Well, Philips' marketing and packaging is fairly ambiguous about what you can listen to.
Connect to Multiple Online Music Services, it says; now this sounds like "Streams that Philips wants you to listen to".
General alarm bells would be sounding already with that part of the blurb if it wasn't for:
Online Radio:
Go global! select from thousands of stations of music, news, sports and special interests in any language, from every region.
Which would lead me to think "Great! this listens to all the channels globally which run from shoutcast style systems (re: Mp3 capability)
And I would have been wrong.
And it would have gone back to the store in a hurry.
Its worth remembering here again that as you make legal comment, that it is largely dependant on which country a case is tried in as to what will stand.
There is so such thing as a legal proceeding outside the U.S.A. you know:)
This isn't a multi-national were talking about here. Things are a little different here in the UK.
I'll quite gladly take the 'lads' round their 'yard' for a word in their ear and It'll all be sorted in no time >;)
But seriously, I think this is quite a small company who may have rights to the old BBC>Acorn RiscOS PCs. A good thing on its own. But now that they have decided to rip-off OSS code, I feel quite dissapointed. Especially as I like to think of my fellow countrymen being decent.
Come on, how much pain is there in providing the effing source??
The Soyuz system is a veritable box of fireworks; since the 60's its been the principal launch vehicle for all Russian space missions and in terms of unmanned sattelite deployments it has in the past run to more than 6 launches a month.
Has anyone mentioned how much current a modern Athlon/Pentium IV can suck up?
As someone already mentioned, they kick out a hell-of a lot of heat which would need a more capable heat-exchanger. But your also looking at adding the addition mass of bigger APUs (used on re-entry)
Just a note on 486's; I once watched a 486 pc in an office car park get run over by a Range Rover. It flipped a couple of times and smashed into the kerb. There was a huge hole torn in the systems case and apparent scratches on the mobo.
After replacing the HDD, the machine booted and ran first time.
Now imagine trying that with a modern 'cough & you've bust it' PC.
A little more hunting through my books revealed the emergency egress system for the Avro Vulcan bomber. Its simmilar to the shuttle egress procedure but the 'unlucky three' who dont get the Martin Baker seats in this case are expected to swing themselves around the nosewheel after jumping from the belly door
This system was tested successfully once
It is known to have caused at least 6 fatalities.
I believe the US government prosecutes for theft of US Space Shuttle wreckage, theres no 'finders-keepers' rule here. So if you're a 'finder' its best to be a 'helper' and alert the authorities.
It is correct that the shuttle had an emergency egress system. The system involved a (relatively) lengthy procedure; The shuttle would first have to be stabilised in a low-speed glide, the crew hatch (port) would be jettisoned and an egress pole extended from the hatch. The crew would then extricate themselves from their seats and attach their emergency lanyard to the pole and pull themselves out the hatch, the pole guiding them away from the wing.
This procedure required a stable automatic glide at less than 30,000ft. The very nature of the requirements for this egress system indicate that its expected use was for undercarriage faults or events where the shuttle would be untrimmable for landing: the shuttle would be expected to make an automated landing attempt after the crew had exited.
Another possible note here is that the egress hatch is apparently situated on the lower deck, below & aft the flight-deck.
Interestingly, the first four orbital shuttle flights (STS1-STS4) which only comprised two crew; pilot & co-pilot, the shuttle was fitted with a pair of Martin-Baker ejector seats.
The pyrotechnic seats were of simmilar design to those used in the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird aircraft.
On pulling the gun-sear handle, the canopy over the forward flight-deck would be pyrotechnically separated and the seats would fire on telescopic exit poles.
This system was said to have been effective up to 100,000ft although I have no information on whether this was true for both launch and return stages.
We will always remember the brave crew of Columbia STS-107 - some of the worlds last true pioneers.
A small goup here in the U.K. think we might have a solution to entry into this sort of market: possibly utilising open-source software & tech. (But ultimately in a no idealistic way).
