Memorial Day Weekend Open Thread

For the first time, a cargo-carrying spacecraft made by a private company arrived at the International Space Station.

SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft was captured by the space station's 58-foot robotic arm by astronaut Don Pettit aboard the space station. The linkup took place about 250 miles above northwest Australia at 6:56 a.m. PDT.

The cone-shaped capsule was grappled to the station’s arm after three days of circling the Earth. NASA is now determining when the spacecraft should dock with the station and when crew should unload the half-ton of cargo, water and clothes.

SpaceX, officially known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is the first private company to embark on such a mission. Up until now, sending a spacecraft to the space station has been a feat that has only been accomplished by four of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced governments: the United States, Russia, Japan and the European Union.

Remember those fought for our freedoms!!!

:) Now installing windows 7 on a 120 gb ssd I bought today. My laptop has 2 bays for drives so im using the ssd for os, hdd for data.

Jazz my old friend,
How are you? welcome back to the forum. I was afraid you had moved on when bbr was down for a couple of weeks. Good to see you still around!! We wish for you guys a good Memorial Day weekend also!! Enjoy.

It now boots up in less then 8 seconds from off to desktop, shuts down in 5 seconds.

I had to reinstall windows using my win7 pro disc, install drivers for the laptop and programs all over again. Also do tons of updates.

I bought this one at bestbuy using my rewardzone points.
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···20167093

I would wait for one to go on sale. The one in a computer I just built, I got it for $100 on sale. It was a 120gb ssd. It was a OCZ, intel always seems to be expensive but mine has a 5 year warranty vs OCZ 2-3 year warranty.

Just plugnplay for me.

I just finished my first of two vacations. May 6th - May 25th in Puerto Rico visiting family and now from May 25th - June 6th in Ft. Walton Beach, FL to visit my other family . After returning home on June 6th, I'll relaxing and getting back to Pacific time until I go back to work Monday the 11th.

Just my own personal experience, 20+ years @ govt. agency--8 weeks of leave each year.

The leave policies were generally better because the salaries were lower than you could get for similar jobs in the private sector.

Just moved into a new home recently, still getting the network connected to the ethernet jacks (got the wireless working the first night- )

In this part of the country (New England), we have a very sandy and rocky soil composition. I was mowing the lawn yesterday and the mower shot a rock at me that grazed the top of my head. I immediately stopped mowing and I went to Lowe's and bought a face shield. It also said to use safety glasses in addition to the face shield.

I am wearing both a face shield and safety glasses when mowing from now on.

Safety is important. That is why I hire the neighbor kid to cut my lawn.
And if he is injured, well that is why I have homeowners insurance.

Went fishing with my dad and caught some bass.

God Bless our current active servicemen, our veterans and us all! USA ROKS! USA, USA, USA! Whoot whoot!

5TH

God Bless our current active servicemen, our veterans and us all! USA ROKS! USA, USA, USA! Whoot whoot!

5TH

The chief executive of the multi-billion pound Lloyd's of London has publicly admitted that the world's leading insurance market is prepared for a collapse in the single currency and has reduced its exposure "as much as possible" to the crisis-ridden continent.

Richard Ward said the London market had put in place a contingency plan to switch euro underwriting to multi-currency settlement if Greece abandoned the euro.

In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph he also revealed that Lloyd's could have to take writedowns on its £58.9bn investment portfolio if the EuroZone collapses.

Europe accounts for 18pc of Lloyd's £23.5bn of gross written premiums, mostly in France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

Just wait until the entire student loan industry implodes here, Guessing that will make AIG look like chicken lips.

NBCOlympics.com will live stream every single event (they'll even be on YouTube, and in the UK the BBC has its own plans) for the first time ever including streams of each of its channels, encompassing 3,500 total hours and the awarding of all 302 medals. The bad news is that if you're not a cable subscriber, many of those hours will not be available to you, and even if you are, you're looking at a (likely convoluted) authentication sign-in process.

Also new for the internet are multiple streams for the same event, so for example, viewers can select a particular gymnastics apparatus or track and field event at will.

On mobile devices, NBC also has plans for two different apps on phones and tablets, with one that brings live video streams and another with highlight clips. It didn't specify what platforms they would be available for, but we'd assume the usual suspects (iOS, Android) will be first up.

For the full breakdown of all 5,535 hours of coverage across NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, Telemundo and everything else check out the press release after the break

»www.nbcuni.com/corporate/newsroo···olympics