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Huh? The Enterprise can be called a Shuttle if you leave out the word "Space". :) It was a prototype that only ever launched on the back of a 747. The original operational shuttles were Columbia and Challenger. As James said, subsequent craft have more payload capacity (I believe they are lighter).

That would be Enterprise. It was used as a proof of concept test vehicle and was never equipped for spaceflight. Columbia was one of the original shuttles, making its first flight in 1981.

September 7, 1990 - Part of a U.S. Titan rocket falls from a crane and explodes at Edwards Air Force Base, sending flames 150 feet (45 metres) into the air and killing at least one person.

The ice-laden isulation has already been ruled out. I'm still betting on a breakdown in tile bonding - possibly precipitated by the insulation striking the wing - and predicted for some time now. The fact that the shuttle skin is corroding under the tiles is not comforting ...

Whoops! I can't count - it is 17. :oops: Although you haven't included US ground personnel killed (admittedly few). I found a further nine Soviet deaths in a subsequent accident at Plesetsk due to the same flawed valve design - but then surely that's not the point? This started because The...

Order of magnitude? Give me a break! I'd certainly heard of the incident where about 100 people were killed. Perhaps you should read what happened: On October 24, 1960 the Soviet Premier, Nikita S. Khrushchev was boiling mad. Two launches to Mars on the 13th and 15th of October had failed...

I discovered that An Unnecessary War sums up my views rather well:

They're on tour in Australia ... I guess they might be home again by now. :)

It must be fairly arduous, commuting from home to Australia each day?

The Australian Senate just passed a motion of no confidence in the country's prime minister. This has no legal ramifications because he doesn't have a minority government, but is nonetheless indicative of how the citizenry view his enthusiastic support for the US Administration's plans of...

It's worth noting that the Russian supply craft is a robot. Obviously their software's pretty good. And I agree with The Giver about preferring a Soyuz capsule as a ride home - particularly as I suspect this disaster was due to a tile bonding failure that could afflict all the Space Shuttles.

They used to come from different manufacturers!

Yes. AFAIK, sinusitis sets in with the combination of increased discharge and poorer drainage resulting from inflammation - but it would be really great to hear Adcadet expand on this, because exactly the same thing happens to me. :(

I'll second Mercutio's opinion on the Apple. It actually fits my idea of a desirable laptop (all laptops are flawed - it's important to remember this). I have a friend with a Titanium, and he is still extremely happy with it after a year or so (except it could be a little faster). Of course, it...

You can't make things true by simply saying them. Some coherent logical reasoning wouldn't go astray, not to mention adherence to facts. For example, the "No-Fly" zones have nothing to do with the UN. Of course, the US may yet reveal something (anything) that shows Iraq is still a genuine...

It used to work, once upon a time ... It never takes anywhere near that long. :( RPN rules! Just one? I think my first was circa 1975. :eekers:

Some letters to the editor in The Sydney Morning Herald of February 4 2003: Here we are, more than a decade after the first Gulf War, and we can all sleep a little better knowing what a great democracy Kuwait has become. Simon Mann Why are Germany and France so opposed to this attack on Iraq...

The shuttle cost more than the train.

Whoops, I meant Tennessee folk, obviously (I'm almost ready to concede my need for glasses :()

:o Are all Texans like this? :wink:

Hmmm, I didn't mean to imply that Blake (or anyone else here) is an apologist for the richest corporation on Earth. I'm just in a bad mood. :evil: Sorry. :(

It's not debatable - how many courts have to say this before M$ apologists quit? It's true their OS efforts have made a great contribution - to their coffers. Until WinNT 3.51 they were just a horrible joke (CAS may plump for a much earlier version), and ignoring platform incompatibility, they...

Mine's not there either. :x

I haven't had a crash with Opera 7 since the first beta. When I find a decent skin for it, I will probably buy it. You STILL can't print HTML emails with its mail client, however. :(

Slackware, then Palm OS after I changed a few responses. I agree with James that there weren't enough options. ;)

Not. :-?

You can see from their website that the AMI BIOS hasn't been maintained like the Award version. In any case, just download the latest Award and the corresponding flash utility. AFAIK, the "part number does not match" message can be ignored (in this instance!). I tried this with an earlier HX...

