money is made in software through support. the software can be given away and if a good product the support contracts will be bought. Microsoft makes money this way, Redhat makes money this way. Get a clue.

that's because the blind are a gift to Shal-Hulud

news for you, asshole, the fascist power grab already happened. too bad you missed it.

if that doesn't hit your particular model of printer, just make a list of all those with canon engines.

wrong. pro-space includes manned and unmanned space mission. Even if we confine discussion to manned space, the benefits to integrated circuits of the manned space program are used by all the unmanned space applications such as satellite.

And that vacuum tube SAGE computer is yet another thing obsoleted by discrete solid state computers, which were obsoleted by the integrated circuit based ones which had enormous benefit from manned space program, stupid of you to bring that dinosaur up.

that's just the point, the SAGE was obsoleted in purpose by ICBMs, and in architecture by transistors. it's a silly thing to bring up to counter argument that space program did nothing for such systems

what's the point of reliability features appropriate to business big iron on a 1990s vector supercomputer architecture? the IBM mainframe kicks its butt in reliability and DBMS TPM, the power7 and sun t4-4 kick its butt in perfomance.....what's the point of Itanic?

yes, and I use gobs of the stuff

can you fake a hispanic accent, our BATF might sell you some machine guns just to see what you'll do with them....

but that's no fun, very unlikely a simple failure could kill anyone. this newfangled this adds more thrill and risk