Starbucks is going to know who was in their store at a specific date and time.
Do they know who was sitting in an SUV two miles away with the funny-looking camper shell on top -- the one that doesn't look quite big enough to sleep in, but is plenty big enough for a 12-element 2.4 GHz Yagi?
*Well actually there isn't any room for voodoo with analog signalling either, and you can either measure differences in analog signal quality on a scope or it isn't there too.*
Actually an oscilloscope is good for about 40 or 50 dB of dynamic range, while your ears are good for around 100 dB. So you can indeed hear distortion in a sine wave before you'll notice it on an oscilloscope display.
The same is not true of a high-end FFT analyzer, of course.
Usually they are required in production environments, not for your home HDTV.
Rest assured, nobody spends $1000 on a video cable in a production environment unless there is something very unusual about that cable, such as being 100 feet long.
That's the real irony behind high-end audio... do those morons think the stuff they're listening to with their $5000 power cables was recorded that way?
*My parents were swindled out of a $50k deposite on a home by a businessman who bankrupt his business three separate times, each time personally making off with large sums of money.*
Of course, there's something to be said in favor of due diligence when putting down $50k deposits. Your parents should have done due diligence, but didn't. The government has no incentive to even try... after all, it's not their money.
This would be the same "international audience" that we periodically have to save from some other part of the "international audience" because nobody but the Americans and the bad guys are comfortable around weapons. Right?
We do a lot of things that aren't easy. Putting over a billion transistors on a chip the size of a stamp and doing almost a trillion calculations per second with them isn't easy. Extracting enough energy to run a city from a few glow-in-the-dark rocks isn't easy. Even ordinary air travel requires continuous hard work from a large number of highly skilled people to perform efficiently and safely. None of these things are 'solved problems,' yet we still do them, and we get better at them over time.
Rocket science may be a difficult endeavor, but that's no excuse for it to become less reliable over time.
Really? Do yo have any idea how hard it is to actually manage launching something like that in to space? We should be more amazed when everything goes right and a rocket actually makes it there.
The only reason that commercial air travel is as safe as it is, is because nobody listened to your grandpa when he said the same thing in 1912.
Arduinos are for retards. They're for all the people who seek validation being able to get LEDs to blink without knowing any annoying facts like operating voltages. The Raspberry Pi, however, is a BASIC stamp. That means that the real money-makers, the ones who know microcode, get back to work.
OK, WTF, time out. Can someone please explain this strange new trend of trolling with the intent of making yourself look stupid? I think it started on either 4chan or Fark, but it's been showing up here a lot lately. When I learned to troll, I was taught that the idea was to make the other guy look stupid.
Kids these days. Personally, I blame the excessive use of psychoactive prescription drugs in our schools.
His main point is that we are running this country in a much too centralized manner, so EVERYTHING becomes applicable to EVERYONE in the United States.
There are two problems with Ron Paul: one, he is religiously motivated, and two, he seems just crazy enough to be sincere about it.
Certain things should be applicable to "EVERYONE in the United States," as you put it. Among them are educational opportunities. In Ron Paul's ideal society, a child attending public school in Oklahoma City will learn one thing in science class, while a child in Seattle learns something very different.
Making that happen is very important to the so-called "religious right" in the US. Keeping it from happening is very important to everyone in possession of two or more brain cells. So: no RONPAUL!!! for me, thanks. His idea of "libertarianism" is just the same old schtick of trading one liberty for another.
This is just a recapitulation of what happened when wireless tech was ramping up in the first few decades of the 20th century. The patent wars were nasty, brutal, and long enough to put an entire generation of lawyers' kids through college.
Nothing changed. It won't change this time, either, because there are more lawyers at the controls of the US government today than there ever have been.
Generically building a filter in that frequency range with those specs is impossible, but building the device to that exact frequency spec and stable over any temperature range makes it even more impossible
And that's a big part of the problem as well. GPS is first and foremost a precision timing application, and high-Q bandpass filters and phase stability/tempco do not mix.
So what can humans do in space that robots can't, besides waste lots of weight on support equipment and make bad press when shit happens?
You want to think that question through the rest of the way. If your reasoning held any water, we wouldn't have hundreds or thousands of willing volunteers for a one-way mission to Mars.
Food for thought: what can humans experience on a mountaintop that they couldn't experience in their own warm, safe basements, just by taking the right drugs?
Does that stop those transportation devices from ever being used after those deaths? Why is spaceflight any different?
(Shrug) I don't know, you tell me. That was the question I was implicitly asking. I don't see a difference, myself.
