It would be sad and ironic, however the shuttle couldn't be a permanent part of the station. Whilst docked at the station, it does draw power from the Station via the STSPTS but most things the shuttle takes care of by itself whilst docked and its lifetime in space (even with the power transfer system) is limited to about 28 days. Sure, this could be extended but within a short amount of time, the shuttle systems would seize up and it would be uninhabitable. Plus the ISS changes aspect (when the shuttle is docked to protect the shuttle's heat shield) so there are lots of reasons it would just be easier to dump the shuttle into a reentry trajectory and have it disposed of that way. It would be a nice permanent addition though (and I'm sure it's gone through people's minds at NASA).
Pedant. It's obvious that they mean "but never before in actual photos from close-by with detail". You'd have also gained better kudos if you'd used this image: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070628.html
You must have been thinking of Mir. This is the first time that a shuttle has been photographed attached to the ISS from space. There have been several stunning ones from the ground though, like this one taken a few years ago when the ISS was smaller:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070628.html
Even if someone asks for AAAA records and gets them, if the path is not configured all the way down to them not much is going to happen.
Yes, this was partly the point of IPv6 day. It's not just large websites who are supposed to get involved. It's everyone. The idea was that everyone had some kind of target date to aim at to get IPv6 capable from vendors of websites to carriers to ISPs rather than just lagging around waiting for everyone else to do it.
Unfortunately, it's not turned out to be quite as planned and a lot of carriers and ISPs haven't bothered and we're still stuck with IPv4 for the forseeable future until we really REALLY run out of addresses and the ISPs realise that people are migrating to newer ISPs with IPv6 connectivity (like AAISP in the UK) and have their hand forced.
Getting the majority of websites to run IPv6 is the first hurdle, otherwise no-one would have anything to browse on the new shiny internet. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation, but IPv6 day was supposed to get both the chicken and the egg to play together to make a nice new expandable omelette for us all to enjoy. Hmmm, not a great analogy.
Not true. A recent episode (it was either the living flesh one or the pirate one) had the Doctor unlocking locked door by sliding back the bolt on a wooden door with the sonic screwdriver.
Fortunately, they spend their budget on useful things like tests and building the thing rather than, you know, proof-reading and presentation. Not everyone's first language is English.
"but I think it's pretty obvious that WebM is destined for the same place as VESA and HD-VHS landed. Nice idea..... not adopted by the general public."
The public have no idea about graphics formats, nor do they give a crap.
If google were to make a ton of source code examples in everything from C to Visual Basic to Lisp or DOS showing how to read, write and save, and make many free programs to do conversion, then programmers might start using them.
Of course its google, and they rarely do things like that right.
So you are probably right, its going to die.
Even if Google made source code available for it for the whole world in all the languages conceivable, you still need to get people to generate images in it. Even if ever image generation/modification software had the option to save to WebP, the vast majority of users would still save the images to JPEG because (as we have discussed above) they don't give a crap about image standards and they know what JPEG is and that it works. They won't care if another format is ever-so-slightly-better and will stick with what they know.
Until the a large proportion of uneducated users (and I'm using this term to mean uneducated-about-image-standards, not general uneducation) start saving images in WebP format it will remain a 'niche' and has the possibility to go to the place with VESA and HD-VHS, regardless of how many browsers can read it.
so can a laptop, pc... thats not the point, the point is using an Apple device (locked down by manufacturer) to use it to serve files. like using a toaster to fry an egg
Instructions for using a toaster to cook an egg (ok, I can't figure out how to fry it without ruining the toaster).
Place egg balanced over bread slot on toaster. Push lever down without bread in it. Once the 'nothing' pops up, rotate egg 180 and repeat to cook other half of egg. Done.
But seriously, this got a link on the front page of slashdot because it's apple and no other reason. As mentioned, DD-WRT can do the same and routers are locked down by manufacturers in a similar fashion. It's just because it's apple that people go "Wow!".
"Man takes photo of something cool" doesn't make a headline on slashdot.
"Man takes photo of something cool with iPhone" does.
The classification C. elegans is short for Caenorhabditis elegans(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_elegans). You would normally only abbreviate the genus if you have already written it in its full form (thus first mention should be of Caenorhabditis elegans and all further mentions can be C. elegans. TFA does this, but the summary should mention Caenorhabditis elegans first before launching into abbreviations.
