What an inspiring role model for the next generation. I bet that in 40 years' time that kid's telling their grandchildren the story... "Yes, I never will forget old Mrs Wilkins, heh! heh!"
There are enough suppliers to make a global cartel impractical, despite OPEC and other organisations' attempts to try. As to the price elasticity of oil demand, whilst undoubtedly low in the very short term, in the medium and long terms my betting is that it's going to prove greater than you anticipate. Time will tell of course. If it's not, I have a feeling it's going to be a good century for arms suppliers.
If the price is rising then clearly the gap between supply and demand is growing. As supply increases steadily over time, an acceleration of the rate of increase of the oil price clearly indicates a bifurcation point has been reached.
I grep'd that from a script I found somewhere on the net that pulls the ram, starts mplayer to dump the stream as a wav, then uses oggenc to convert it to ogg. I get the.ram URL by reading the source of the "listen again" player. It ends up in ~/radio/, modify the file paths & params to taste (you may want to automate filenaming, for instance, to prevent it stomping over downloads of earlier editions of the same program.)
Of course, pointy-haired-bosses are going to start reading about the inevitable IPv4 address-space exhaustion in in-flight magazines a couple of years before this date (which is 2011 IIRC) and will be banging on your door demanding to know what you're going to do about it well before. You want IP6 experience on your CV a long time before that happens.
Thanks, I nearly choked on my afternoon tiffin. (I realise it's not quite 4pm, but we believe in early tiffin over at Cally Towers. I means we can start on the Christmas port without worrying about sun / yard arm triangulation *)
Because Johnny Foreigner doesn't pay the TV license fee. Yes, my stunned American friends, we UK-ers have to have a government license to legally watch TV or listen to the radio! We tend to think it's fair exchange for the fantastic programmes they've given us over the years, though, not least Blake's 7 of course;)
Wow, that is damncool... thanks for the tip, I think I might have to go get meself a DVB card now. Hmmm, anyone know if there's similar raw-data access to DAB?
rip the stream like what the Real stream can be ripped? (Yes I'm talking radio, it's Radio Four Boy here and without being able to rip I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, as I've been doing for the last few years, having migrated from the Mark II Compact Cassette Tape that worked so well throughout the 80s and 90s, life ain't gonna be worth living.) Samantha agrees - the wow and flutter of older technology is a real turn-off, although she does enjoy flicking through some favourite flash videos.
Bush needs to read the constitution, which requires the US government to get a warrant before collecting information on any of these things. Demonstrably false, alas:(
Yes, I know,.. see, the thing is, I regard discussions as discussions, not football games. Just because I draw attention to a weakness in one person's comment doesn't mean I'm supporting the other side. (You'll have to picture the annoying quotation marks around "supporting" and "other side", yourself....)
If you want to avoid food riots, y'all need to give up on the evil, unhealthy and environmentally disastrous policy of eating bits of cows and pigs every day. I'm a crap vegetarian, which means I give in to cravings once a month or so and have a ham & cheese sarnie or a pepperoni pizza, but (a) I feel sick as a dog for the next 36-48h, (b) my conscience nags me (c) I remember Arizona Bay, and (in the words of the song) then I just smile...
Yes,.. yes of course, that's right -- why, and it's all so obvious to me now you've explained it. The plural of 'anecdote' IS data, after all! Thanks for clearing that up.
The MER missions are just absolutely astonishing, and will stand out as legendary for as long as humans are exploring the solar system. January 4th 2008 will be the fourth (terrestial) anniversary of Spirit's landing, with Opportunity's on the 25th. With a design lifetime of 90 Sols now exceeded by, what is it now, twelve times? Thirteen?, dozens of hugely important and significant discoveries, movies of dust devils, and the incredible (and incredibly obscure, it seems!, anywhere outside places like UMSF...) There are a few hundred so-called "amateur" image maestros out there who've been poring over hot monitors and pouring out onto the net incredible unoffical mosiacs and panoramas stitched from the almost-raw, multi-wavelength raw data,.. Steve Squyres and Jim Bell and indeed the rest of the team insisted on an unprecedently fast and open dumping of all the image data to the net literally as it comes off the Deep Space Network. Thanks to (I believe) Perl, it all gets piped out to public access sites at the same time as they go to JPL and Cornell. Someone's even written a fantastic dedicated application that mirrors the archived data and builds on-the-fly panoramas... check out the screenshots, you'll see what I mean! (Sadly, despite being Java, it doesn't work on Linux for some reason.)
Best of all about this is that it demonstrates once again that UNmanned spaceflight has just as many technology spin-offs as the manned variety... and if you get 5$% of the results for 1% of the outlay and almost infinitely less risk to human life, there's just no point sending humans.
