That wasn't the controller, that was the NASA PR commentator. The same old guy that emcees the pre/post flight meetings.
Anyway, Must tweeted that it was a bad turbopump valve. They're replacing it and making sure it isn't a common problem to worry about for the other engines.
To show how bad it is in the US, when BBC-America shows Top Gear in its entirety, it's an hour and 20 minutes long. 33% of the show is commercials. And they wonder why I canceled my cable service.
There's also the fact that I've hit the "downvote" instead of "reply" by accident at times, and you can't undo it AFAICT. Hey, if I was coordinated, I probably wouldn't be in computers!
Actually that's not as daft an idea as you might think. I just finished Tom Vanderbilt's "Traffic: Why we drive the way we do" which was a hell of an interesting look at all the problems of traffic. Even if you don't agree with him, it makes you think about it all.
If the printer part dies, runs out of toner, etc. does the fax/scan still work? I've seen plenty of all-in-ones where if one part has a problem, the rest refuses to work even though it's got nothing to do with the broken part. Messages like "you're out of cyan, I can't scan!!" get a visit from Mr. Hammer. HP & Epson are big offenders here, in my experience.
Also, I think lasers are de facto a lot cheaper than inkjet. My Brother wakes up instantly after a month powered off without a clogged ink cartridge or the need to spend 10 minutes cleaning by wasting a lot of ink. It just prints and goes back to sleep. It also doesn't refuse to print w/o an expensive service after 15 cartridges like an Epson. The normal cost calculations don't take this into account.
They also have to dodge Congress, who are doing as much as legally possible to avoid funding SpaceX/COTS, and to send as much pork to Boeing to fund further Powerpoint development.
OTOH, this means NASA doesn't have the funds to micromanage the contracts like they wanted, and they're having to be a lot more flexible, so this may not be such a bad thing.
The spaceship we cared about so much that we don't have them any more
Yup, and Congress is so intent on destroying any post-Shuttle launch capability that it's refusing to fund commercial flight that actually has flyable hardware, and instead sending pork to Boeing who have an assload of Powerpoints and one vaguely Apollo-shaped mockup.
Shuttle was nice, and I loved watching the launches (not so much the sonic booms at 3am) but it should have had at least a liquid reusable booster, and been replaced 15 years ago by something more advanced, using lessons learned. Now most of the folk that learned those lessons are now learning to say "would you like fries with that?"
However, Enterprise was useful as hell in the ALT drop tests. It showed more than a few bugs in the flight software amongst other things we learned. It's not a mockup.
I've voted with my money. I just canceled my cable TV.
I'm a late night person, and I'm *so* damned tired of the "nothing but infomercials" 3am TV. Out of 32 channels that I watch on a regular basis, only one was not showing a paid infomercial. I'm paying for this?? No, not any more.
So do I. Actually I buy the good ones from Delorme. As well as a GPS, and the printout of directions from Google Maps. Plus my Android phone if my GPS conks out and I happen to have a signal.
Yes, I get lost easily. GPS is a fuckin' absolute godsend, you smug buckwheat. I remember all the times with a map going "and just WHERE on foobar ave am I, and why the hell can't they signpost cross streets?"
Not really. Every time I've gone over to Best Buy for something I *need* immediately, they don't have it anyway. I'm talking basic stuff like hard drives, network cards, etc.
If you go to the mfgr site (http://www.husqvarna.com/us/products/robotic-mowers/husqvarna-robotic-mowers-for-homeowners/) guess what they have a picture of...
AKA killing the chicken for dinner tonight, but ensuring you'll not have eggs tomorrow.
This is the same thing Kodak did, selling off all its R&D & profitable divisions, then being surprised when it was left with only unprofitable divisions.
Facebook can do all the wacky stuff they want, but one important thing they can't touch is my email.
When Google went through their temper tantrum about usernames, I yanked my G+ membership in a heartbeat and I am never going back, as long as my gmail account is my primary address. I've had enough people tell me "Cash? No, we need a real last name..." TYVM.
