Red Dwarf Quote here:

"We need to get fresh water; the urine's been recycled so much it's stronger than the lager!"

are you working while at school?

I was a TA while I was in grad school. Got tuition PLUS pay PLUS healthcare. I would HIGHLY recommend looking into that. Definitely helps relieving future debt.

1) Grade papers 2) get drunk 3) grade more papers

We worked maybe 32hrs/week after considering grading papers. Remaining time was for my studies. I was a lazy student though - I had to keep a B average to keep my TA job though, so I had a bit of motivation :-)

There are a lot in orbit a little ahead and behind us, that a phase transfer after escaping earth's gravity would get us where we need to be. Check out this article:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/26/146249/Video-Showing-Half-a-Million-Asteroid-Discoveries

The new frame is larger than the old one - maybe he designed some cushion into it?

Industrial Engineers Mechanical Engineers

Depending on his discipline, the prof would give him a A for unique design, ergonomics, or mass-producability (prototype was 3D lathed, but design could be cast?). Drop test durability would fall under a mechanical engineer, imo.

grandparent is referring to Toe-in. You need some to keep the car stable, but excessive toe-in will create tire wear.

Some cars that are going to be constantly side-loaded (Nascar, for example) will run negative camber to improve tire contact in turns.

Under normal driving conditions, loading one sidewall more than another could lead to premature failure of the tires.

You obviously don't live in Chicago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1960

Since I don't know how to direct down the page... [from the wiki article]

However, a special prosecutor assigned to the case brought charges against 650 people, which did not result in convictions.[1] Three Chicago election workers were convicted of voter fraud in 1962 and served short terms in jail.[1] Mazo, the Herald-Tribune reporter, later said that he found names of the dead who had voted in Chicago, along with 56 people from one house.[1] He found cases of Republican voter fraud in southern Illinois, but said the totals didn't match the Chicago fraud he found.[1] After Mazo had published four parts of an intended 12-part voter fraud series documenting his findings which was re-published nationally, he says Nixon requested his publisher stop the rest of the series so as to prevent a constitutional crisis.[1] Nevertheless, the Chicago Tribune wrote that "the election of November 8 was characterized by such gross and palpable fraud as to justify the conclusion that [Nixon] was deprived of victory."[1] Had Nixon won both states, he would have ended up with exactly 270 electoral votes and the presidency, with or without a victory in the popular vote.

I should correct myself. The OS itself wasn't crap. The fact that NOBODY developed for it made the experience with the OS crap.

Before Vista came out, we had one machine in our office running XP64. We use primarily Solidworks and they came out with a 64-bit version of their software. Completely buggy and some files weren't compatible with the 32-bit versions of them. Complete fiasco when you're staring down a deadline.
Eventually, they fixed it and now things are seamless. I have more machines running 64bit, but am limited because our stupid VPN can't handle 64 yet...

My experience with installers/programs that don't run in Win7-64:

"Did this program install/run correctly?
Windows detected an unexpected crashing of your program. Would you like to run the program again in compatibility mode?"

Lots of problems solved that way.
If that doesn't work, there's always my dual-boot of WindowsXP I have on my machine, though I haven't had to touch it for months.

It is crap because it was weird and drivers were hard to come by. It is based on Windows Server, if I remember correctly...