I prefer functional programming languages, but I make my living with object oriented ones.

Now, a Chinese comapny, that makes perfect sense.

Why would a Japanese bank be named Wiener?

Oh.

Except that nobody that has rockets is going to give the Mars One assholes one of them. Yeah, I know they expect SpaceX to give them a bunch of Falcon Heavys, but why would Elon Musk want to have his name attached to something that is certainly going to kill people? SpaceX already has a NASA contract to put people in orbit, so they will be focusing on that.

The reason they are assholes is because they know they literally have no chance of literally getting off the ground. It is just a way to suck money out of hopeful people. There is no way they will get enough money to buy a single super heavy lift rocket, let alone dozens of them.

To bring it back on topic:

DiSKiLLeR: Maybe it means he is against killing?

Blimps would be so sweet. Like steampunk on Venus.

Thought he 200mph winds might be a problem. Though are they not as fast at very high altitudes?

I don't think you have ever looked at what Venus' atmosphere is made of. It is hot, not because of how close tot he Sun it is, but because of how thick the atmosphere is. More than 100x denser than on Earth. 200mph winds blow across the planet constantly. The average temperature is hot enough to melt lead. The only probe to ever attempt to land on Venus melted in a short amount of time. A day is actually longer than a year on Venus, which just compounds the problems.

Mars is a picnic compared to Venus.

Correction, we have not suspected for many years... I was confusing Ganymede with Europa. Doh!

Anyhow, I am just pissed off that when NASA says "Might", everyone jumps up and down and says "Confirmed for Truth!"

No wonder so many people mistrust scientists. They should mistrust lazy and corrupt journalists instead.

Nasa's report says "Suggets". The evidence is good as we have suspected for many years, but can these popsci article writers can't even be bothered to check the sources and just make up stuff.

I am sure when IFLS picks this up, they will report that not only is there an ocean but life is confirmed too.

Free and Open Source... unless you make money, then fuck you.

If it is not broke, fix it until it is.

Is this what keeps projects alive?

At least unit tests are easy on non-functional programs.

They use mainly Windows and have iPads. I don't like web-based tools...

Well, why not? If you want to cover that kind of diversity in platforms, you are going to be using a web tool...

Also, an SSD is several orders of magnitude cheaper than RAM, and makes regular disk access much faster. So for cost-benefit analysis, upgrade to SSD before trying to get a huge amount of RAM.