Hm. Considering the absolute senseless panic when Air Force One flew around the Statue of Liberty doing a photo-op, I see many sensationalized news stories coming out next Tuesday afternoon. My "fellow citizens" are morons and I expect them to act like it.
At least the card slot works as well as the original Xoom. I still can't see what the horrible difficulty is in writing to an SD card... my Droid does it just fine.
My network card died this week on my PC, so I headed over to BB a block away for a new one. There was a Netgear gigabit PCI one for $30 on their website.
So I'm wandering around and see lots of routers, wireless stuff, but no NICs. I saw a network-over-powerline thing for $80, and I picked it up so I wouldn't need to run cable to the garage.
I didn't see any sales staff either, so I headed up front and asked for help. The manager came over, so of course about half a dozen staff showed up.
I asked about an ethernet card, and one of the morons points to a wireless USB dongle. I said I wanted wired, and he said "oh we haven't stocked WIRED since OCTOBER!" (wired is so '90s! tsssh! get with the picccccturrrreeeee)
The manager calmly nodded and said "yup" so I set my $80 impulse purchase down and left.
The NASM has 1/4 of an F-1 mockup, set into a mirrored corner in a lame attempt to make it look like the real thing. Having also seen the real thing, I think it's a major ripoff and rather surprised they'd do such a poor exhibit.
If you think that's impressive, you should see the real thing.
Can I please vote up the parent comment about 1000x? I'm tired of the entitlement attitude in this country. I hope she gets beaten in court like a red-headed stepchild.
By Verizon & T-Mobile, at least in the US. They block it, make it very expensive to purchase, put a tiny data cap on it, and if you get around your blocking and they find out about it, your connection stops working and they try to charge you the $350 ETF.
I vastly regret buying my 4G Xoom. What a waste of money.
It should be free to the end-user as well. From midnight onwards, it's mostly no-content paid advertising programming for things like "Celeb Hair Styling Tips with the Amazing Rotating InStyler!!!" or "Shark Steam Mop - Best Deal Ever!" or "Firmer Skin in 10 Minutes"
And that's real crap cut'n'pasted from my channel guide, not an exaggeration. I'm actually paying for this garbage.
I still think this is a stupidity/trustworthiness test
Anyone I interviewed who DID had over his password would quickly find his application in the round file as a security risk. Plus it would be interesting how they would phrase the "no, I don't think so" because that would show how well they deal with conflict.
No, you don't. What you really have to do is write robust code that doesn't depend on a screen size. And I've never had to handle the physical keyboard on my Droid any different than the virtual one... that is what the OS is for.
Also, the emulator doesn't take 5 minutes to start even on my POS Pentium D box, and that doesn't matter since you can leave it running and just redeploy as necessary.
To me, that screen is just an annoyance that it didn't go directly to "My Apps"
If Google is going to push their books, why don't they spend time on writing a reader that can display basic things like footnotes, and isn't a usability showcase of horrors?
And of course there's the thoroughly beaten dead horse where Google has an app store where you can't find anything unless you already know the name.
How about policing the hundreds of apps that are simply warmed-over examples from the SDK with a price tag and adware (maybe some malware too) added? Or the couple hundred apps that are a rotating cube with various Playboy copyright violations horribly pixelated onto them? Then perhaps I can take the "contains 450,000 apps" bit seriously.
And if I hack it, can I say I was only playing around?
I remember the days when I'd take my car with ABS to anyone other than the dealer and it was "Nah, can't work on that, I don't have the equipment and it's too much of a liability issue"
And given that I have yet to see a dealership with competent techs...
DAMN YOU, EL REG! Now I'm going to be humming "dum-da-da-dum-dum" for the rest of the afternoon. If I get murdered by my cubemates, it's all your fault!
Paris, because I'd like to get a hummer from her, too....
For me, the ability to toss the shitty CUPS crap and just run lprng is important, so I want a printer that does Postscript. This also gets around "does my driver/setup know how to handle duplex" too, as PS deals with this natively.
My old Brother HL-5240 does PS just fine and cost <US$120, so it's not a high-end feature.