Don't worry we're not thinking of releasing a console (ala Indrema). And hopefully we wont be needing huge ammounts of start capital. Aside from that we're in early stages so I'm keeping quiet for now.
Well, anyway, good luck to these guys; they'll need it. Even if they don't make it, we may have a pleasant suprise for you in Winter 2003/04;)
I guess it also depends on the distro; i've used Mandrake, SuSE and Redhat over the years, it seems that Mandrake just *wants* ease of use now whereas SuSE actually has it; SuSE now allows very Windowistic configuration of things like the X server.
Well, so long as you don't get any funny ideas about using MS Windows eh?:))
It must have been a while since you had a look at linux based desktops and were having to "mess with emacs config files". Things have come quite a way since then: hopefully if you choose to check back and run a linux box you will be pleasantly surprised.:)
BTW; I have 2 Linux Desktops, 2 Macs here, 2 Amigas, 1 Acorn and a few Sinclairs here - I love diversity!:)) - Oh wait, I don't have a Windows box:P
The hydrogen didn't burn initially as without oxgen available inside the envelope it pysically couldn't.
You're correct to say that the envelope skin with its volatile sealants burned first, tearing the envelope allowing oxygen from the outside air to mix with the hydrogen and burn.
The hydrogen would have burned-off very quickly leaving the remained of the envelope to burn more fiercely.
In any case the major reason for not using hydrogen in LTAs now is the dangers involved in general handling ie: when you fill the things there is a massive risk of leakages and fires.
(As told to me by my good friend from the Virgin airship company U.K.:) )
Aston Martin "Vanish" & Adaptive Camoflage
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In a recent UK documentary on the making of Die Another Day the producer of the film explained that the Invisible Vanquish was an extrusion of the idea of adaptive camoflage systems that both America and Britain are developing.
The Car in the bond film is a bit of fantasy loosely based on reality.
Adaptive Camoflage is designed to be fitted to the Reactive Armour plates on modern tanks using liquid crystal or simmilar technology.
The system can be used in the case of a prepared position where the tank commander walks say 100 feet downrange prior to the tank being positioned, takes a digital photo of the position and then moves the tank into place.
The picture is then used to 'paint' the plates on the vehicle to resemble the area the vehicle was moved into so an enemy unit approaching from a distance will find it hard to visually aquire the tank.
This system can also be used to 'best-guess' the colours required when stopping in the battlefield (albeit without jumping out for the snapshot). For example; a tank could stop half in front of a building and hedge and be 'painted' in the colours of the building & hedge.
This only works against an enemy unit approaching from one direction and even then would only work from several hundred meters away (unless the enemy approached in a straight line directly toward the tank).
This system will likely be implemented and refined over time but a vehicle which could appear 'invisible' under close inspection is rather far-fetched and something very much based in Science-Fiction
A Sadistic PalmOS powered Etcha Sketch!
This really is a bit of a leg-puller isn't it?
I mean, a guy with the genius(?) to come up with a robot like this, doesn't have brains enough to do the development and testing on a leg of lamb first??
"I haven't had any complaints yet." said Mr Passath.
Yes, thats because all your customers are lying on the floor with severed arteries. "Note to self: Must write limb-diameter-compensation algorhythm....."
When do americans find time to innovate? They always seem too busy with law-suits.
Also, they seem to make a lot of revenue by patenting something which they have never produced and then sueing the pants of the first person who does produce it
u`mm yeah sure ok. if we get nuked from them or another country that was helped by them to nuke us , will you still give china two thumbs up?
Western paranoia really amuses me; if, say, the US was nuked by China or vice-versa the resulting M.A.D. situation would assure that nobody anywhere had any fingers or thumbs left to stick in the air.
Therefore before our 'event' the question is redundant and after the 'event' the question is redundant. (Nobody left to care).
The only way to live live in a nuclear age is to get on with living while you can
Sorry for probably running a little way off-topic there:)
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Hmm, I'd imagine that jumping without a chute would be an even greater rush.
