Comment Re:Thanks for "making my day"... apk (Score 1) 166
So you're an Intel troll now, too? Goody for you.
So you're an Intel troll now, too? Goody for you.
"When four sit down to conspire, three are government agents, and one is a fool."
Not that it's at all relevant to the topic at hand, but I was born in the US, although I've not lived there in a long time, as a quick check of my
My sarcasm detector seems to work pretty well most of the time--better than average, I daresay--and I found absolutely nothing in the post to which I originally responded to indicate sarcasm.
Your ignorance is not my problem, amigo.
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.
My 7 years of Spanish classes called. They said you shouldn't trust Googlle Translate without verification from an authoritative source.
That's the same Google Translate that, when you enter a sentence using Chinese characters, often provides Mandarin pronunciations for some of them and Cantonese pronunciations for others, BTW.
How does a reduction in privacy *not* entail a corresponding loss of freedom?
Go ahead, we're waiting.
It's a literal translation of "estadounidense" which means someone from the USA, as opposed to "americano" which means someone from the Americas.
Actually, according to its creator, it was "Horatio Hornblower In Space".
Still managed to win a Hugo award, though.
On behalf of the rest of the Slashdot readership, I humbly invite you to bite me.
I would have gone with "I just leech Cowboy Neal's wifi" myself.
Well, just so you know... I visited Guangzhou last week, and left there at roughly EOB on 30 April.
Put that little logical capsule in your Nespresso and see what gets poured into your mug.
I have mod points, but Slashdot has no "-1, Full Retard", so I'm posting instead.
With your bare hands?!?