One of the ditzy blonde types posted her apartment as a public place. She also posted a picture of herself in a rather abbreviated top. Then she complained that "creepy strange guys" were checking into her apartment.
You know, I realized when Creative Computing did a review of Bukka-Bukka Bath Toys that they were not far from going out of business, and sure enough, they only lasted another 4 issues.
I hope this doesn't mean El Reg is circling the drain in similar fashion, as I liked them.
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They're apparently still in the legal stage of "Do you know why I pulled you over?" "Uh, no, officer..."
Re: About time
Including my Xoom, which was supposed to be a "Google Experience" device....?
I guess I did get the full Google experience, after all. That Xoom was the biggest ripoff right after buying anything Garmin or Sony.
Saw it from Orlando
It was a perfect cloudless sky, so the first stage was an incredibly bright flare, even from 45 miles away. It was worth getting eaten by mosquitoes.
Re: "Lift-offfffffffff"
That wasn't the controller, that was the NASA PR commentator. The same old guy that emcees the pre/post flight meetings.
Anyway, Must tweeted that it was a bad turbopump valve. They're replacing it and making sure it isn't a common problem to worry about for the other engines.
To show how bad it is in the US, when BBC-America shows Top Gear in its entirety, it's an hour and 20 minutes long. 33% of the show is commercials. And they wonder why I canceled my cable service.
Re: @Jai
There's also the fact that I've hit the "downvote" instead of "reply" by accident at times, and you can't undo it AFAICT. Hey, if I was coordinated, I probably wouldn't be in computers!
Re: Just throw them all away
Actually that's not as daft an idea as you might think. I just finished Tom Vanderbilt's "Traffic: Why we drive the way we do" which was a hell of an interesting look at all the problems of traffic. Even if you don't agree with him, it makes you think about it all.
Re: Modern Cars
I notice you don't count purchase price in your car, while you do in her's... apples to oranges there, mate.
Re: Swapping hard drives
Because they're a hard drive vendor?
If the printer dies...
If the printer part dies, runs out of toner, etc. does the fax/scan still work? I've seen plenty of all-in-ones where if one part has a problem, the rest refuses to work even though it's got nothing to do with the broken part. Messages like "you're out of cyan, I can't scan!!" get a visit from Mr. Hammer. HP & Epson are big offenders here, in my experience.
Also, I think lasers are de facto a lot cheaper than inkjet. My Brother wakes up instantly after a month powered off without a clogged ink cartridge or the need to spend 10 minutes cleaning by wasting a lot of ink. It just prints and goes back to sleep. It also doesn't refuse to print w/o an expensive service after 15 cartridges like an Epson. The normal cost calculations don't take this into account.
Re: One wonders about...
Yup, I only buy PS printers, or knockoffs like Brotherscript. No dealing with CUPS brokenness for me, TYVM.
You can get the PDF of the Alaska accident report at http://usaf.aib.law.af.mil/ExecSum2011/F-22A_AK_16%20Nov%2010.pdf
It makes very interesting reading.
Re: We're not walking away from Windows Phone
"LG is fully on board the Windows Phone train"
Must be British Rail
Paypal... anticompetitive...
Pot... kettle... black.
And the test fire worked
The 3pm try got scrubbed at 47sec "because of an invalid limit setting" but the second try at 4:15pm EDT seemed to go quite well.
Re: Ya gotta love these SpaceX guys...
They also have to dodge Congress, who are doing as much as legally possible to avoid funding SpaceX/COTS, and to send as much pork to Boeing to fund further Powerpoint development.
OTOH, this means NASA doesn't have the funds to micromanage the contracts like they wanted, and they're having to be a lot more flexible, so this may not be such a bad thing.
The spaceship we cared about so much that we don't have them any more
Yup, and Congress is so intent on destroying any post-Shuttle launch capability that it's refusing to fund commercial flight that actually has flyable hardware, and instead sending pork to Boeing who have an assload of Powerpoints and one vaguely Apollo-shaped mockup.
Shuttle was nice, and I loved watching the launches (not so much the sonic booms at 3am) but it should have had at least a liquid reusable booster, and been replaced 15 years ago by something more advanced, using lessons learned. Now most of the folk that learned those lessons are now learning to say "would you like fries with that?"