However, I doubt there are many people available to confirm or deny this.
I could never see the point.
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I could never see the point of jumping out of a perfectly servicable aircraft.
But driving out of one?!
Guess this brings a whole new meaning to "Hit the road....."
All you need is a good size, unexpected, solar flare during an operation and 6 hours later the surgeons will be trying to explain to you why you now have a second rectum!:)
It'd be interesting to know which label Janis Ian is / was signed to.....
The trouble is an artist signed to an RIAA member label cant go shouting disapproval of the RIAA - either they'd be offloaded by the label in a hurry or the loving, caring RIAA would unload the label.
I, personally, am getting very tired of listening to the rubbish (and it is rubbish) that the RIAA labels pump out in its neatly packaged form. I'd rather start sawing my legs off than start listening to the rubbish they pipe at us down the radio.
It may interest some of you that I've done a bit of work with a small independent British record label. Their releases are on 12" vinyl in the order of 500 - 2000 copies nationally but at the same time we were making full-length average quality MP3s available originally on audiogalaxy and later on gnutella. This was possibly one of the shrewdest marketing moves ever (this company never had a sell-out release until they tried this)
It cant just be me, is this making any of you people actually want to go out and sell a few pirate CD's just to show two fingers to the MPAA & RIAA?
I wonder if an attempt to implement these laws in the UK would work. Sadly, under the new "Yes Mister Bush, No Mister Bush, Three Bags full Mister Bush" Tony Blair, It probably would:(
There was a IT engineer based in London who was sacked because he couldn't get the ping rate between the London and N.Y.C. corporate offices below 20ms.......His boss didn't see the "speed of light" as a valid excuse!!
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Well, Philips' marketing and packaging is fairly ambiguous about what you can listen to.
:) - And then hook it up to a significantly larger sound system ;)
Connect to Multiple Online Music Services, it says; now this sounds like "Streams that Philips wants you to listen to".
General alarm bells would be sounding already with that part of the blurb if it wasn't for:
Online Radio:
Go global! select from thousands of stations of music, news, sports and special interests in any language, from every region.
Which would lead me to think "Great! this listens to all the channels globally which run from shoutcast style systems (re: Mp3 capability)
And I would have been wrong.
And it would have gone back to the store in a hurry.
Anyway; I've always fancied making one of these myself, possibly with a Mini_ITX form factor
Seeing as how my belly isn't big enough to crush them to death :P
Its worth remembering here again that as you make legal comment, that it is largely dependant on which country a case is tried in as to what will stand.
:)
There is so such thing as a legal proceeding outside the U.S.A. you know
This isn't a multi-national were talking about here. Things are a little different here in the UK.
I'll quite gladly take the 'lads' round their 'yard' for a word in their ear and It'll all be sorted in no time >;)
But seriously, I think this is quite a small company who may have rights to the old BBC>Acorn RiscOS PCs. A good thing on its own. But now that they have decided to rip-off OSS code, I feel quite dissapointed. Especially as I like to think of my fellow countrymen being decent.
Come on, how much pain is there in providing the effing source??
The Soyuz system is a veritable box of fireworks; since the 60's its been the principal launch vehicle for all Russian space missions and in terms of unmanned sattelite deployments it has in the past run to more than 6 launches a month.
Here's a link to a photo of the 'production line' it looks pretty busy.
Has anyone mentioned how much current a modern Athlon/Pentium IV can suck up?
As someone already mentioned, they kick out a hell-of a lot of heat which would need a more capable heat-exchanger. But your also looking at adding the addition mass of bigger APUs (used on re-entry)
Just a note on 486's; I once watched a 486 pc in an office car park get run over by a Range Rover. It flipped a couple of times and smashed into the kerb. There was a huge hole torn in the systems case and apparent scratches on the mobo.
After replacing the HDD, the machine booted and ran first time.
