Um, no. The Air Force gave Russia the contract with zero bidding process. SpaceX literally never had a chance. They're suing for a level playing field where they could bid against Russia in an open process.
The rest of your post is...... well.
You can't print stamps using that service. You need to actually purchase stamps, or have an account from somewhere like Stamps.com or Pitney Bowes.
There are a number of things that require it. For me the big ones are MLB At Bat, WatchESPN, Hulu, and HBO Go.
"I've never seen a floppy that big!"
"Wait til you see it spinning."
If the IRS does decide to pay Microsoft for continued support of XP, the chances of it paying the standard $200 per PC rate is effectively zero.
The numbers in the summary are total fantasy.
It costs a lot more than a new PC to upgrade thousands of PCs. Imaging, deployment, backup/restore processes for the end users is just the beginning. Upgrading dozens, hundreds, or thousands of individual customized applications to be compatible with Windows 7 is an absolute nightmare. I know all about this just from upgrading my relatively small workplace from XP to 7. It was a fight just to get core, mission critical apps to work with IE 9; 10 and 11 are out of the question. Lots of cash to vendors and app support folks, lots of cash to deployment specialists, lots of overtime. Adds up to a LOT of money.
By the way: $9 million over 680,000 PCs is $13 per PC. That's less than we paid per PC to have a contractor come in and physically install new machines at desks, and completely ignores the cost of OS licensing, hardware, support, and the thousands and thousands of man hours the IT department spent with associated tasks.
So much for "Whale Wars" and the gang of the Sea Shepard. Ah well.
Seriously though, laudable as the decision (that would require others to enforce) is, I'm baffled that it took this long (almost 4 years) to make a decision on something that clearly wasn't scientific in nature.
Gears-Plural, more than one Gear-Singular, only one
It has a gear. It does not have gears.
I'm sure you'll now come in asking about reverse.
Wow, so many of you who can't count to two? A gear is useless without ANOTHER gear coupled to it. A single ratio gear driven coupling transmission system requires at least TWO gears to work. One connected to the output. One connected to the input. Those gears are coupled (teeth of one drive the teeth of the other).
Yet there are a dozen posts by transmission and gear experts who seem to think that one free floating gear magically transfers power to someplace without another gear meshed to it. Wow. Just... wow.
That doesn't demonstrate that it's all about the money. Some preachers know that they're selling BS, others actually believe their derp. I think Ham is an emotional thinker, and actually believes the nonsense he spouts.
I don't. He cherry picks too much - especially when confronted with conflicting biblical "evidence" where he either ignores the conflict or cherry picks himself off into a different direction.
Very cool! I wrote a script a long while ago which you might like (or find a use for).
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
It's a next-gen script but could be adapted. It's got good pacing and it's an easy read.
Cool - please contact me via the Facebook link in my sig or via our startreknewvoyages.com website's contact page.
"(including *SUN* libraries that don't work in Java 6/7)"
You know that com.sun.* was never intended to be a stable API, right? You were using private APIs, now complaining that they broke, and blaming Java? That's some misdirected anger IMHO.
I used no such thing. I inherited the code when the company I work for bought another company and their infrastructure.
Cool. It just reminds me of a talk someone gave about a big project in C++ which had a hellish 20 hour build.
It's great stuff. One of the things I am enjoying the most about it is cutting the number of needed interlinking systems and technology down to a bare minimum using methods in one messaging system that everything can connect to (with MQ once again giving the assist where needed). Also wrapping EVERY vendor function from EVERY vendor library I deal with - in the end, with everything compiled with that one new wrapping library, it means all we ever have to do is deploy a new vendor library with an updated wrapper library - instead of changing code across hundreds of projects.
What's your relationship with Star Trek Phase II? It looks like you write a number of articles for them on their site.
One of the producers and the lighting guy (Gaffer). One new episode out this past Dec 31st, and another coming soon (once we manage the daunting task of color correcting from the original raw footage).
And here's more...
...was deprecated in J2SE 5.0. It has been disabled in Java SE 6, and it will be removed in the next release.
There are a lot of those if you step through the Java versions. Most people don't realize it ever. I ran into it first hand.
Either way, I love this job, especially since part of my project is to make sure this gets done correctly (instead of what happened under the previous code owners).
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
