The only consideration that Spacex's Dragon has as a compelling advantage is if it can be safely operational with a two year lead over Boeing or Dream Chaser. If that's the case, they should get the contract, tough titties to Sierra Nevada. The damned Russians makes this a compelling priority. Otherwise, give it to Dream Chaser, and tough titties to SpaceX. Boeing, unfortunately, is going to get the next available slot, because it has tons more experience than either competitor, and it has way more politicians in their pocket.

It is even worse than that: They were refilled in Utah. That means for refilling, they had to be transported overland for huge distances - twice!

I'm thinking you place two current monitors side by side, then slap a strip of OLED tape down the seam. With a small matter of programming, and a few photo transistors on the back side, it could be self calibrating and self aligning. As far as the OS goes, it would just be another tall thin monitor.

I doubt there's much for you to worry about this. The research only noted the correlation, not that the loss of smell was itself the cause or contributing factor. Your sense of taste may have been more directly damaged by the treatments, instead of being an indicator that your body is failing. Even if it was, the fact that it recovered over time is further evidence that your damaged metabolic processes have returned.

OTOH, IANAD. HTH. HAND.

Just because the 1%ers have money doesn't mean they're honest. And the bank is run by people who understand this about themselves.

So you've obviously lost your sense of taste. How long do you suppose you've got to live? :-)

It didn't say "cause", it was noted as a correlation. Two different things.

That's particularly tricky with keyboards. I still remember booting a computer with no keyboard, and a BIOS error message telling me "Keyboard not detected. Press F1 to continue."

They are concerned about it because it gives them a reason for existence.

Imagine the USA if it went isolationist before WWI: Almost no crime, no terrorism, no military-industrial complex, no welfare-state, no military bases all over the world... and politicians would have almost no power compared to what they have today. That would be a nightmare for any politician, "social reformer" and social worker. They would practicably be out of their collective jobs.

All governments spy on each other, and they have since the invention of espionage. And they all know they all spy on each other, too. They just need to exercise the good sense to not get publicly caught. Not getting caught is getting harder in the digital age, as everyone from airports, customs, trucking, retail, and city infrastructure is beefing up their security. They may suck at it, but it makes hiding invisibly that much harder.

That's all pretty much a non-argument. Live tile content can be turned on or off by application, or live tiles can be completely disabled. So if a business wants to turn off live tiles for Twitter, they can send out a Group Policy Object to disable live tiles on the Twitter app. They could also add custom live tiles for the corporate share price, company newsletter, web server status, or whatever they want. Don't worry about them.

And as far as I'm concerned, live tiles have never been an issue with Windows 8. I turned off a few I didn't want, but that's only because I hate the distraction of blinky flashy things when I'm looking for something else. But tor the most part they're ignorable. As for the maligned start screen, it simply isn't much different from the Windows 7 start menu button, although it needs the tree-structure metaphor returned as that's how people group their apps.

No, the problems with Windows 8 were the "charms" and the "gestures". With a mouse or on a trackpad they are unintuitive, difficult to control, difficult to remember, difficult to discover, and almost impossible to activate. And that's coming from someone who loves his Surface Pro!

On a Surface or phone, Windows 8's UI is mostly harmless because the interface take place where the hands and fingers are already located. But they are an overflowing truckload of stinking horseshit on everything else. I'm unaware of any big corporate American business that ever installed it on their desktops (it crept in on a few Surface tablets and Windows phones, but no sysadmin was stupid enough to roll it out to the desktop.)

Microsoft learned several big lessons from the spanking they took on Windows 8, but the biggest is "listen to your corporate beta testers. If they tell you it's shit, IT'S SHIT. AND YOU DO NOT ROLL OUT SHIT."

The other day I had a 'softie tell me over lunch that "Windows 10 is our way of saying 'oh god, oh god, we're all so very very sorry about Windows 8 and we promise we'll never ever do it again.'" So from here on out, I think we can count on Microsoft to cater to the business and desktop users, as that's where a huge chunk of their money comes from.

I should correct that: "no adherence to a common data schema" should probably be "proprietary, secretive, incompatible tweaks to the overly complex schema in order to proclaim compatibility." Because there's a difference.

No, the reason it's hard has nothing to do with "cloud", and everything to do with "no adherence to a common data schema". If the data was forced to follow a standardized schema, and if standardized service interfaces were required for participating in the government health plan, transferring it would be dead easy. But because different systems have evolved differently over time, the schemas are different, and so transfers remain painful. And because the government funded EPIC without demanding the creation or implementation of industry standards, we crapped away all that money strictly to make one company very, very rich.

The lesson here, kids? If you've got a shot at an upcoming government contract, your best investment dollar is spent on a Congressman. Donate lots of money to his campaign, and you could easily see a 1000 X return on investment. You won't get odds like that gambling on Wall Street.

Ooo, thanks for that! I long ago realized that the only actual value SAS provides is forcing companies to get a bunch of people together to agree on a common data schema, because the rest of their software is dirt simple, and even much of that is of shitty quality. But I didn't recognize the analogy to Stone Soup, and that's perfect!

Congrats! Trust is definitely the best way to parent your kids.