Please refer to this link for airline pilot salary info from someone who's been there:
http://thetruthabouttheprofession.weebly.com/professional-pilot-salaries.html

You need an equatorial mount to deal with the field rotation you would normally get in an alt-az mount with long exposure photography. For people with computerized alt-az mounts, you can get an adjustable wedge that goes under the mount head that will align one axis with polaris and solve the field rotation issue; however wedges add weight to an already heavy mount (not to mention shifting the balance of everything upwards).

When the Apple IIgs came out, the Apple II line was already set for EOL. Apple was putting all its marbles in the future of the Macintosh. Woz is a big reason the IIgs was as good as it was. He fought for the inclusion of the ensonic sound chip, and the IIgs had better sound than any other PC at the time (yes, you needed an add-on board for stereo, but still). The Amiga graphics were only a little better than the IIgs. The IIgs would've lasted longer if it had Apple's full support. However, it was intended to be the final Apple II, time for everybody to move on. A shame, because a decked out IIgs with cpu accelerator, stereo card, upgraded memory, scsi card and external hard drive was a very capable and useful computer.

Don't Panic.

Did you even read the articles?

quote:
JPL spokeswoman Whitney Clavin said the ring is very diffuse and doesn't reflect much visible light but the infrared Spitzer telescope was able to detect it.

"The particles are so far apart that if you were to stand in the ring, you wouldn't even know it," said Verbiscer.

Don't forget about Titanic. Before it came out, people everywhere were saying it would flop because of the enormous budget. Say what you want about the artistic merits of the film, but you can't deny it made a metric assload of cash.