I dunno about that - what about Office, or even Windblows itself?

I also enjoyed the Internet Economy Bullshit Generator ... :)

Flat Tax = Flat Earth. 8) No offense to Doug, but I think it's an indication that the soundbite mentality is becoming all-pervasive in our society. Politicians no longer bother repudiating an argument with logic. Clocker, if public schools adopted full user-pays principles, they would be...

Stereodude, Do you think it's fair to compare a $200 monitor with an $800 one? You are comparing two different screen sizes - it's reasonable to assume that anyone would prefer a larger screen. If you were already running 1600x1200 on your LG, you were pushing it beyond what it is capable of...

Check out the winner of the inaugural PITS (Pie In The Sky) award. :o The actual URL contains illegal quote characters, so you'll have to select 'Pie In The Sky' from this page: http://www.asic.gov.au I notice that the names James and Jason feature in the runners-up. :wink:

I'll let you know when I think an LCD monitor is up to the standard of the midrange CRT monitors I can buy for peanuts. Bluntly, I could really use a slimline monitor here right now, but so far they're not even close - and I don't think we're that fussy. I believe in digital audio and video...

Huh? I guess you mean sharing inputs with outputs?

I'm probably out of touch here, but don't you need the Pro version of PM 8 to copy partition images? DriveImage or DriveCopy (also from PowerQuest) are designed explicitly for this. Tea, you should have received copies of DriveImage (PQDI) with various Soltek motherboards. It's a reliable...

I like DP Review, and the other sites can be useful, but I wouldn't want to live or die on their reviews. Everyone has their own little foibles, a bit like SR trying to find differentiating benchmarks for hard drives. I even take issue with DP Review's emphasis on black and white line...

I'll second that. It's like a breath of fresh air when you breeze in. :)

You can also see mounting points on the FIC for Epox's longer USB socket. And there's provision for an additional chip which is under the second PCI slot on the Epox. With the diagnostic readout in particular, it's almost impossible not to believe that this is an Epox design.

http://www.steinberg.net/en/ct/products/audio_editing/clean_pc/index.php?sid=0 $40 I haven't yet used it, but I might even be interested in buying a couple of the 'pro' packages (which include a phono preamp) if you can find 'em.

Check the features of the paid version of Wave Repair.

Unfortunately, I think you underestimate the power of beancounters and the incompetence of management. They'll quite happily save cents now even if it means spending dollars later. :(

In case anyone didn't read this in our news section: Following a US court's clearing of ElcomSoft of DMCA infringments (the "Free Dmitry" campaign stemmed from the alarming arrest of a Russian programmer visiting the US), a Norwegian court has acquitted the author of DeCSS on all charges...

Wave Repair has a freeware mode that includes full recording functionality, including clipping detection.

It's interesting to read the other links on that BBC page, including the one about the unwanted wine lake in Beaujolais. While Australia's exports to the US continue to increase, I don't think they will have the same problem. Australia already matches France in wine exports to the UK, so so...

I used a few DFI boards back in the days of the HX chipset (Pentium). Some of the features, such as CPU overheating alarm and shutdown, were pretty impressive by the standards of the day. Socket 370 was introduced to support PGA Celerons (366MHz+). The chipsets at the time were Intel 440ZX (and...

Slo, you might care to read this: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~idoru/cons/absinthe.html

The last published statistics I can find show Australia as the fifth largest exporter of wine in 2000, just barely behind the US. However, this has been improving strongly every year, so presumably Australia became number four in 2001. Mind you, Spain exports nearly three times as much, and...

Any stability problems were not down to Via. I say again, KT133 worked just fine. Not as fast as KT133A, not as overclockable, but still perfectly usable. KT133A implementations were more mature and had less compatibility issues. From Paul's Unofficial ABIT KT7A-RAID FAQ: KT7A/KT7A-RAID...

KX133 ruled for only six months or so because Via was incredibly slow releasing it. Slot A was widely available for at least 12 months, thanks to AMD 750. Unstable!? WTF? It ran just fine, and still does. It just didn't overclock very well when compared to the 'A' version, although 15% was...