The result of that many women will likely be pills...many 7-day courses of pills....

Reverse engineered hell - we had some of the actual Germans who worked on the originals! I'm not certain it counts as reverse engineering when you're just continuing your own work.

Yeah, it's a big place but I'd bet (not having studied a map in any detail) there are relatively few good places to set up shop. We might end up arguing over those eventually.

SlashBI...polls...

Not nearly enough girls here to make this work. Not even as a joke.

What we need is another good scare. The Chinese are well on the way to their own orbital research station (entirely built by them...no comment on where the tech may have come from) and a follow-on exploration of the moon, the Indians are getting their space program going and will probably partner with China in the near-to-mid term, and the ESA and Russia are continuing with the Mars mission planning without us (thanks, Congress!).

Once we start getting left behind...again...it will freak the right people out and we'll get money once more. I just hope it happens before I'm too old to enjoy the new data and pictures.

You've really never played Fallout, have you?

I...think you went to the wrong "doctor."

We can exclude editors - can we please get an option to exclude regularly accepted submitters?

Ever since they used that Russian malware billed as copy protection, I haven't purchased anything from them. Of course, considering all they release are poorly done console ports it doesn't look like I've missed much.

A general request for the game development community - please go talk with Bioware. They've, so far and with few exception anyway (I felt Mass Effect 2 suffered from some console gimpage), figured out the dual PC/console development process.

A specific request to Ubisoft - go out of business. Please. Let the good developers working for you find jobs with decent companies.

Nuke it from orbit...it's the only way to be sure.

Yeah, I didn't realize what a cluster things were in until that incident. I remember one of the reports that came out after the investigation suggested NASA switch to metric for all dealings with the public. It also said that units used were different from center to center, even program to program. I always wondered what became of that suggestion...based on what you said, sounds like not much.

Nah, no hate intended...did you read either the WP article, or google the name of the lander? Here's another link for you.

Your line:

Seemed like part of a conversation that might have taken place at LMA during this time. Fortunately, it did result in NASA placing even more strict controls on source code, both internal and contract.

I largely agree with your comment - folk should be able to at least understand how metric and Imperial units scale to each other. However, consistency does have its place.

I see our resident Lockheed Martin Aerospace representative has chimed in.

Nope - they were copying a PARC research project, same as Apple. Neither one of them does anything truly original - they both just have the resources/foresight to make big things happen. They both steal from anyone they can, and both pay penalties when they do get caught (numerous examples from MS, best example for Apple is the interface theft from Creative Labs for the iPod).

And if you truly believe Jobs would have turned down the contract opportunities Gates had with regards to the "MS tax" you're crazy. MS just got there first.

You are - no offense - an arrogant prick who has missed the point. They claim to advocate standards across the intarwebs for all, putting up a page to view a new whiz-bang standard, but are forcing you to either download their browser, or take (what are to normal users) extraordinary means, to view the content.

Ability to change the User Agent has nothing at all to do with anything in this case.