slightly out of round (which contributed to the problem Challenger had).
The extra fuel almost certainly weighs less than the necessary parachutes would.
Movie-Plot Threat Contest entries.
as have Canadians.
Disqus, and the comment section at The Atlantic.
You don't like it, then change the law. Don't go crying because the cop did their job.
In a sane society, it is the job of a cop to use the law as a tool to keep the peace and protect people's rights, not to enforce every minor idiotic whim of those mentally and morally twisted enough to secure for themselves a place in the legislature. Separation of powers has a purpose.
And what gives you the prerogative to be the freeloader? Obviously not everyone can be.
But I want everyone to be a "freeloader". I want everyone to block ads, at least ads-as-they-are-now, intrusive and tracking. Then when the system falls apart we can replace it with something better. (And almost anything would be better. Perhaps a combination of non-intrusive and non-tracking sponsorships along with a fee charged every ISP and distributed to content creators via statistics sampled from a set of volunteers, a la the Nielsen ratings.)
...it's about the fact that culturally we (usually) are comfortable about men being pushy about their salary, while women tend to be treated negatively if they do the same thing.
Or perhaps because we generally socialize men to be more assertive from childhood, when women attempt to negotiate they have less experience and do a poorer job. (And then there's the un-PC possibility that men are, on average, more assertive for biological reasons that no amount of socialization will change.)
Negotiating is a subtle skill and I'm not convinced that we can say that two people who are both attempting it are "doing the same thing" without very careful observation.
And then the one pilot pulls the breaker on the monitoring/remote control system. So the breakers are made non-pullable. And then, oops, an electrical short brings down the aircraft, because the pilot couldn't pull the breaker...
If the code can be executed, regardless of how obscure the keystrokes are to trigger it, then it's a potential security attack vector.
Easter eggs are supposed to be harmless. Essentially stealing 15% on a car purchase doesn't meet my criteria for harmless.
By "done correctly" you mean going through the entire non-easter-egg review and test cycle... in other words, when not an easter egg at all.
Sure, but BMW, Audi and Porsche's workers aren't adding easter eggs to the cars during their 6 weeks of vacation. They're actually resting.
You will have many recoverable tape errors.