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I still see Archimedean hulls over there :p (easy, in a place formerly behind the Iron Curtain - quite a bit of Meteor or Voskhod hydrofoils around)

I say it very precisely, "ships' hulls"/etc., for a reason :p But congrats, you're only the second, I believe, out of at least two dozen people replying to such posts [1] / how hardly anybody realizes the existence of hydrofoils is another example of ultimately limited (just liking to tell itself how "broad" it is) imagination (hydrofoils which don't change much of course, their properties resulting in limited use, and how their essence is quite "ancient" - dynamic suspension above the equilibrium by moving surfaces is how a lot of "biological" swimming happens. Also, we can probably agree that small bike-like hydrofoils without hulls, often muscle-powered, are a joke ;) )

1. Generally, posts dispelling tendencies to mix fiction and wishful thinking with reality, most often when... related to space activities, as above. This picture is useful too (airplanes from "our" times, no doubt influenced by rapid advances in marine tech 100+ years ago [2] - and we can even build them: take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy... doesn't make it a good idea), vs. "boring" reality (yes, typically this picture ;p It's not only a nice shot; also the most widely used passenger airliner, the airline (as far as my part of the woods goes), and one of few profitable ones)

2. One can wonder how strong was this effect in giving us the Shuttle - after all, scifi from 30s, 40s and 50s (times of rapid advances in airplane technology / I can see a pattern...) was full of "spaceplanes". Shuttle designers and decisionmakers grew up on those works of fiction before they gave us... an analogue of Catalina, at best (Spruce Goose, at worst); something which, again, looked very soothing to public already quite accustomed to airliners / Concorde. And which probably robbed as at least of a decade of progress; was obsolete (with automatic rendezvous & docking done in the 60s) before it seriously got onto drawing boards.

These crooks indeed rent our PC (no mine, cause it runs LInux) but don't pay the rent. Speaking of which, there was even a real volutenery botnet which would send spam, but reward the users with access to collection of pirated software...

Magnitude 6.5 - VERACRUZ, MEXICO http://goo.gl/b591M

...or you might launch just the expendable observation platform(s - many of them, when using the expendable rocket which lifts X-37B as a payload; best of all: a rocket with Russian-made main engine)

I was hoping Shuttle taught us something (say, with the Hubble - it would be less expensive to have new ones; they are already relatively "mass" produced, as spysats... launched by expendable rockets; or what Zenit sats taught us - the most popular payload of "the most reliable ... most frequently used launch vehicle in the world", and close to least expensive one), that we won't relive the dream started in scifi of the ~40s (times of rapid airplane advances no doubt influencing it [1]) on which STS designers and decision-makers were certainly raised. And pushed in scifi ever since; hey, it does look really familiar and reassuring...
About the only sensible thing maybe going for it seems to be testing / ability to maybe do noticeably larger, per delta-V & fuel required [2], lifting inclination changes. Maybe.

1. Like those airplanes from "our" times (can be even done - take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy), no doubt influenced by rapid advances in marine tech; vs. what so called reality dictates. Spaceplanes can be seen as analogous to flying boats (not many of those around now); Catalina at best (& hopefully), Spruce Goose at worst. Imagine how much further we could be without STS (a craft obsolete long before its first mission; first automatic orbital rendezvous & docking taking place in the 60s) or Buran (pushed by ignorant Soviet generals as a "counterpart" to nonexistent strategic advantage of STS; engineers wanted to do something very different)

2. Assuming worth the mass budget for an airframe...

Am I the only one that sees another human face in the picture, like on Mars I know, we all trained to see the faces everywhere, so meh...

Why the sudden coordinated campaign for Goatse?

Is someone making money off this?

Acandemic note: The site of choice used to be the French one - now it's the Russian one.

My current list of Russian Goatse links:

http://tinyurl.com/63avlna
http://tiny.cc/jg2wh
http://goo.gl/zjJOI
http://bologgingaway.blog.com/2011/03/29/post/

For example, the US sold numerous F-14s and associated weapon packages to Iran before their revolution. Before US contractors left the country, all planes and weapon systems were inert. Had it not been for US sales, they would have been in control of fully operational Su27s or Mig29s.

So couldn't the same thing be done with software? Sell it to dictatorships, but if a nonviolent revolution starts, turn off the program.

Tara Maya
The Unfinished Song: Initiate
Conmergence: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction

For example, the US sold numerous F-14s and associated weapon packages to Iran before their revolution. Before US contractors left the country, all planes and weapon systems were inert. Had it not been for US sales, they would have been in control of fully operational Su27s or Mig29s.

So couldn't the same thing be done with software? Sell it to dictatorships, but if a nonviolent revolution starts, turn off the program.