Now imagine trying that with a modern 'cough & you've bust it' PC.
A little more hunting through my books revealed the emergency egress system for the Avro Vulcan bomber. Its simmilar to the shuttle egress procedure but the 'unlucky three' who dont get the Martin Baker seats in this case are expected to swing themselves around the nosewheel after jumping from the belly door
This system was tested successfully once
It is known to have caused at least 6 fatalities.
There must be better ways.
The Phalanx cannons are reputed to only achieve a 1 in 3 success rate; I think they might just have to come up with something better.
:)
And Im sure they would
I believe the US government prosecutes for theft of US Space Shuttle wreckage, theres no 'finders-keepers' rule here. So if you're a 'finder' its best to be a 'helper' and alert the authorities.
It is correct that the shuttle had an emergency egress system. The system involved a (relatively) lengthy procedure; The shuttle would first have to be stabilised in a low-speed glide, the crew hatch (port) would be jettisoned and an egress pole extended from the hatch. The crew would then extricate themselves from their seats and attach their emergency lanyard to the pole and pull themselves out the hatch, the pole guiding them away from the wing.
This procedure required a stable automatic glide at less than 30,000ft. The very nature of the requirements for this egress system indicate that its expected use was for undercarriage faults or events where the shuttle would be untrimmable for landing: the shuttle would be expected to make an automated landing attempt after the crew had exited.
Another possible note here is that the egress hatch is apparently situated on the lower deck, below & aft the flight-deck.
Interestingly, the first four orbital shuttle flights (STS1-STS4) which only comprised two crew; pilot & co-pilot, the shuttle was fitted with a pair of Martin-Baker ejector seats.
The pyrotechnic seats were of simmilar design to those used in the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird aircraft.
On pulling the gun-sear handle, the canopy over the forward flight-deck would be pyrotechnically separated and the seats would fire on telescopic exit poles.
This system was said to have been effective up to 100,000ft although I have no information on whether this was true for both launch and return stages.
We will always remember the brave crew of Columbia STS-107 - some of the worlds last true pioneers.
No, sorry, no connection there :)
A small goup here in the U.K. think we might have a solution to entry into this sort of market: possibly utilising open-source software & tech. (But ultimately in a no idealistic way).
;)
Don't worry we're not thinking of releasing a console (ala Indrema). And hopefully we wont be needing huge ammounts of start capital. Aside from that we're in early stages so I'm keeping quiet for now.
Well, anyway, good luck to these guys; they'll need it. Even if they don't make it, we may have a pleasant suprise for you in Winter 2003/04
I guess it also depends on the distro; i've used Mandrake, SuSE and Redhat over the years, it seems that Mandrake just *wants* ease of use now whereas SuSE actually has it; SuSE now allows very Windowistic configuration of things like the X server.
:))
Well, so long as you don't get any funny ideas about using MS Windows eh?
Im really not taking a shot at you....but....
:)
:)) - Oh wait, I don't have a Windows box :P
It must have been a while since you had a look at linux based desktops and were having to "mess with emacs config files". Things have come quite a way since then: hopefully if you choose to check back and run a linux box you will be pleasantly surprised.
BTW; I have 2 Linux Desktops, 2 Macs here, 2 Amigas, 1 Acorn and a few Sinclairs here - I love diversity!
The hydrogen didn't burn initially as without oxgen available inside the envelope it pysically couldn't.
:) )
You're correct to say that the envelope skin with its volatile sealants burned first, tearing the envelope allowing oxygen from the outside air to mix with the hydrogen and burn.
The hydrogen would have burned-off very quickly leaving the remained of the envelope to burn more fiercely.
In any case the major reason for not using hydrogen in LTAs now is the dangers involved in general handling ie: when you fill the things there is a massive risk of leakages and fires.
(As told to me by my good friend from the Virgin airship company U.K.
In a recent UK documentary on the making of Die Another Day the producer of the film explained that the Invisible Vanquish was an extrusion of the idea of adaptive camoflage systems that both America and Britain are developing.
