Perhaps the parent poster didn't intend to offend, and just wanted to pass along some personal information? It's hard to tell. To be clear, this type of gender-based ban is rediculous.
A brief search on this shows there's a much more balanced information out there. Here are some interesting snips from a CS Monitor article on Tereshkova.
She actually solved the first big problem in her flight: On the first day, the ship's autopilot mistakenly steered her away from Earth, leaving her facing the prospect of being lost in space.
After her trip, the Soviet space program canceled any future trips for women, and indeed, Tereshkova remained the only woman to go to space for almost two decades. In 1982, the Soviets launched a second woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, and the next year, America sent up Sally Ride. Since then, 48 other American women have gone to space, but only one other Russian: Yelena V. Kondakova, in 1994.
> She actually solved the first big problem in her flight: On the first day, the ship's autopilot mistakenly steered her away from Earth, leaving her facing the prospect of being lost in space.
The Cristian Science Monitor is an excellent source of information on the Soviet space program, but the autopilot malfunction was exactly what triggered Tereshkova's meltdown. It took considerable effort for the Control Center to make her calm down and follow the instructions to reset the autopilot. She was by and large unfit for the mission and she ended up in space only because Soviet Union needed to launch a woman into orbit.
From what I understand my grandafather's friend was a part of the launch crew, so it's not exactly "dad's dad's friend + rumor", but here you go anyways, courtesy of Wikipedia -
В космос Терешкова слетала. Это потрясающая, мужественная
женщина, но ведь она не выполнила ни единого своего задания!
Ее тошнило в космосе, она теряла сознание, мне Королев
рассказывал. Тогда же при мне он сказал: «Пока я жив, ни
одна женщина в космос больше не полетит». И двадцать лет
наши женщины не были в космосе.
Kamen has demonstrated a great talent for generating media coverage of his products - think back to the incredible level of media attention around launch of "It"... which turned out to be the segway. If he's working on a new product, expect a similar level of media engagement.
There's a good book about development and launch of the segway "CODE NAME GINGER: The Story Behind Ginger and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World"[1]. It's in paperback as "Reinventing the Wheel: A Story of Genius, Innovation, and Grand Ambition"[2]. It also has some interesting coverage of what happened inside the company during that time.
Really neat that you've updated this. One issue: The graphs of grey bars on white background have very little contrast even in different browsers on a nice monitor. The old version of the calculator has much more color contrast between the graphs and background and doesn't have this issue.
Two Ivy League universities, Brown University and Princeton University, do not have business schools. Princeton is home to the Bendheim Center for Finance, which specializes in quantitative finance and offers an undergraduate finance certificate and the masters in finance degree.
Edit: The article correctly states that those two individuals are pursuing Master's Degrees in Finance at Princeton. (Photo caption is incorrect though.)
"Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering.[13] It does not have schools of medicine, law, divinity, education, nor business, but it does offer professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance."
This is a GREAT book about the SR-71. I'm submitting since there are so many posts on this topic recently. It's unfortunately out of print, but I'd encourage anyone who enjoyed the recent posts on the SR-71 to look for this in the local library ( I know who does that anymore! ).
Could someone explain how this is built or give an overview of how it works? In the 'about' page http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/100000-stars/ it says WebGL and CSS3D, but I'm wondering how they fit together and what does what.
Is there a better way to view the source than just 'view source' in chrome?
I know a number of programming languages and I'd like to learn more about how this project works. [Saw the link to book on graphic programming in other comments below http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/index.html, but how to "take apart and study" this project? ] Kudos to anyone who can point me in the right direction. Thanks!
Perhaps the parent poster didn't intend to offend, and just wanted to pass along some personal information? It's hard to tell. To be clear, this type of gender-based ban is rediculous.
A brief search on this shows there's a much more balanced information out there. Here are some interesting snips from a CS Monitor article on Tereshkova.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0614/First-woman-in-sp...
She actually solved the first big problem in her flight: On the first day, the ship's autopilot mistakenly steered her away from Earth, leaving her facing the prospect of being lost in space.
After her trip, the Soviet space program canceled any future trips for women, and indeed, Tereshkova remained the only woman to go to space for almost two decades. In 1982, the Soviets launched a second woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, and the next year, America sent up Sally Ride. Since then, 48 other American women have gone to space, but only one other Russian: Yelena V. Kondakova, in 1994.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/science/space/sally-ride-t...