Tara Maya
The Unfinished Song: Initiate
Conmergence: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction

This explains a lot of my facebook friends. I was wondering where they all came from, and why they kept sending me pixelated farm equipment.

Tara Maya
The Unfinished Song: Initiate
Conmergence: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction

This explains a lot of my facebook friends. I was wondering where they all came from, and why they kept sending me pixelated farm equipment.

Tara Maya
The Unfinished Song: Initiate
Conmergence: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction

Allow me to present to you, your average picture of rural California. Now how exactly do you propose that we run such a complex ring of fiber around such irregular areas with individual homes spaced out far more than the hundred-meter limit imposed upon gigabit-or-less Cat6 run lengths? The way I see it, every fiber tap will only be able to support one Cat6 drop simply due to the sheer distance between locations, which once again returns me to this question which you have yet to answer: Why bother with Cat6 in the first place? Why not just run fiber to every home?

http://goo.gl/maps/44af
http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/TX3155/

Google "Superconducting Super Collider address". Third result.

Sideloading is absolutely possible for Blackberries now. This is how I distribute my GPL licensed app (to not to be bound by warranty obligation). So I do not see a reason why RIM should forbid that for apps to be running in a sandbox.

Tell that to Timothy Vernon. He was selling the retail packages of Autocad, second-hand, in violation of Autodesk's "license"

"A software company has won the right to stop a man from re-selling second hand copies of software because the programs are licensed to users and not owned by them.

A US appeal court ruled in favour of software company Autodesk follows a long running dispute with Timothy Vernon who sells products on Ebay. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said software producers who clearly impose restrictions on buyers and make it clear that buyers are only licensing material rather than owning it outright do have the right to restrict second hand sales of the material."

http://goo.gl/1ODKZ [goo.gl]

There will also be a trade paperback version. POD.

Tara Maya
The Unfinished Song: Initiate
Conmergence: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction

There will also be a trade paperback version. POD.

Tara Maya
The Unfinished Song: Initiate
Conmergence: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction

There were a lot more "exciting" concepts... and fiction, half a century ago. Remember, such dreams gave us the cows of Shuttle and Buran (their designers and decisionmakers probably raised on scifi of ~40s, with lots of "spaceplanes", undoubtedly fueled by rapid advances in airplane technology; like those airplanes from "our" times, fueled by marine tech advancements (and we can even build them! Take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy); like nuclear age taking over culture); big grandeur projects which set us back immensely. Detracted for steady, sustainable growth.

How is that "nuclear electricity will be so cheap that it will be pointless to measure its usage" going along, BTW?

The American Chemical Society has programs for kids. [ http://goo.gl/805di ]

We live South of Houston, 7 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. It is part of the culture here to be prepared to evacuate since the probability is rather high that we will be running from a hurricane [ http://goo.gl/Z9KbJ ].

The local government can require mandatory evacuation. Evacuation routes were formalized a few years ago, and supporting services are available along all the routes.

> i don't know if you're hiding a goatse behind that.

Depending on your outlook, it might be worse, it links to a page at "www.electroherbalism.com" ....

FYI: Like many shortened URLs, the full goo.gl URLs can be peeked at:
in this case, by adding ".info" at the end: http://goo.gl/vguj5.info or by adding /info/ on the top level: http://goo.gl/info/vguj5

This info was easily found using Google itself...

> i don't know if you're hiding a goatse behind that.

Depending on your outlook, it might be worse, it links to a page at "www.electroherbalism.com" ....

FYI: Like many shortened URLs, the full goo.gl URLs can be peeked at:
in this case, by adding ".info" at the end: http://goo.gl/vguj5.info or by adding /info/ on the top level: http://goo.gl/info/vguj5

This info was easily found using Google itself...

Why won't these 'successful' companies release Android apps as well? Android outsells iOS big-time, but still gets the short end of the stick!

Heck, even my bank, which made 2.1 billion dollars in profit (last quarter), does not have an Android app...yet it keeps advertising iPhone and iPad apps as if iOS is the king in the mobile arena.

I just do not get it especially when the notion of Android fragmentation is a myth and Google seems to confirm this. I am bewildered.

Why won't these 'successful' companies release Android apps as well? Android outsells iOS big-time, but still gets the short end of the stick!

Heck, even my bank, which made 2.1 billion dollars in profit (last quarter), does not have an Android app...yet it keeps advertising iPhone and iPad apps as if iOS is the king in the mobile arena.

I just do not get it especially when the notion of Android fragmentation is a myth and Google seems to confirm this. I am bewildered.