History shows that contracts and laws, by themselves, aren't enough to save us from years of unproductive sobbing and navel-gazing after something spectacular goes wrong in space.
Record a video before you leave which can be publicized widely in the event you're killed in the course of your mission. Make it very clear that you accepted the risks willingly, that your motives included the betterment of humanity, and that you felt they were important enough to die for them.
Make it clear that your death was no different in spirit than that of a random, forgotten pioneer who might have suffered from dysentery or Indian attacks or smallpox or whatever. Explain that robots cannot, in fact, do everything a human might usefully do in space; that this sort of shit sometimes happens; and that everybody should just deal with it and get over it, already.
In short, make it clear that you would be very angry if people were to use your death as an excuse to cripple and delay manned space exploration any more than it already has been.
Why leave a video? Because sooner or later, one of the private US-based launch efforts is going to kill one or more of its crew members. Strong men will cry on TV, flags will wave solemnly, Jesus will be praised, and America will enter its usual 10-years-of-sackcloth-and-ashes routine. Politicians will compete to see who can ban X, Y, or Z first. No further progress will be made because, fuck, man, somebody got killed the last time!
You need to tell everyone that this is a bullshit attitude. Remind them that if we have to wait until space travel is as safe as boarding an airplane in order to make any forward progress, we will end up in the same place we would've ended up in if we had insisted on delaying aeronautical research until flying was as safe as walking.
... because Adobe broke the search feature in the versions after 9.4.0 (both 9.x and 10.x) If you search in a.PDF in the newer versions, it will fail to highlight at least some of the matches.
This is a pretty huge deal and it would be astonishing if it were still broken. Does anybody know if they've fixed the bug?
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Unfortunately, the truth is that the events of the last 10-15 years are proving your comment to be more than a sarcastic joke.
Starbucks is going to know who was in their store at a specific date and time.
Do they know who was sitting in an SUV two miles away with the funny-looking camper shell on top -- the one that doesn't look quite big enough to sleep in, but is plenty big enough for a 12-element 2.4 GHz Yagi?
*Well actually there isn't any room for voodoo with analog signalling either, and you can either measure differences in analog signal quality on a scope or it isn't there too.*
Actually an oscilloscope is good for about 40 or 50 dB of dynamic range, while your ears are good for around 100 dB. So you can indeed hear distortion in a sine wave before you'll notice it on an oscilloscope display.
The same is not true of a high-end FFT analyzer, of course.
Usually they are required in production environments, not for your home HDTV.
Rest assured, nobody spends $1000 on a video cable in a production environment unless there is something very unusual about that cable, such as being 100 feet long.
That's the real irony behind high-end audio... do those morons think the stuff they're listening to with their $5000 power cables was recorded that way?
*My parents were swindled out of a $50k deposite on a home by a businessman who bankrupt his business three separate times, each time personally making off with large sums of money.*
Of course, there's something to be said in favor of due diligence when putting down $50k deposits. Your parents should have done due diligence, but didn't. The government has no incentive to even try... after all, it's not their money.
This would be the same "international audience" that we periodically have to save from some other part of the "international audience" because nobody but the Americans and the bad guys are comfortable around weapons. Right?
We do a lot of things that aren't easy. Putting over a billion transistors on a chip the size of a stamp and doing almost a trillion calculations per second with them isn't easy. Extracting enough energy to run a city from a few glow-in-the-dark rocks isn't easy. Even ordinary air travel requires continuous hard work from a large number of highly skilled people to perform efficiently and safely. None of these things are 'solved problems,' yet we still do them, and we get better at them over time.
Rocket science may be a difficult endeavor, but that's no excuse for it to become less reliable over time.
Citation needed. I don't think anyone is saying "Russia bad!" -- especially since we (the US) now rely on the Russians for human transport missions.
Instead, we're saying "Russia, what the hell, this isn't like you. Get your shit together."
Really? Do yo have any idea how hard it is to actually manage launching something like that in to space? We should be more amazed when everything goes right and a rocket actually makes it there.
The only reason that commercial air travel is as safe as it is, is because nobody listened to your grandpa when he said the same thing in 1912.
Arduinos are for retards. They're for all the people who seek validation being able to get LEDs to blink without knowing any annoying facts like operating voltages. The Raspberry Pi, however, is a BASIC stamp. That means that the real money-makers, the ones who know microcode, get back to work.
OK, WTF, time out. Can someone please explain this strange new trend of trolling with the intent of making yourself look stupid? I think it started on either 4chan or Fark, but it's been showing up here a lot lately. When I learned to troll, I was taught that the idea was to make the other guy look stupid.