However, Enterprise was useful as hell in the ALT drop tests. It showed more than a few bugs in the flight software amongst other things we learned. It's not a mockup.
Meh.
You'll notice they're still getting rid of the department, just not firing anyone right now. That'll happen after the media goes away.
UF's basically a party school, and their CS department sucks anyways.
Re: The greasy underbelly of the internet
I've voted with my money. I just canceled my cable TV.
I'm a late night person, and I'm *so* damned tired of the "nothing but infomercials" 3am TV. Out of 32 channels that I watch on a regular basis, only one was not showing a paid infomercial. I'm paying for this?? No, not any more.
Re: I use paper maps. Free, from AAA.
So do I. Actually I buy the good ones from Delorme. As well as a GPS, and the printout of directions from Google Maps. Plus my Android phone if my GPS conks out and I happen to have a signal.
Yes, I get lost easily. GPS is a fuckin' absolute godsend, you smug buckwheat. I remember all the times with a map going "and just WHERE on foobar ave am I, and why the hell can't they signpost cross streets?"
Re: A shame in one sense
Not really. Every time I've gone over to Best Buy for something I *need* immediately, they don't have it anyway. I'm talking basic stuff like hard drives, network cards, etc.
Re: An automatic lawnmower...
If you go to the mfgr site (http://www.husqvarna.com/us/products/robotic-mowers/husqvarna-robotic-mowers-for-homeowners/) guess what they have a picture of...
Re: Close, but....
It was banned in my Lutheran High School. I lost my computer privileges for even asking "whut about dem dinosaurs?"
"slashed Yahoo!‘s search development expenses"
AKA killing the chicken for dinner tonight, but ensuring you'll not have eggs tomorrow.
This is the same thing Kodak did, selling off all its R&D & profitable divisions, then being surprised when it was left with only unprofitable divisions.
They can screw my email over hard if they want
Facebook can do all the wacky stuff they want, but one important thing they can't touch is my email.
When Google went through their temper tantrum about usernames, I yanked my G+ membership in a heartbeat and I am never going back, as long as my gmail account is my primary address. I've had enough people tell me "Cash? No, we need a real last name..." TYVM.
Panic?
Hm. Considering the absolute senseless panic when Air Force One flew around the Statue of Liberty doing a photo-op, I see many sensationalized news stories coming out next Tuesday afternoon. My "fellow citizens" are morons and I expect them to act like it.
Sony? No, thanks...
Not buying anything Sony ever again. No matter how nice it is.
Re: But Still No Card Slot
At least the card slot works as well as the original Xoom. I still can't see what the horrible difficulty is in writing to an SD card... my Droid does it just fine.
Perfect output device...
... for the "girls around me" app??
Make mine a trenchcoat.
THANK GOD!
My network card died this week on my PC, so I headed over to BB a block away for a new one. There was a Netgear gigabit PCI one for $30 on their website.
So I'm wandering around and see lots of routers, wireless stuff, but no NICs. I saw a network-over-powerline thing for $80, and I picked it up so I wouldn't need to run cable to the garage.
I didn't see any sales staff either, so I headed up front and asked for help. The manager came over, so of course about half a dozen staff showed up.
I asked about an ethernet card, and one of the morons points to a wireless USB dongle. I said I wanted wired, and he said "oh we haven't stocked WIRED since OCTOBER!" (wired is so '90s! tsssh! get with the picccccturrrreeeee)
The manager calmly nodded and said "yup" so I set my $80 impulse purchase down and left.
Staples across the street had the card for $21.
Re: Well...
The Xoom *is* supposed to be a "Google Experience" device just like the Nexus, and they still can't get ICS on that either.
Re: If you really have too much money ...
The NASM has 1/4 of an F-1 mockup, set into a mirrored corner in a lame attempt to make it look like the real thing. Having also seen the real thing, I think it's a major ripoff and rather surprised they'd do such a poor exhibit.
If you think that's impressive, you should see the real thing.
And on my old Palm devices...
