JPL is the star of NASA. Other than manned spaceflight, what do the other centers do? Yet 2/3 of NASA’s budget goes into manned spaceflight. Robotic missions are way cool, the technology is revolutionary, and we could do so much more. In the words of someone here: “NASA’s insane.”
Copying with stress, according to NASA.
USC chicken nuggets, reported by the LA Times
Watch this Google video from yesterday on Microsoft’s new voice recognition software. One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while. “Dear aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all.” It’s drawing a lot of comparisons with All your base are belong to us, which is also what I thought it sounded…Continue Reading…
The 50th anniversary of hard-disk storage is coming up in a little over a month. On Sept. 13, 1956, IBM shipped the first hard disk drive. It was the size of two refrigerators, weighed a ton, stored 5 megabytes on 50 spinning iron-oxide-coated disks– and cost $250,000 a year in today’s dollars to lease. Newsweek
In 1990, we had some brand new HP disks the size of a washing machine. Capacity 650MB. Some software was written to move the head assembly from end to end. This would cause so much vibration the the whole machine would “walk” around. The machine room had video cameras, and sometimes if you saw some…Continue Reading…