* Posts by an_engineer

3 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2011

Pay Jobs due respect - by crushing the empire he created

an_engineer

Contracts

Gates learned how to write those contracts the hard way; he was the other party in a Jack Tramiel contract. The terms of the contract for Commodore BASIC were pretty terrible.

Russia: 'We'll dump the ISS into the sea after 2020'

an_engineer

Zvezda Module

I would like to point out that the Zvezda module was the third module launched to the ISS, and has been in orbit for eleven years. It's one of the core modules of the station. The press notification from NASA is clearly dated 2000.

And frankly, NASA was originally talking about ditching the ISS in the sea in 2015.

SpaceX goes to court as US rocket wars begin

an_engineer

Professional Engineer is a title, but not one I hold

Professional Engineer has a specific legal meaning in the US. It indicates that the engineer has been licensed and can legally sign and seal design documents.

The US Government likes its contractors to have these credentials, but outside of civil engineering most engineers in the US are unlicensed.