Yeah, I don't think he's suffered.

I mean, he did bone Princess Leia. Several times.

The word everyone is looking for would be obsolescent. Just because a newer processor comes out, it doesn't mean that the old ones stop working en masse.

The statement isn't even true, however. Not as long as the older gear is still useful and the inconvenience of replacement outweighs the advantages.

The days of gentlemen skippers are long gone. America's cup teams now use professional crews and professional skippers. USA 17 (the current cup holder) was helmed by Russell Coutts. Larry didn't "command the crew", Russell did. Larry's most important task was to support Russell financially and organizationally.

I don't mean to take away from Larry's abilities as a sailor, but simply to point out the commitment required of sailors at the top levels of competition. It's no longer the hobby it was 30 years ago. It is a life and a career.

The only "advantage" is when you're defaulted to Windows because an ISV has a required shrink wrap application available only for Windows.

I'm guessing this is the command that lit off the rocket. It seems like it's still used for a lot of weapons development testing.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/point-mugu.htm

The lady didn't die because of the bicycle accident. She died 3 months later due to an unrelated cause.

Math has an axiomatic basis, and those axioms have no natural validity to them. We don't strictly know any mathematical assertions are true, we believe they are true.

At this age, those teachings tend to be very concrete. "Don't play with matches." "Don't touch things on the stove." Being able to logically evaluate the consequences of a theoretical action in a situation with which a child is unfamiliar would be almost unheard of.

It actually does mean they can't plan evil. Within the Piaget model, children do not form the processes necessary to reasonably determine the consequences of their actions and furthermore do not have an understanding of right and wrong beyond an egocentric level.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_cognitive_development#Preoperational_stage

But you're right about the brain matter thing.

Go watch 2001 again.

Not a problem. Diesels tend to be quite durable, so (with a few notable exceptions) if you can put the mileage into the car, the motor will stand up to it. 1/2 million miles is not uncommon for a VW diesel.

It doesn't make sense to buy an expensive, efficient car if you're going to be putting in low mileage/low hours on your car.

The reasoning that dictator X is worse than dictator Y because X killed more than Y is pure bullshit. Evil doesn't scale with body count, it's a qualitative evaluation.

Hitler's influence certainly lasted more than a decade. Regimes which were influenced by Nazism and it's methods of control include East Germany (the Gestapo were cloned into the Stasi), Peron in Argentina, and the Baath party in Iraq and Syria.

Eisenhower wasn't upset about having a strong, high technology military. He was concerned that crackpot projects were excessively milking the country for money and that military spending should be looked upon always with a certain amount of clear eyed judgement to prevent unwarranted waste.

Nuclear powered bombers? Remember that one? Safeguard? Heck, even now NMD is being built for pork purposes under the smokescreen of a fictional "rogue nation" threat.

Even the Sovs had their own version military industrial complex. They called it the "metal eaters alliance".

I'd say it was pretty much total war. There was a certain amount of trust within the western allied governments that the generals would not be wasteful with soldiers lives and I think Eisenhower and his colleagues were cognisant of that.

I'm guessing this is adaptable to alternative sensor platforms, not just cell towers. If they want that kind of accuracy from the SIGINT/DF hardware, they can probably get it. The problem is that they might not have a handle on the systematic errors being introduced into their targeting.

For example, say they slave the on station Predator optics to data from this software so they can pick up a guy in a town and follow him to wherever he's going. Everything is peachy, because they know there was nobody within 10m (but there were people 12m away) and the system's supposed to be accurate to 5m (or whatever). They have a good fix. CIA decides to make him an ex-person and maybe kills the wrong guy.

I hope this doesn't happen. I hope there are redundant checks within such a program to keep these things from happening. Maybe he has to make two phone calls. Who knows? The original contractor didn't know specifically how their software would be used. They wanted to ensure that the new hardware would match the old based on their regression testing so that as much as humanly possible, there would be no surprises.

Big myth, here.

http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/saturn_five_000313.html

Rebuilding the assembly lines and rediscovering the small things which aren't down on paper. That's what's hard. The design is still there, right where it should be.

Now people actually know quite a bit about main engines. Nobody makes the really big ones these days because there's not much work and not a large amount of funding for big boosters. If the gloves were pulled off, I'm sure that they'd be able to impress.