My mom is a tenured University professor and my stepfather is very, very smart structural engineer, now retired. They both call for tech support every once in a while. I'm quite sure - by the nature of the calls - they would be able to solve their problem themselves. But they like my wife and I coming over in the weekend for "helping them with their computer". The tech support call is nothing more than a "hey son, why don't you come over here?" call.

Maybe your dad do the same thing to you?

Older X11 application (like those built on Motif) are like that. They send a stream of primitives, so they're easily used over a network. But modern applications (like those built on Qt and GTK) use X11 as a screen buffer and instead of using X11 primitives, they just send large bitmaps to the X11 server. So modern X11 applications sucks when used over a network but older ones actually works fine.

A large organization such a national electronic warfare unit is able to perform more target attacks: obtaining information about the target systems using other means such as human intelligence, coordinating a large team with multiple specialists (an exploit guy, a SCADA engineer, ...), being able to use again human intelligence to infiltrate the target, like bribing a guy to run a software from a USB drive or something like that.

While a single individual might be able to pull a highly targeted attack, it is considerably easier to a large organization to have the necessary budget to hire different specialists, coordinate with other agencies to leverage their resources, and so on.

There are two very different sets of requirements whether you need to cross or not the radiation belts. For low earth orbits, COTS equipment is fine for a short mission. For higher orbits, including direct lunar transfer or a Hoffman orbit transfer, radiation hardened equipment is a must.

Also the Android-running cubesat (by Surrey U (UK), not NASA, if I recall correctly) is just a inexpensive cubesat mission (under 50 or 60k USD, including launch costs) not an expensive lunar lander.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different

Maybe It's easier to dodge DEA than OSHA :-)

Funny, we do a lot of HPC and had some problems with Ivy Bridge. But I think it's just some hand optimizations for previous architectures gone wrong.

Anyone else had similar experiences?

Read about Customer Development at Steve Blank blog.

An Angel investor can also help you with business connections and hiring the right person to do it.

Do you have a reference for that article? Or the author name?

Does launch latitude matters for polar orbits?

As far as I know, In-Q-Tel is an investment fund, providing venture capital for strategic companies. IARPA is a research grant agency.

Correct link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms738518(v=vs.85).aspx

In my humble experience, the occasional flowers or chocolate box in an unexpected day works as well as a piece of jewellery every few years.

Naughtius Maximus, of course.