Awesome video material, no doubt about that! It's great to see this amazing machine from these perspectives. Especially after the SRB's were disconnected with their jets still flaming while falling away.. jaw dropping!

Also I'd like to recommend to the Space Shuttle fans the videos you can find online with a launch from an airliner.

E.g.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv5J5cBwwFc

Personally I hate it. Some people love it, but I hate it..

Why? Probably because it tries to be too smart which somehow conflicts with the way in which I use a web browser.

For example when developing with url's for a production and a live system which are very similar I prefer to type the first few characters of a url and select the correct one that I need. Then the last thing I need is when I enter e.g. an 'o' in the location bar that I get 'slashdot.org' because there's an 'o' in the name _somewhere_. No, I don't want somewhere, I want a _starts with_ approach.

But I guess what frustrates me most of all is that this has been implemented without an EASY way to turn off/revert back to how browsers deal with entering an url since well, basically the start of the modern web browsers.

Just a single 'awesome bar? on/off' button would have been so nice.. that way everyone could have decided to use it or not depending on personal preferences. This instead of needing to tweak an about:config or installing add-ons which more or less return things to the 'not so awesome way of doing things'.

To be honest: it even almost made me switch back to IE, but it's the web developer toolbar that makes me stay.. that + the add-on which more or less removes the awesome bar.

So familiar :)

E.g. something along the line of:

"Would you like chocolade or cake?"

"Yes!" ;-)

Sshhhh... don't tell our secret to too many people!

There was a Python instructional video which said: "Let the snake be your teacher!"

Just a few people, like you, got the double meaning of that expression ;-P

;-) ;-)

Nice addition:

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has been using Python since 1998. This email from Thanos Vassilakis, then a programmer for NYSE, highlights the reliability, manageability, and ease of use enjoyed by Python programmers (not to mention family life!):

    On the New York Stock Exchange we use three languages in production to deliver serious trading services to the Specialists: c, C++, Python.

    Perl, tcl/tk, Java are used but for scripting, tools, and minor services where performance and memory foot print are not an issue. Yes, used correctly Python meets our performance, security and reliability requirements.

    We have had Java projects and launched Java services, they have all failed. We have many in the pipeline (thanks Big Blue) but NYSE's only serious internet based service is written in Python, and was launched in 1998. It is still up in it's sixth version, with no down time! The fifth version was rewritten in Java, 6 months overdue, failed, and replaced by python ( which took two weeks).

    Here at SIAC and NYSE Python is recognized by management to give results that other languages just can't achieve.

    For performance we have extended Python with our own specialized c objects, and we have used swig extensively to integrate to our legacy code, and middleware.

    Thanks Python, you let me get home to my kids.

    thanos

NYSE has run Python since 1998, when it rolled out its first internet application. It has experienced no downtime and has enjoyed Python's significant backward-compatability character ever since.

http://python.about.com/b/2006/11/17/the-new-york-stock-exchange-nyse-and-python.htm

I also grew up in a rural area and somehow I've just got a built-in compass. Even when not directly seeing the sun in large cities, it's for me very easy to see what north/south is just by the type of light. Light in the north is more clear and white then light in the south. I've always had a bedroom with a window exactly north, perhaps that's why. :) But even in windows and staircases, I can usually just keep track of which is north. For navigation to streets I don't know in a city, I take e.g. a Google Maps print out, spot the general direction compared to $current_location and move towards it. Somehow it just doesn't matter to be if I go left-right or straight-left..etc. I end up where I need to go almost perfectly time after time again. :) And at night: the stars (Big Dipper/Cassiopeia/Orion are easy to spot). Also the moon can be useful: http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/true-north3.htm

"Due to the magic of software when one flight computer knows how to handle some situation, they all do."

Why... do I suddenly have this mental picture of Star Trek' Borg adjusting their shields instantly to phasers being fired at them. ;-)

The first goes down, the rest keeps walking towards you...

Mebibotnet, Mebibotnet.. Maybe it's a Mebibotnet, maybe.. ;p

That's no moon! :O

(Obligatory, please forgive me..)

I think... you might just have collapsed a certain probability wave which governs the object of your affection. ;P

I third that!

Awesome editor, very lightweight, powerful and one can download/develop personal syntax files to add support for other languages. E.g. Unreal script or other lesser known languages.

Also see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_handicap_of_a_head_start

No, I nearly died choking on my lunch when I read your reply. ;O

I'm suddenly seeing the expression "GO TO Hell" from a completely new perspective, lol. :)