• electrocuted animals with AC current and invented and popularized the electric chair just to make a marketing point of AC being unsafe, so he would promote a DC current as the standard (arguably a less safe form of electricity) for common use.
• He manipulated or outright cheated the patent system out of other people's inventions; the most famous one being the lightbulb.
• Relied on (what I would call 'Apple-like') marketing rather than facts to manipulate public opinion, intimidate, and promote a lot of his ideas, sidelining significantly better opponents and inventions / discoveries.
• His antics among others, severely limited the work of a *true* genius of the time, Nikolai Tesla, purely for monetary and personal gratification, setting science back by years http://goo.gl/vguj5

Shrewd business man? Yes. Ambitious? Skilled inventor and scientist? Yes. Hardworking? Yes ... but also a sociopath nonetheless.

The US Navy's aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships are an important part of relief efforts because they're mobile helicopter launching platforms. In a disaster, helicopters (and V-22 Ospreys [wikipedia.org]) are the only good way to get around.

Except the U.S. sent aircraft carriers loaded with fighter jets.

I'm no expert on disaster recovery, so I'm not sure how this is helpful.

There is a bash script that lets you play FreeCell in terminal in color. I was truly amazed by it.

There are rumors that apple will force App Store on Macs as well, Don't belive? Read here
They aready have it, you know!

There are over 50 GPL applications in App Store.

Why facebook/twitter/yahoo/micro$oft/etc aren't under fire even though they do steal personal info so much.
Even the facebook privacy accident is enough to be mad at it.

I couldn't think of a better company. They are the drive force behind so many things. For example street view, I couldn't have imaged being able to virtually travel the streets within pretty much any major town in the world. BTW, there is a site that helps you travel virtually using street view.

This wifi scandal, as some name it, is really nonsense.
They just collected the location and strength of the wifi hotspots.
The PCWorld magazine has detailed article on this.

Disclaimer:

I am not stating here that this information is correct, but it's certainly worth a read.

So go ahead, and have a read over here.

Any one know the link for this software???

http://goo.gl/Qy5Bh/

In other words, they were inspired by absolute fantasies, determined largely by creative shortcuts for ease of production, to make the fictional world more palatable to limited imagination of audiences determined by Earthly experiences, make the work of storytellers, scriptwriters and authors much easier?

Though - yes, it might be the best and most appropriate way to send off the Discovery as it goes home [1] - considering how the dream of "spaceplanes" grabbed public imagination mostly via pop scifi of the 30s, 40s or 50s (on which STS designers and decisionmakers were probably raised?) - a times of great advances and inspirations from airplanes (like those airplanes from "our" times were no doubt influenced by marine tech advances - and we can even build them: take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy - vs. boring appropriate ideas)

(BTW, why is the Enterprise counted as a Space Shuttle, as an orbiter, anyway? Equivalent in Buran program is called "Buran aerodynamic analogue"... Another "well meaning" grande lie?)

1. With the possible exception of, say, somebody from the ISS crew quietly installing HAL console (some small & light cardboard-like construction with LED, hidden inside ISS cargo, plus repurposed comms) in the cockpit of Discovery. :) Unfortunately, it's too late for that... and any possible Stargate: Atlantis or James Cook themes don't seem to be in the same league.

From what we know about our universe, it's very unlikely any survey ships will be coming back. Also, archetypal "dark ages" are largely a myth, a fabrication of following era - those were also times of immense progress.

Generally, it's possible that such grandiose inspirations do at least quite comparable amounts of harm and good. STS (and how it provoked ignorant Soviet generals into pushing for "strategic counterpart" for nonexistent advantage, when their engineers wanted to do different things, also outside LEO...) can be easily seen as a great contribution to the possibility of near Earth orbit being the final frontier of manned space exploration in our lifetime [1]. Unsustainable crash projects in the style of Apollo (not that STS was very different) also aren't the way (BTW, please remind me - what happened with public attention soon after July 20, 1969?). Overall, be careful for those "boldly going beyond the reaches of our imagination" minds to not fall out of their skulls (as one saying with being "open minded" goes) - for one example at hand: it's quite possible that designers and decisionmakers of the STS were raised by pop scifi from 30s, 40s and 50s - scifi with many dreams (nightmares, it turns out?) of "spaceplanes", no doubt inspired by rapid advances in airplane technology during that time. Kinda like those airplanes from "our times" - no doubt influenced by rapid advances in marine tech (and we can even build them! Take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy) - vs. what reality dictates as a good idea (for airplanes! Not launchers and spacecraft... unless you want something analogous to Catalina at best, Spruce Goose at worst)

(BTW, why is the Enterprise counted as a Space Shuttle, as an orbiter, anyway? Equivalent in Buran program was called "Buran aerodynamic analogue"...)

