I couldn't comment of the budget figures. But usually with international projects the project is required to spend the budget in-line with contributions it receives from it's members. So if the USA contributes 9 1/6 % of the budget, then the project has to buy 9 1/6 % of it's stuff from the USA. This usually adds a whole load of management overhead, along with making sure different stuff from different countries all works together. This, the delays, and that it is cutting edge science usually results in spiralling budgets and timescales.
The biggest winner in international projects tends to be the host country, as they end up with a load of boffins spending their pay in the area where the project is located. But everyone involved in the project benefits, after all the money doesn't just disappear, it is spent on employing folks to do things.
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist, although the general concept is much older. The observation has also been called "Davis' law" or just the "journalistic principle".
Would having wireless carriers be dumb pipes really be so bad?
Not as far as I'm concerned. The sooner the carriers work out
where the future is taking them, the sooner they can change
their 'investment' in phone branding to improving their network infrastructure.
Not exactly everyone but you. I'd guess anyone, like me,
who blocks almost all Javascript is going to find an improvement in it's execution speed fairly irrelevant.
I don't know how BeOS was engineered to achieve this, I only know that no other OS I used during and since then, achieved this sort of responsiveness.
Fine grained multi tasking, and avoiding mutexs. I think
BeOS uses message passing to implement inter process
communications. In engineering terms, it is the most
modern desktop operating system.
I fail to see why NOT having one (a command line) is good?
It is difficult to get a buffer overflow exploit to
run the command line interpreter, when the operating
system doesn't have a command line interpreter.
The closest it got to the Sun was when it was built on
earth (1 AU). After launch and the Jupiter swing by,
the closest it gets to the Sun (perihelion) is 1.4 AU.
It then heads back out towards the orbit of Jupiter
at @5 AU. The unique part of Ulysses orbit, is that is
out of the ecliptic plane, allowing the craft to look
at the Sun's poles.
Solar power doesn't work too well, once you get outside the
orbit of Mars. Unfortunately, Ulysses needs more power for
heating the further it gets away from the Sun, which is
when solar power delivers less power.
It's difficult to keep one end in the dark and the other
in the light, as Ulysses is spin stabilised, and keeps the
high gain antenna pointed at the earth. The
Radio Isotope Generator uses thermocouples to generate power from a heat difference.
NASA also provided the Radio Isotope Generator. Almost all of the data from the Spacecraft comes via NASA's Deep Space Network,
rather than via ESTRACK.
It's possible that import restrictions aren't necessary,
if the labels are correct. But if the consumers don't want
GM food, then Bayer might find it doesn't have a market
for it's rice in Europe.
If I remember correctly the European Space Agency's mission control system (processes the spacecraft telemetry, on the ground) is open source. Currently they are using SCOS-2000. But the best a quick search came up with was via this article on XMM.
Why shut it down when you could give it to someone else? I'm sure there is another country, company, or group who would be willing to take control of these space craft and gather data if NASA is now bored with the operation.
First find another organisation with the required
antennas. I think Voyager II is far enough away to need 34 or 72 metre dishes. For twenty four hour coverage you'll need three spread across the globe. The good news is that networking them together should be cheaper now, than when NASA originally built the Deep Space Network. Then you'll need to equip and man those groundstations.
FWIW, the European Space Agency has one 34 metre dish at New Norcia with another being built at Cebreros near Madrid.
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The writers of the Halide app also went into this:-
One Weird Trick to Lose Size.
If only there was a law to regulate all this data collection. Maybe we could call it the General Data Protection Regulation.
I'm not sure how much longer Pelamis will be around:-
Wave power firm Pelamis calls in administrators
I couldn't comment of the budget figures. But usually with international projects the project is required to spend the budget in-line with contributions it receives from it's members. So if the USA contributes 9 1/6 % of the budget, then the project has to buy 9 1/6 % of it's stuff from the USA. This usually adds a whole load of management overhead, along with making sure different stuff from different countries all works together. This, the delays, and that it is cutting edge science usually results in spiralling budgets and timescales.
