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It looks like they don't have a common scene to spend $740 million, when the USA outsource software to India and almost every tiny hardware manufacturing to China 
Based on your link one interesting thing which I found out was NASA Choosing Atlas 5 Rocket to launch new mars orbiter. And the total launch service itself costed $187 million.
Quote: Each Atlas V rocket uses a Russian-built RD-180 engine burning kerosene and liquid oxygen to power its first stage and an American-built RL10 engine burning liquid hydrogen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V[^]
http://www.space.com/9392-nasa-chooses-atlas-5-rocket-launch-mars-orbiter.html[^]
modified 24-Sep-14 20:17pm.
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yes we agree that Govt. needs to concentrate to improve our hardware manufacturing
Sankarsan Parida
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Way to answer a different question!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: "Are we alone in the universe?"
No, your are cruising with curiosity[^] 
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"As missions go, Maven represents a Mercedes 'S' class to the Volkswagen that is MOM*," Pillai wrote. Linky[^]
There, now you know why it cost more!
*Mars Orbiter Mission, also known by the acronym MOM or the Hindi word Mangalyaan ("Mars-Craft")
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The lack of quality manuals and documentation for developer tools greatly diminishes our ability to work well in subtle but important ways. Where's The Fine Manual?
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In the movie Good Morning, Vietnam, Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) says "Yo, Sparky!"
MeThinks we need to change that up a bit to: Yo, Sharkey!
Eh, @Kent-Sharkey?!
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hmmm, well I have been known to be snarky
TTFN - Kent
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In this study, we use the largely untapped research potential of Rosetta Code, a code repository of solutions to common programming tasks in various languages, to draw a fair and well-founded comparison of some programming languages. Your champion, for 40 years running...
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I believe it. But concise code and performance aren't my top criteria. I would like to see comparison on maintainability and readability. Then again, those are quite subjective aren't they.  
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'struth
I do think that Ruby would come up high on that again - it's remarkably readable code IMO. (And Perl would be locked in a box, wrapped in chains, and thrown into the ocean).
Doesn't mean it's perfect for every situation of course.
TTFN - Kent
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Good site that - I have bookmarked "ISAAC" and will be dropping it into one of my projects tomorrow.
On the other hand, since most of the reference code is in C first then translated into other languages some of the power of those other languages is lost. None of the C# examples seem to use the Task Parallel Library for example...
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That's an interesting analysis; but I'm surprised that they found Java programs to be shorter than C# equivalents. Java's always felt more verbose to me, especially compared to newer version of .net. Has anyone looked at the rosettacode samples to have an idea why?
Also, the conventional wisdom is that Java's supposed to be somewhat faster to run than C#; and since I've seen that claim on an MS slide deck earlier this year (ranked languages from slow to develop but high performing to fast development but poor performing and put java between C# and C++) I'm reasonably confident about the correctness of conventional wisdom here.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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igPa atinLa is-a e-tha est-ba anguage-La. arBa one-na.
AssPa e-tha aconBa, easePla.
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Microsoft today launched the Microsoft Online Services Bug Bounty Program, offering security researchers rewards for submitted vulnerabilities. Coming soon: Microsoft declares bankruptcy
Urgle. Another URL mangled. Going to do these old-school today: http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/09/23/microsoft-launches-online-services-bug-bounty-program-includes-office-365-rewards-starting-500/
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Urgle. Another URL mangled.
Known issue - see http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4909092/Wrong-link.aspx
/ravi
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Ah, thank you. So glad it's not just me.
Wait, that's not really what I meant, but at least it will get fixed now.
TTFN - Kent
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Bug #0: I installed Windows.
Bug #1: I installed MS Office.
.....
Bug #176,284,305: Many, many, many years later, and I'm still using MS products...
But, hey, I'll be freakin' richer than Bill Gates, now!
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The free JetBrains Student License replaces the discounted Academic License for all IDEs and .NET Tools products. Just in time for back-to-school
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They've not the ability for homeschool students (my kids) and teachers (moi) to be able to use these products under the education banner. 
Sent 'em a request to open it to homeschooler(s) who do not have a .edu domain-based email address.
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That would be an excellent addition - or you could print up a few "International Student Identity Card" for you facility 
TTFN - Kent
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Er, we're not exactly "International" in that we're U.S.-based.
*BUT*, I am going to be teaching an Int'l student starting in 2 weeks.
Guess I'll need to make some ISIC cards after all ...
 ... just as long as I don't incorrectly label them ISIS or ISIL! 
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As it turns out, that is a very difficult question to answer. I’ll get to that, but first, let me explain why I asked the question the way I did. That has to be the longest 'dunno' I have seen (all week)
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Quote: What is the value only enterprise IT can make?
Well, many large enterprises are so complex that IT provides the only meaningful model that exists of the enterprise. Certainly it is the only model that can be submitted to any form of what-if analysis. (Certainly, if the CIO is worth that exciting sounding "more money" alluded to in the article then that should be the case)
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Microsoft has today confirmed via an event in France that "Windows 9", the next major version of the company's operating system is coming soon. Oh no, he didn't. Lalalala, not listening. NT4 Workstation has everything I need.
Site doesn't like my URLs today: http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-publicly-confirms-windows-9-coming-soon
modified 23-Sep-14 14:39pm.
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