Words and pictures from Silicon Valley by Chris Gulker
This artist’s conception shows the Orion spacecraft, foreground, approaching the International Space Station. Orion is remarkably like the Apollo system that took astronauts to the moon almost 40 years ago – it will even be launched from expendable rockets. The avionics will be new, it seats 6 on low earth missions, but does not seem to be a great leap forward in manned space operations, IMHO…
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First VMWare goes IPO, now the open source XenSource is acquired. VM is clearly the wave of the future…
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This just in: NASA probably won’t fix the gouge. There’s a risk a spacesuited astronaut could cause more damage by bumping into the tiles while trying to repair the gouge…
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The New York Times’ David Leonhardt reminds us of two Columbia professors named Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd, and their notion of ‘value investing.’Â Warren Buffett took their class, worked for their firm and then set out to make his billions using their notions. Leonhardt thinks investors today, by focusing on the long term, could do much better. I’ve never made any money short term in the market: buy and hold has been my only successful strategy…
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