I just heard this lunchtime that when they installed the new radar equipment on the top of Portsdown hill (Just outside Portsmouth - if you live close, the big blue buildings with the radar on Portsdown hill) they attached the motors only and had it turning for 2-3 weeks before any radar emitters were turned on. They got umpteen complaints from local residents during that period that the 'new radars' were interfering with their TV and causing 'bad reception'. All these phone numbers got logged as time-wasters for subsequent public complaints!
This is just further proof that security through obscurity is a myth.
Unfortunately, you can boil the entirety of information theory to 'security through obscurity'. Airplay uses public key encryption and is in that sense 'secure'. Everything that needs to read the encrypted content (in this case the airplay device) needs to have the key to decrypt it. Thus you can argue that the whole system is 'security through obscurity' because it is relying on the 'obscurity' of the private key that the end-user can't get access to (unless the pry it open with a butterknife and dump the ROM).
I've probably experienced the same result. I'm in the UK and every time I open a Gizmodo page, it doesn't display the right one (probably what you folks are experiencing). If I close that tab (I open new links in new tabs whilst browsing/.) and then open it again, it displays the correct page. Refreshing the page doesn't work - you have to close and re-open. I have no idea what the monkeys in charge of Gizmodo are doing but this may help those of you who can't find TFA.
As I recall, they put Spirit into hibernation for the Martian winter.
Not quite. Spirit put itself into hibernation at the start of the martian winter with the lower light levels and dust buildup on her solar panels. She's yet to come out of this hibernation (and may never)
Then why bother putting it in a museum? Throw it away and make a wooden replica to put there or stick with Enterprise. The whole point of putting stuff like this in a museum is because it's real
It's more that the shuttles had a limited lifespan. They are old. The airframes are only rated for so much before they get mechanical weaknesses in the airframe and they just become too dangerous to fly. The longer we keep aged vehicles flying, the more chance they have of failing during flight and giving us another Columbia. The shuttles are already flying beyond their original lifespan. After a certain point, mechanical fatigue means you have to replace major parts of the airframe, essentially building a new orbiter.
This is not just about the cost of keeping them running. It's about not unduly putting the lives of those who fly in the shuttles in jeopardy - replacement or no replacement.
You, The Pirate Bay, ISOHunt or anyone else does not have the right to deny them that attempt to make money OFF OF THEIR PROPERTY.
By your same argument, the UK ISPs do not have the right to deny TPB, ISOHunt or anyone else going about their own practises and not making money for it. They created works (in this case, a compendium of information about where data is in EXACTLY the same way that Google/Yahoo!/Bing generate money from compiling information) and are disseminating it - in this case, for free as they do not make profit (side arguments about ad revenue is a topic I really can't be arsed to care about)
Some people went on more than one mission, so it's not as easy as 9*3.
Turns out that I got it wrong anyway. There were only 24. 12 landed on the moon (Apollo 11-12, 14-17). 14 Went to the moon without landing (Apollo 8, 10-17 with 3 on 8, 10 and 13 and 1 on 11-12, 14-17). I added those two together to get to 26 but forgot that Young and Cernan were in both lists (Young on 10 and 16, Cernan on 10 and 17).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Astronauts
There shouldn't be much 'decay' in geostationary orbit. Its not like there is atmospheric drag like you get in LEO
No, there isn't. What's happened with this drift is that the non-uniformity of the Earth's mass distribution creates a non-uniform gravitational field. This, combined with perturbations from the moon's orbit (and even other gravitational bodies such as the Sun and Jupiter) means the orbit is not a perfect predictable ellipse and it shifts slightly over time. Consequently, its period become slightly more or slightly less than the 23h, 56m, 4s rotational period of the Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_day). This causes it to drift either ahead or behind in its orbit
And anyway how do they expect to refuel them? Do they have a cap that can open automatically to put a nozzle in? Does it work in the vacuum and cold of space?
The Hubble was designed to be refueled and serviced in orbit, but I didn't think the geostationary ones were.
Yeah, I also had that thought. Maybe they foresaw this situation and put fuel caps on them?
Intelsat's Galaxy 15 satellite was successfully rebooted in December and is responding to commands and no longer interfering with other satellites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_15
Yes, you need fuel to move the vehicle around. Without propulsion thrusters and these station-keeping manoeuvres, perturbations in the gravitational field of Earth and other solar system objects will cause the satellite to drift from its orbit.
