I am not surprised in the slightest. I mean if you have a bunch of smart, highly motivated people it sounds like keeping the crazy man at arms length is the kind of thing they’d organise very effectively.

NASA is clearly capable of things given the right circumstances and budget.

Absolutely agree with this but there is no denying the innovation levels at spacex are higher (I’m not saying this is down to musk specifically. The man is a horror story of a human).

We were all in total awe when seeing booster stages land themselves successfully for the first time. It was such a giant leap forward and to the best of my knowledge no government funded space agency was even considering it before spacex.

Good God. That was very unsettling to watch. Imagine actually thinking that’s an appropriate response to valid concerns about healthcare cuts.

Just one more lane bro. Just one more.

Ah the naming was terrible in fairness… Windows millennium edition and windows 2000. I mean c’mon like. Haha.

And yeah I was gone by SP2 but I remember my gaming friends holding tight to that for as long as they could. There were even various really lightweight editions of SP2 that you could download if you had the balls to install a hacked together operating system from some randomer on the internet. And they all did.

Different times!!

Edit: also what’s up Dave on the far side of the world!

I think you might be confusing Windows ME with 2000.

Windows 2000 was built on the Windows NT kernel which was business focused so absolutely rock solid.

Windows 98 was a good jump in stability from the 95 kernel bit still very prone to crashing.

I agree XP was good but it was the successor to 2K so built on it and I moved to Linux as soon as the 2K directx support would have forced me to move to XP which wasn’t as lightweight.

For clarity there were two development branches within Microsoft at the turn of the millennium: one that was based off windows 3.1 (and became 95, 98 and ME) and one that was based off windows NT 3.1 which was solid as fuck and eventually became 2000 then XP.

Edit: Here’s a decent graphic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions#/media/File:Windows_Version_History.svg

Done. Good luck.

Windows 2000. I feel like that’s reasonable. It was honestly pretty solid kit.

If you think it doesn’t impact Europe or European politics I think maybe you need to peek through the hand you have over your face in that emoji. Various countries have recognised Palestine, had their Israeli diplomats removed etc.