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I hope they also sought such permission from the families of the two Afghan soldiers who also died and unlike the photographer are actually IN the picture.The photos were published with the permission of the Clayton family.
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Ah, here you go, a sincere gentleman, brokering a deal, with an honest foreign dignitary.
Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
Open Rights Group - Is your site being blocked
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Online Censorship
The Linux Foundation - Let’s Encrypt
Check if your Email account has been pwned
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Online Censorship
The Linux Foundation - Let’s Encrypt
Check if your Email account has been pwned
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John we have a report that Micro Wave antenna SPVLCA65 @ Bear creek rd. signal is failing . We need it checkout ASAP
John reports. Found the probable cause
John reports. Found the probable cause
Mass Effect: Andromeda may be the last ME game we ever see--the team that made it has been broken up and the series put on indefinite hold:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... ut-on-Hold
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... ut-on-Hold
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I feel like this is completely the wrong lesson to take from what happened to Andromeda...pjknibbs wrote:Mass Effect: Andromeda may be the last ME game we ever see--the team that made it has been broken up and the series put on indefinite hold:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... ut-on-Hold
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A message to all the expert coders on the forum, NASA needs your help!
Can anyone here help?Nasa is seeking help from coders to speed up the software it uses to design experimental aircraft.
It is running a competition that will share $55,000 (£42,000) between the top two people who can make its FUN3D software run up to 10,000 times faster.
The FUN3D code is used to model how air flows around simulated aircraft in a supercomputer.
The software was developed in the 1980s and is written in an older computer programming language called Fortran.
Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
Fortran?
Yuck....
Nasa have bucket loads of outdated and slow software they are still using. I wrote my own version of one of their tools I declined to use when I was an undergrad, and bettered it easily with just a few months work.
That *prize* wouldn't be considered a decent enticement for a consultant, so I hope they're offering more than just the money aspect.
Yuck....
Nasa have bucket loads of outdated and slow software they are still using. I wrote my own version of one of their tools I declined to use when I was an undergrad, and bettered it easily with just a few months work.
That *prize* wouldn't be considered a decent enticement for a consultant, so I hope they're offering more than just the money aspect.
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Well, to be fair you two would not be asked because:
I have been told the odd American does use this forum too...
So:The sensitive nature of the code means the competition is only open to US citizens who are over 18.
I have been told the odd American does use this forum too...
Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
I wouldn't want to write any code for NASA even if I could, I don't like they way they operate as an organisation.
I've worked with them in academia in the past, and it wasn't easy. You have to jump through far too many secrecy loops for far too little gain.
They need to modernise in a BIG way.
In fact I was offered the chance to do my Ph.d with them, working on the Mars Rover program, but declined the offer without hesitation. Unless you are a US citizen it is virtually pointless.
I've worked with them in academia in the past, and it wasn't easy. You have to jump through far too many secrecy loops for far too little gain.
They need to modernise in a BIG way.
In fact I was offered the chance to do my Ph.d with them, working on the Mars Rover program, but declined the offer without hesitation. Unless you are a US citizen it is virtually pointless.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. ... Niccolò Machiavelli
The call for coders experienced in Really Old Languages has been going out from NASA for years/decades. All the old coders are dying off and they have some legacy systems that they just can't change. Lesson's learned, I suppose - Don't launch a computer you can't do a low-level update on... Then again, imagine if they tried to upgrade something and missed a bug - Oops, guess we need to send a tech out to one of the Voyagers! Gonna be an expensive house-call.
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Backround: He is suing facebook to get rid of pics like this one.
Backround: He is suing facebook to get rid of pics like this one.
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