Software, The Internet, and The One Man Show - Novelr - Making People Read

Software, The Internet, and The One Man Show - Novelr - Making People Read: "March 28, 2009 – 5:29 am

Panic Software ProductsBefore the Internet, software companies plied their wares through brick-and-mortar stores, in handy little diskette drives the size of folded pocket-handkerchiefs. It was a smaller industry, back then - Microsoft was still getting a start in IBM’s god-forsaken armpit, Apple had yet to discover the GUI, and almost everyone was working with a command line interface. It was also a simpler time. It wasn’t too hard for a well-placed, lone programmer to whip up some fancy app and pass it on - via diskettes, perhaps, with a healthy dose of door-to-door spit - and land himself a nice contract at some new-fangled, pre-bubble Valley startup. And that was, for a few years, enough to live by."

Building a 1,000 mph car | Richard Nobles builds another car to set a world land speed record at over 1,000 mph | Machine Design

Building a 1,000 mph car | Richard Nobles builds another car to set a world land speed record at over 1,000 mph | Machine Design: "Building a 1,000 mph car

March 3, 2009

Stephen J. Mraz

Designing a car to go 1,000 mph is a constant lesson in compromise.
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When it comes to world land-speed records, few people are as experienced and successful as Richard Noble, a Scotsman who has been directly involved in two record-breaking cars, Thrust2 (633 mph) and Thrust SSC (763 mph or Mach 1.02, the current record). So it should come as no surprise that he’s right in the middle of a project to develop a new land-speed record-setting car, the Bloodhound. And he hopes the Bloodhound will make a quantum leap over the current record, taking it to over 1,000 mph."

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