Being an American...
Can I please vote up the parent comment about 1000x? I'm tired of the entitlement attitude in this country. I hope she gets beaten in court like a red-headed stepchild.
By whom?
By Verizon & T-Mobile, at least in the US. They block it, make it very expensive to purchase, put a tiny data cap on it, and if you get around your blocking and they find out about it, your connection stops working and they try to charge you the $350 ETF.
I vastly regret buying my 4G Xoom. What a waste of money.
Considering the amount of ads...
It should be free to the end-user as well. From midnight onwards, it's mostly no-content paid advertising programming for things like "Celeb Hair Styling Tips with the Amazing Rotating InStyler!!!" or "Shark Steam Mop - Best Deal Ever!" or "Firmer Skin in 10 Minutes"
And that's real crap cut'n'pasted from my channel guide, not an exaggeration. I'm actually paying for this garbage.
I still think this is a stupidity/trustworthiness test
Anyone I interviewed who DID had over his password would quickly find his application in the round file as a security risk. Plus it would be interesting how they would phrase the "no, I don't think so" because that would show how well they deal with conflict.
Re: What's with the tortured acronyms?
Apollo acronym?? That's the first I've heard of that in 45 years of being a space nut...
Re: So is this like the Unix® story?
No, you don't. What you really have to do is write robust code that doesn't depend on a screen size. And I've never had to handle the physical keyboard on my Droid any different than the virtual one... that is what the OS is for.
Also, the emulator doesn't take 5 minutes to start even on my POS Pentium D box, and that doesn't matter since you can leave it running and just redeploy as necessary.
What the hell are you doing?
Re: Trinitron
My 19" Trinitron is still running great at 23 years old. It's still my main TV.
Ugh. Shovel that crap on there
To me, that screen is just an annoyance that it didn't go directly to "My Apps"
If Google is going to push their books, why don't they spend time on writing a reader that can display basic things like footnotes, and isn't a usability showcase of horrors?
And of course there's the thoroughly beaten dead horse where Google has an app store where you can't find anything unless you already know the name.
How about policing the hundreds of apps that are simply warmed-over examples from the SDK with a price tag and adware (maybe some malware too) added? Or the couple hundred apps that are a rotating cube with various Playboy copyright violations horribly pixelated onto them? Then perhaps I can take the "contains 450,000 apps" bit seriously.
And if I hack it, can I say I was only playing around?
Fixing it
I remember the days when I'd take my car with ABS to anyone other than the dealer and it was "Nah, can't work on that, I don't have the equipment and it's too much of a liability issue"
And given that I have yet to see a dealership with competent techs...
Re: Trickle, trickle...
It can also get you permanently listed as a sex offender, as a couple local drunk college students discovered.
Earwig
DAMN YOU, EL REG! Now I'm going to be humming "dum-da-da-dum-dum" for the rest of the afternoon. If I get murdered by my cubemates, it's all your fault!
Paris, because I'd like to get a hummer from her, too....
So it has come to this
China is going all Google+ now?
Re: Bendy screens
So what happens if it gets creased? Most of the foldy bendy stuff I've seen dies if it gets a crease, which is probably why it's still in the lab.
Re: Yay - decent stereo headset!
Look for Jaybird JF3 stereo BT earbud style headsets. They're comfy & well-sealed acoustically, at least for me.
Postscript?
For me, the ability to toss the shitty CUPS crap and just run lprng is important, so I want a printer that does Postscript. This also gets around "does my driver/setup know how to handle duplex" too, as PS deals with this natively.
My old Brother HL-5240 does PS just fine and cost <US$120, so it's not a high-end feature.
4square fun
One of the ditzy blonde types posted her apartment as a public place. She also posted a picture of herself in a rather abbreviated top. Then she complained that "creepy strange guys" were checking into her apartment.
Run out of real stories/things to review?
You know, I realized when Creative Computing did a review of Bukka-Bukka Bath Toys that they were not far from going out of business, and sure enough, they only lasted another 4 issues.
I hope this doesn't mean El Reg is circling the drain in similar fashion, as I liked them.
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