The biggest winner in international projects tends to be the host country, as they end up with a load of boffins spending their pay in the area where the project is located. But everyone involved in the project benefits, after all the money doesn't just disappear, it is spent on employing folks to do things.
How does Comcast's DNS look like when tested by namebench?
Does it find the same problem?
Betteridge law of headlines applies:-
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist, although the general concept is much older. The observation has also been called "Davis' law" or just the "journalistic principle".
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
XKCD Standards
That's great, they even have a picture of Fabian Mohn putting the atom to be imaged into the scope:-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/6807218837/in/set-72157629144258045
:-)
Why is "Europe's Spaceport" in South America? Isn't that South America's Spaceport?
"Europe's Spaceport" is in Kourou, in French Guiana. Which is a French colony in South America.
Would having wireless carriers be dumb pipes really be so bad?
Not as far as I'm concerned. The sooner the carriers work out where the future is taking them, the sooner they can change their 'investment' in phone branding to improving their network infrastructure.
Not exactly everyone but you. I'd guess anyone, like me, who blocks almost all Javascript is going to find an improvement in it's execution speed fairly irrelevant.
Fine grained multi tasking, and avoiding mutexs. I think BeOS uses message passing to implement inter process communications. In engineering terms, it is the most modern desktop operating system.
It is difficult to get a buffer overflow exploit to run the command line interpreter, when the operating system doesn't have a command line interpreter.
The European Space Agency had a press conference about the end of Ulysses on Thursday. Brief note and audio feed. Longer press release.
The video the Ulysses Legacy has a great summary of the mission, and of the problems it now faces.
The closest it got to the Sun was when it was built on earth (1 AU). After launch and the Jupiter swing by, the closest it gets to the Sun (perihelion) is 1.4 AU. It then heads back out towards the orbit of Jupiter at @5 AU. The unique part of Ulysses orbit, is that is out of the ecliptic plane, allowing the craft to look at the Sun's poles.
Solar power doesn't work too well, once you get outside the orbit of Mars. Unfortunately, Ulysses needs more power for heating the further it gets away from the Sun, which is when solar power delivers less power.
It's difficult to keep one end in the dark and the other in the light, as Ulysses is spin stabilised, and keeps the high gain antenna pointed at the earth. The Radio Isotope Generator uses thermocouples to generate power from a heat difference.
NASA also provided the Radio Isotope Generator. Almost all of the data from the Spacecraft comes via NASA's Deep Space Network, rather than via ESTRACK.
You can still run it on the latest Intel x86 chips. ;)
What no OpenVMS analysis?
Food containing GM products must be labelled as such in Europe:-
GM Labelling
It's possible that import restrictions aren't necessary, if the labels are correct. But if the consumers don't want GM food, then Bayer might find it doesn't have a market for it's rice in Europe.
FWIW Cern is in Switzerland, just outside of Geneva. Although the LHC ring is large enough to cross the border into France.
If I remember correctly the European Space Agency's mission control system (processes the spacecraft telemetry, on the ground) is open source. Currently they are using SCOS-2000. But the best a quick search came up with was via this article on XMM.
There's more on this in Nasawatch's Personnel News Archive.
Why shut it down when you could give it to someone else? I'm sure there is another country, company, or group who would be willing to take control of these space craft and gather data if NASA is now bored with the operation.
First find another organisation with the required antennas. I think Voyager II is far enough away to need 34 or 72 metre dishes. For twenty four hour coverage you'll need three spread across the globe. The good news is that networking them together should be cheaper now, than when NASA originally built the Deep Space Network. Then you'll need to equip and man those groundstations.
FWIW, the European Space Agency has one 34 metre dish at New Norcia with another being built at Cebreros near Madrid.
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Offtopic, my arse.