Please see what a real physicist thinks of this. Riiiight... because Lee Smolin's a dilettante who fiddles around with a perpetual motion machine in his garage at the weekend.
Mars Science Laboratory currently being built for a launch in 2009 is looking to cost around $1.8 billion USD (a little over a billion Euros, IIRC). I I just took a look at the 5y euro:dollar chart to check the rates -- I hadn't realised it was quite so drastic. $1 now gets you less than 70 eurocents, so $1.8 billion == EUR 2.6 billion.
You're correct. The rocks where Opportunity is are mostly soft sedimentary sandstones. Spirit's got lots of volcanic basalt. Hence one RAT is (was) still grinding whilst the other, isn't.
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It's faith-based aerospace... as in, when you launch, you pray it doesn't go boom.
You're new round here, right? Microsoft pwns the PC vendors. They push Vista, or they get the hose.
well, bless my soul but you appear to be right. Wikipedia says that the radio, sorry, wireless license was abolished in 1971. The bastards!! :>
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What an inspiring role model for the next generation. I bet that in 40 years' time that kid's telling their grandchildren the story... "Yes, I never will forget old Mrs Wilkins, heh! heh!"
There are enough suppliers to make a global cartel impractical, despite OPEC and other organisations' attempts to try. As to the price elasticity of oil demand, whilst undoubtedly low in the very short term, in the medium and long terms my betting is that it's going to prove greater than you anticipate. Time will tell of course. If it's not, I have a feeling it's going to be a good century for arms suppliers.
If the price is rising then clearly the gap between supply and demand is growing. As supply increases steadily over time, an acceleration of the rate of increase of the oil price clearly indicates a bifurcation point has been reached.
I grep'd that from a script I found somewhere on the net that pulls the ram, starts mplayer to dump the stream as a wav, then uses oggenc to convert it to ogg. I get the .ram URL by reading the source of the "listen again" player. It ends up in ~/radio/, modify the file paths & params to taste (you may want to automate filenaming, for instance, to prevent it stomping over downloads of earlier editions of the same program.)
I think peak oil already happened mate. Where've you been for the last ten years?
Of course, pointy-haired-bosses are going to start reading about the inevitable IPv4 address-space exhaustion in in-flight magazines a couple of years before this date (which is 2011 IIRC) and will be banging on your door demanding to know what you're going to do about it well before. You want IP6 experience on your CV a long time before that happens.
Thanks, I nearly choked on my afternoon tiffin. (I realise it's not quite 4pm, but we believe in early tiffin over at Cally Towers. I means we can start on the Christmas port without worrying about sun / yard arm triangulation *)
I completely agree; I didn't mean to suggest that the "UK only" policy's a good idea. Sorry if it sounded that way.
Wow, that is damncool... thanks for the tip, I think I might have to go get meself a DVB card now. Hmmm, anyone know if there's similar raw-data access to DAB?
...and does
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile $outfile.ra $thestream
rip the stream like what the Real stream can be ripped? (Yes I'm talking radio, it's Radio Four Boy here and without being able to rip I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, as I've been doing for the last few years, having migrated from the Mark II Compact Cassette Tape that worked so well throughout the 80s and 90s, life ain't gonna be worth living.) Samantha agrees - the wow and flutter of older technology is a real turn-off, although she does enjoy flicking through some favourite flash videos.
Yes, I know,.. see, the thing is, I regard discussions as discussions, not football games. Just because I draw attention to a weakness in one person's comment doesn't mean I'm supporting the other side. (You'll have to picture the annoying quotation marks around "supporting" and "other side", yourself. ...)
If you want to avoid food riots, y'all need to give up on the evil, unhealthy and environmentally disastrous policy of eating bits of cows and pigs every day. I'm a crap vegetarian, which means I give in to cravings once a month or so and have a ham & cheese sarnie or a pepperoni pizza, but (a) I feel sick as a dog for the next 36-48h, (b) my conscience nags me (c) I remember Arizona Bay, and (in the words of the song) then I just smile...
Yes,.. yes of course, that's right -- why, and it's all so obvious to me now you've explained it. The plural of 'anecdote' IS data, after all! Thanks for clearing that up.
Best of all about this is that it demonstrates once again that UNmanned spaceflight has just as many technology spin-offs as the manned variety... and if you get 5$% of the results for 1% of the outlay and almost infinitely less risk to human life, there's just no point sending humans.
OK, less tenuous is still tenuous.
You're correct. The rocks where Opportunity is are mostly soft sedimentary sandstones. Spirit's got lots of volcanic basalt. Hence one RAT is (was) still grinding whilst the other, isn't.