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It would be sad and ironic, however the shuttle couldn't be a permanent part of the station. Whilst docked at the station, it does draw power from the Station via the STSPTS but most things the shuttle takes care of by itself whilst docked and its lifetime in space (even with the power transfer system) is limited to about 28 days. Sure, this could be extended but within a short amount of time, the shuttle systems would seize up and it would be uninhabitable. Plus the ISS changes aspect (when the shuttle is docked to protect the shuttle's heat shield) so there are lots of reasons it would just be easier to dump the shuttle into a reentry trajectory and have it disposed of that way. It would be a nice permanent addition though (and I'm sure it's gone through people's minds at NASA).
Pedant. It's obvious that they mean "but never before in actual photos from close-by with detail". You'd have also gained better kudos if you'd used this image: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070628.html
You must have been thinking of Mir. This is the first time that a shuttle has been photographed attached to the ISS from space. There have been several stunning ones from the ground though, like this one taken a few years ago when the ISS was smaller: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070628.html
Even if someone asks for AAAA records and gets them, if the path is not configured all the way down to them not much is going to happen.
Yes, this was partly the point of IPv6 day. It's not just large websites who are supposed to get involved. It's everyone. The idea was that everyone had some kind of target date to aim at to get IPv6 capable from vendors of websites to carriers to ISPs rather than just lagging around waiting for everyone else to do it.
Unfortunately, it's not turned out to be quite as planned and a lot of carriers and ISPs haven't bothered and we're still stuck with IPv4 for the forseeable future until we really REALLY run out of addresses and the ISPs realise that people are migrating to newer ISPs with IPv6 connectivity (like AAISP in the UK) and have their hand forced.
Getting the majority of websites to run IPv6 is the first hurdle, otherwise no-one would have anything to browse on the new shiny internet. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation, but IPv6 day was supposed to get both the chicken and the egg to play together to make a nice new expandable omelette for us all to enjoy. Hmmm, not a great analogy.
Not true. A recent episode (it was either the living flesh one or the pirate one) had the Doctor unlocking locked door by sliding back the bolt on a wooden door with the sonic screwdriver.
Fortunately, they spend their budget on useful things like tests and building the thing rather than, you know, proof-reading and presentation. Not everyone's first language is English.
"but I think it's pretty obvious that WebM is destined for the same place as VESA and HD-VHS landed. Nice idea..... not adopted by the general public."
The public have no idea about graphics formats, nor do they give a crap. If google were to make a ton of source code examples in everything from C to Visual Basic to Lisp or DOS showing how to read, write and save, and make many free programs to do conversion, then programmers might start using them. Of course its google, and they rarely do things like that right. So you are probably right, its going to die.
Even if Google made source code available for it for the whole world in all the languages conceivable, you still need to get people to generate images in it. Even if ever image generation/modification software had the option to save to WebP, the vast majority of users would still save the images to JPEG because (as we have discussed above) they don't give a crap about image standards and they know what JPEG is and that it works. They won't care if another format is ever-so-slightly-better and will stick with what they know.
Until the a large proportion of uneducated users (and I'm using this term to mean uneducated-about-image-standards, not general uneducation) start saving images in WebP format it will remain a 'niche' and has the possibility to go to the place with VESA and HD-VHS, regardless of how many browsers can read it.
so can a laptop, pc... thats not the point, the point is using an Apple device (locked down by manufacturer) to use it to serve files. like using a toaster to fry an egg
Instructions for using a toaster to cook an egg (ok, I can't figure out how to fry it without ruining the toaster). Place egg balanced over bread slot on toaster. Push lever down without bread in it. Once the 'nothing' pops up, rotate egg 180 and repeat to cook other half of egg. Done.
But seriously, this got a link on the front page of slashdot because it's apple and no other reason. As mentioned, DD-WRT can do the same and routers are locked down by manufacturers in a similar fashion. It's just because it's apple that people go "Wow!".
"Man takes photo of something cool" doesn't make a headline on slashdot. "Man takes photo of something cool with iPhone" does.
The classification C. elegans is short for Caenorhabditis elegans(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_elegans). You would normally only abbreviate the genus if you have already written it in its full form (thus first mention should be of Caenorhabditis elegans and all further mentions can be C. elegans. TFA does this, but the summary should mention Caenorhabditis elegans first before launching into abbreviations.
...and dog poop dispensers (no kidding)
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't a dog-poop dispenser just a dog?
I just heard this lunchtime that when they installed the new radar equipment on the top of Portsdown hill (Just outside Portsmouth - if you live close, the big blue buildings with the radar on Portsdown hill) they attached the motors only and had it turning for 2-3 weeks before any radar emitters were turned on. They got umpteen complaints from local residents during that period that the 'new radars' were interfering with their TV and causing 'bad reception'. All these phone numbers got logged as time-wasters for subsequent public complaints!