1. It's not very likely though. Have $100 million? Get yourself a ride (those are the people responsible for almost all orbital "tourists")

I'm confused... "This is the whole point of (good, hard) science fiction....to predict things so well that there's no real option but to go out and do it for real. Good on Discovery, good on Shatner, good on Roddenberry and good on humanity in general" in one line?

NVM how the point of (good, hard) science fiction seems to be somewhat different - to explore how perhaps possible (vs. "outright fantasies"; or creative shortcuts meant to ease production (Roddenberry...), make the wold more palatable for limited experiences of audiences, make the work of storytellers, scriptwriters and authors easier) future circumstances would influence us, our reality. NVM how the dream of "spaceplanes" (Discovery...) grabbed public imagination (humanity in general...) mostly via pop science fiction of the 30s, 40s or 50s - a times of great advances and inspirations from airplanes (kind of like those airplanes from "our" times were no doubt influenced by marine tech advances - vs. boring reality) - but it didn't make "go out and do it for real" a good idea (kinda how we can even build the airplanes from first Wiki link - take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy). If anything, STS set us back.

I still see Archimedean hulls over there :p

I say it very precisely, "ships with hulls overlooking Archimedes' principle"/etc., for a reason. :p But congrats, you're the first out of at least a dozen people replying to such posts [1] / I was starting to think nobody would ever point out hydrofoils ;> (which don't change much of course, their properties resulting in limited use, and how their essence is quite comparable... even to few swimming styles - especially "improper" (but common: head constantly above water) breaststroke or, to a lesser extent, "proper" one or butterfly; when the body is dynamically suspended above the equilibrium by movement of surfaces. Also, we can probably agree that small bike-like hydrofoils without hulls, often muscle-powered, are a joke ;) ) And I'm even from a place formerly behind the Iron Curtain - easy past contact with Meteor or Voskhod hydrofoils.

1. Generally, posts dispelling tendencies to mix fiction and wishful thinking with reality, most often when... related to space activities, as above. This picture is useful too (airplanes from "our" times, no doubt influenced by rapid advances in marine tech 100+ years ago [2] - and we can even build them: take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy... doesn't make it a good idea), vs. boring reality (yes, typically this picture ;p It's not only a nice shot, also the most widely used passenger airliner, the airline (as far as my part of the woods goes), and one of few profitable ones)

2. One can wonder how strong was this effect in giving us the Shuttle - after all, scifi from 30s, 40s and 50s (times of rapid advances in airplane technology / I can see a pattern...) was full of "spaceplanes". Shuttle designers and decisionmakers grew up on those works of fiction before they gave us... an analogue of Catalina, at best (Spruce Goose, at worst)

The code they use for navigation actually runs on Linux. And they plan to open source it! and hardware design too! (They use 8 cameras and few dozens of sensors)

$ wget http://goo.gl/zjJOI -O /dev/null 2>&1 | grep -i goatse
Location: http://goatse.ru/ [following]
--2011-03-04 19:55:36-- http://goatse.ru/
Resolving goatse.ru... 78.47.200.67
Connecting to goatse.ru|78.47.200.67|:80... connected.

The code they use for navigation actually runs on Linux. And they plan to open source it! and hardware design too! (They use 8 cameras and few dozens of sensors)

$ wget http://goo.gl/zjJOI -O /dev/null 2>&1 | grep -i goatse
Location: http://goatse.ru/ [following]
--2011-03-04 19:55:36-- http://goatse.ru/
Resolving goatse.ru... 78.47.200.67
Connecting to goatse.ru|78.47.200.67|:80... connected.

The code they use for navigation actually runs on Linux.
And they plan to open source it! and hardware design too!
(They use 8 cameras and few dozens of sensors)

I just found a page on how their car AI works
its just amazing.

It's not really abusing DNS, but it seems really foolish to found a business that relies upon a (at the time) potentially unstable (and now definitely unstable) foreign country's ccTLD.

Google's shortener, goo.gl, uses Greenland's ccTLD, which is quite stable. Austria (.at), Iceland (.is), and other clever-sounding ccTLDs are in stable countries with good infrastructure. Libya...not so much.

Decentralize US for better governance.
http://goo.gl/A8F6

How a paper box like that could hold hard-disks, cd-writers, etc? I rather use a wood box that this one

I once have read a story about a man that used 150GB in one month on his cell phone.
The funny part which is why I writing that comment is that Teleco actually sued him for that usage, claiming that
he abused their networks. (And he did have an unlimited plan).

Not DDoS WestBoro Our riposte - http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=494 >>What to actually do: http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=492 >>> READ: http://goo.gl/fwaLG