How can it be secure if it runs in a VM and OS provided by an unknown agency?

Any more of this shit and you will stop eating entirely.

The same article over at boing boing suggested that a sacked ex employee had released the files.

I thought it was their project.

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Thats nice but Ridley Scott didn't make Aliens.

Java has a great runtime environment. It is miles ahead of python, which is too dynamic to be optimised, even at run time.

You best work is behind you. Trashing your successes in this way only makes you look bad. At least do something original, rather than Alien 1.1, etc.

Older systems did that by hand but newer systems have algorithms which guide the trajectories of aircraft on approach so they finish up in a nice sequence. Thats what it sounds like in the summary.

Nah the monitors had individual co-ax connectors for RGB. It was a simple interface if you had the computing muscle to drive it. Not so easy in the early 1990s. The monitors had a serial interface which was proprietary to sony. It was there to shut down the HMI if the monitor stopped working. You could use the monitor without it if you wanted to.

The 2k2k monitors were from Sony. I don't know if finding them was an issue. The unit price was high (~$50k) and sony must have had other markets. Later LCD monitors were from NTT. Barco are in the market as well making monitors for environments with high ambient light.

Yeah 2k2k was standard even back in the 1990s on Eurocat using CRTs. I am a bit surprised they haven't gone beyond it now though, given what can be done with LCD.

Its a mototcycle. Where I live the limit is 200 watts. Less than that and your vehicle is a bicycle regardless of the number of wheels it has. I suspect this engine puts out a lot more than 200W.

I thought maybe the reader can tell the card give me 10^6 Zimbabwe dollars, and then tells the back end card has agreed to 10^6 UK pounds.

I looks like the hybrid solid/liquid engine isn't going to push SS2 to 100km altitude. The original compound ran rough and it doesn't have a high enough specific impulse. The new compound explodes. Dick Rutan demonstrated a Long-EZ equipped with a liquid fueled engine in 2001. I think it is time to go back to XCOR and ask about a bigger engine.