This is just further proof that security through obscurity is a myth.
Unfortunately, you can boil the entirety of information theory to 'security through obscurity'. Airplay uses public key encryption and is in that sense 'secure'. Everything that needs to read the encrypted content (in this case the airplay device) needs to have the key to decrypt it. Thus you can argue that the whole system is 'security through obscurity' because it is relying on the 'obscurity' of the private key that the end-user can't get access to (unless the pry it open with a butterknife and dump the ROM).
I read TFA before it got slashdotted. The summary is the entire blog entry. Nothing more to miss.
"Some say it has failed in that latter category".
Some say that it succeeded in the category of mass-enabling of piracy at fantastical new speeds.
I've probably experienced the same result. I'm in the UK and every time I open a Gizmodo page, it doesn't display the right one (probably what you folks are experiencing). If I close that tab (I open new links in new tabs whilst browsing /.) and then open it again, it displays the correct page. Refreshing the page doesn't work - you have to close and re-open. I have no idea what the monkeys in charge of Gizmodo are doing but this may help those of you who can't find TFA.
As I recall, they put Spirit into hibernation for the Martian winter.
Not quite. Spirit put itself into hibernation at the start of the martian winter with the lower light levels and dust buildup on her solar panels. She's yet to come out of this hibernation (and may never)
Then why bother putting it in a museum? Throw it away and make a wooden replica to put there or stick with Enterprise. The whole point of putting stuff like this in a museum is because it's real
It's more that the shuttles had a limited lifespan. They are old. The airframes are only rated for so much before they get mechanical weaknesses in the airframe and they just become too dangerous to fly. The longer we keep aged vehicles flying, the more chance they have of failing during flight and giving us another Columbia. The shuttles are already flying beyond their original lifespan. After a certain point, mechanical fatigue means you have to replace major parts of the airframe, essentially building a new orbiter. This is not just about the cost of keeping them running. It's about not unduly putting the lives of those who fly in the shuttles in jeopardy - replacement or no replacement.
You, The Pirate Bay, ISOHunt or anyone else does not have the right to deny them that attempt to make money OFF OF THEIR PROPERTY.
By your same argument, the UK ISPs do not have the right to deny TPB, ISOHunt or anyone else going about their own practises and not making money for it. They created works (in this case, a compendium of information about where data is in EXACTLY the same way that Google/Yahoo!/Bing generate money from compiling information) and are disseminating it - in this case, for free as they do not make profit (side arguments about ad revenue is a topic I really can't be arsed to care about)
Some people went on more than one mission, so it's not as easy as 9*3. Turns out that I got it wrong anyway. There were only 24. 12 landed on the moon (Apollo 11-12, 14-17). 14 Went to the moon without landing (Apollo 8, 10-17 with 3 on 8, 10 and 13 and 1 on 11-12, 14-17). I added those two together to get to 26 but forgot that Young and Cernan were in both lists (Young on 10 and 16, Cernan on 10 and 17). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Astronauts
I would imagine so. The only humans that have been up to GEO have been the 26 Apollo astronauts who went past it on the way to the moon.
There shouldn't be much 'decay' in geostationary orbit. Its not like there is atmospheric drag like you get in LEO
No, there isn't. What's happened with this drift is that the non-uniformity of the Earth's mass distribution creates a non-uniform gravitational field. This, combined with perturbations from the moon's orbit (and even other gravitational bodies such as the Sun and Jupiter) means the orbit is not a perfect predictable ellipse and it shifts slightly over time. Consequently, its period become slightly more or slightly less than the 23h, 56m, 4s rotational period of the Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_day). This causes it to drift either ahead or behind in its orbit
And anyway how do they expect to refuel them? Do they have a cap that can open automatically to put a nozzle in? Does it work in the vacuum and cold of space?
The Hubble was designed to be refueled and serviced in orbit, but I didn't think the geostationary ones were.
Yeah, I also had that thought. Maybe they foresaw this situation and put fuel caps on them?
Intelsat's Galaxy 15 satellite was successfully rebooted in December and is responding to commands and no longer interfering with other satellites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_15
Yes, you need fuel to move the vehicle around. Without propulsion thrusters and these station-keeping manoeuvres, perturbations in the gravitational field of Earth and other solar system objects will cause the satellite to drift from its orbit.
It's 14/3 here you insensitive clod!