The Car in the bond film is a bit of fantasy loosely based on reality.
Adaptive Camoflage is designed to be fitted to the Reactive Armour plates on modern tanks using liquid crystal or simmilar technology. The system can be used in the case of a prepared position where the tank commander walks say 100 feet downrange prior to the tank being positioned, takes a digital photo of the position and then moves the tank into place.
The picture is then used to 'paint' the plates on the vehicle to resemble the area the vehicle was moved into so an enemy unit approaching from a distance will find it hard to visually aquire the tank.
This system can also be used to 'best-guess' the colours required when stopping in the battlefield (albeit without jumping out for the snapshot). For example; a tank could stop half in front of a building and hedge and be 'painted' in the colours of the building & hedge.
This only works against an enemy unit approaching from one direction and even then would only work from several hundred meters away (unless the enemy approached in a straight line directly toward the tank).
This system will likely be implemented and refined over time but a vehicle which could appear 'invisible' under close inspection is rather far-fetched and something very much based in Science-Fiction
A Sadistic PalmOS powered Etcha Sketch! This really is a bit of a leg-puller isn't it?
I mean, a guy with the genius(?) to come up with a robot like this, doesn't have brains enough to do the development and testing on a leg of lamb first??
"I haven't had any complaints yet." said Mr Passath.
Yes, thats because all your customers are lying on the floor with severed arteries.
"Note to self: Must write limb-diameter-compensation algorhythm....."
When do americans find time to innovate? They always seem too busy with law-suits.
Also, they seem to make a lot of revenue by patenting something which they have never produced and then sueing the pants of the first person who does produce it
u`mm yeah sure ok. if we get nuked from them or another country that was helped by them to nuke us , will you still give china two thumbs up?
:)
Western paranoia really amuses me; if, say, the US was nuked by China or vice-versa the resulting M.A.D. situation would assure that nobody anywhere had any fingers or thumbs left to stick in the air.
Therefore before our 'event' the question is redundant and after the 'event' the question is redundant. (Nobody left to care).
The only way to live live in a nuclear age is to get on with living while you can
Sorry for probably running a little way off-topic there
Hmm, I'd imagine that jumping without a chute would be an even greater rush.
However, I doubt there are many people available to confirm or deny this.
I could never see the point of jumping out of a perfectly servicable aircraft.
But driving out of one?!
Guess this brings a whole new meaning to "Hit the road....."
All you need is a good size, unexpected, solar flare during an operation and 6 hours later the surgeons will be trying to explain to you why you now have a second rectum! :)
You smell something burning?.......
It'd be interesting to know which label Janis Ian is / was signed to.....
The trouble is an artist signed to an RIAA member label cant go shouting disapproval of the RIAA - either they'd be offloaded by the label in a hurry or the loving, caring RIAA would unload the label.
I, personally, am getting very tired of listening to the rubbish (and it is rubbish) that the RIAA labels pump out in its neatly packaged form. I'd rather start sawing my legs off than start listening to the rubbish they pipe at us down the radio.
It may interest some of you that I've done a bit of work with a small independent British record label. Their releases are on 12" vinyl in the order of 500 - 2000 copies nationally but at the same time we were making full-length average quality MP3s available originally on audiogalaxy and later on gnutella. This was possibly one of the shrewdest marketing moves ever (this company never had a sell-out release until they tried this)
It cant just be me, is this making any of you people actually want to go out and sell a few pirate CD's just to show two fingers to the MPAA & RIAA?
:(
I wonder if an attempt to implement these laws in the UK would work. Sadly, under the new "Yes Mister Bush, No Mister Bush, Three Bags full Mister Bush" Tony Blair, It probably would
Does anybody remember this urban legend?
There was a IT engineer based in London who was sacked because he couldn't get the ping rate between the London and N.Y.C. corporate offices below 20ms.......His boss didn't see the "speed of light" as a valid excuse!!