Kids these days. Personally, I blame the excessive use of psychoactive prescription drugs in our schools.
amend the constitution to have it your way, problem solved
We don't follow the Constitution we have now, so what difference does it make what it says?
Translation: "I enjoy rewriting history and oversimplifying complex phenomena to push my own brand of politics."
But are you talking about yourself, or Ron Paul?
then again from a moral point of view contraceptives are everywhere
Only because batshit religious fundies like Ron Paul were successfully stopped in the past.
His main point is that we are running this country in a much too centralized manner, so EVERYTHING becomes applicable to EVERYONE in the United States.
There are two problems with Ron Paul: one, he is religiously motivated, and two, he seems just crazy enough to be sincere about it.
Certain things should be applicable to "EVERYONE in the United States," as you put it. Among them are educational opportunities. In Ron Paul's ideal society, a child attending public school in Oklahoma City will learn one thing in science class, while a child in Seattle learns something very different.
Making that happen is very important to the so-called "religious right" in the US. Keeping it from happening is very important to everyone in possession of two or more brain cells. So: no RONPAUL!!! for me, thanks. His idea of "libertarianism" is just the same old schtick of trading one liberty for another.
Perhaps the project leaders should instead think before writing marketing copy.
The bans do not work because they are not enforced and people ignore them. That is not a reason to throw out the ban
When the law does not respect the people, the people will not respect the law.
Excuse me, this was supposed to be a triple nonfat latte.
This is just a recapitulation of what happened when wireless tech was ramping up in the first few decades of the 20th century. The patent wars were nasty, brutal, and long enough to put an entire generation of lawyers' kids through college.
Nothing changed. It won't change this time, either, because there are more lawyers at the controls of the US government today than there ever have been.
Generically building a filter in that frequency range with those specs is impossible, but building the device to that exact frequency spec and stable over any temperature range makes it even more impossible
And that's a big part of the problem as well. GPS is first and foremost a precision timing application, and high-Q bandpass filters and phase stability/tempco do not mix.
Pay for it yourself, or give me some reason to pay for it rather than spending the money on probes and basic research.
Which is the point of not only my post, but the whole freakin' article.
Read first, then type.
So what can humans do in space that robots can't, besides waste lots of weight on support equipment and make bad press when shit happens?
You want to think that question through the rest of the way. If your reasoning held any water, we wouldn't have hundreds or thousands of willing volunteers for a one-way mission to Mars.
Food for thought: what can humans experience on a mountaintop that they couldn't experience in their own warm, safe basements, just by taking the right drugs?
Does that stop those transportation devices from ever being used after those deaths? Why is spaceflight any different?
(Shrug) I don't know, you tell me. That was the question I was implicitly asking. I don't see a difference, myself.
History shows that contracts and laws, by themselves, aren't enough to save us from years of unproductive sobbing and navel-gazing after something spectacular goes wrong in space.
Record a video before you leave which can be publicized widely in the event you're killed in the course of your mission. Make it very clear that you accepted the risks willingly, that your motives included the betterment of humanity, and that you felt they were important enough to die for them.
Make it clear that your death was no different in spirit than that of a random, forgotten pioneer who might have suffered from dysentery or Indian attacks or smallpox or whatever. Explain that robots cannot, in fact, do everything a human might usefully do in space; that this sort of shit sometimes happens; and that everybody should just deal with it and get over it, already.
In short, make it clear that you would be very angry if people were to use your death as an excuse to cripple and delay manned space exploration any more than it already has been.
Why leave a video? Because sooner or later, one of the private US-based launch efforts is going to kill one or more of its crew members. Strong men will cry on TV, flags will wave solemnly, Jesus will be praised, and America will enter its usual 10-years-of-sackcloth-and-ashes routine. Politicians will compete to see who can ban X, Y, or Z first. No further progress will be made because, fuck, man, somebody got killed the last time!
You need to tell everyone that this is a bullshit attitude. Remind them that if we have to wait until space travel is as safe as boarding an airplane in order to make any forward progress, we will end up in the same place we would've ended up in if we had insisted on delaying aeronautical research until flying was as safe as walking.
... because Adobe broke the search feature in the versions after 9.4.0 (both 9.x and 10.x) If you search in a .PDF in the newer versions, it will fail to highlight at least some of the matches.
This is a pretty huge deal and it would be astonishing if it were still broken. Does anybody know if they've fixed the bug?
I would be too busy sprinting in the other direction to "step right up."