The current NASA strategy is send relatively simple missions every 26-month launch window, and build on previous results. Also, the engineering cycle is about two launch cycles to incorporate new knowledge. Casini, which arrives at Saturn in late summer, is probably the last of the planetary megaprobes from the pre-Goldin NASA era.
Wind River does have an online bug bboard. And there are two memory leak problems in the OS software reported there, but too vague to see if it was related to a VxWorks flash memory driver.
I am presuming the problem is on NASA's side- not stress testing the memory managment enough. Otherwise many of the other ccustomers would have reported bugs.
Encyclopedia Brittanica, once the the most prestigeous name in the business, fired its sales force a few years back and became entirely online subscription. I think Encarta forced it change its business model.
I think it is an interesting question to ask why Vietanmese youth gangs have latched onto cybercafes as places to meet and get into trouble. Thats not a typical gang venue.
Background: Garden Grove, Orange County, California has the highest concentration of Vietnamese immigrants in the USA, with the Silicon Valley area second place. Garden Grove is above 1/3 Viet, 1/3 Hispanic and 1/4 Anglo. Ethnic groups in the US has often have disaffected youth groups to socialize and/or make easy money.
Cybercafes havent really caught on with Anglo youth because they access at home and school. Cybercafes are quite popular in most non-US countries, perhaps due to the lesser InterNet availability in the school and home. Parents probably sanction these as places for kids to hang out because they seem "educational" and not as naughty as bars, malls or ordinary cafes.
So I guess the youth in Garden Grove starting socializing in cybercafes. More opened in each strip mall to fuel the popularity. Then they became "teritories". Then they became places of making easy money by either computer scamming or other means. It takes a fair amount of money to equip a cycbercafe, so these become big-cash businesses of interest in themselves.
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NASA was planning only Space Station compatible orbits as one of the safety mechanisms for the shuttles. The Hubble is in a very different orbit, with inadequate fuel to reach the Space Station in case of trouble.
On the other hand, the Hubbe is arguably the most successful astronomical project ever conducted and NASAs second most successful project after the moon landing.
Note these new states of matter occur at super-cold or super-hot conditions. At super-cold the atoms stop motion and engage in bizaire quantum mingled quantum states. You needed a micro-degree about absolute zero for Bose matter and a nano-degee for fermatic matter.
There was a physics conference earlier in january debating whether gluon plasmas have been seen or not. When you heat and collide protons to billions of degrees, almost the speed of light, they may just merge into one big quark soup, not seen since the Big Bang.
When you see hype like this, they are gunning for the Nobel prize. I doubt they'll grant one for fermiotic matter, since it is an extension of the efforts that creatic Einstein-Bose matter and won the nobel in the late 1990s.
The space shuttles run on five AP-101 computers, originally designed in 1969. The started with 32 kilowords of magnetic core memory for radiation protection, since upgraded to semiconductor memory. These computers were chosen due to their success in the Apollo, Skylab, and B52. For science and personal work the astronaut specialists usually bring personal laptops which are thousnds of times more performant.
A leading hypothesis is that flash memory overflow caused Spirit to be shut down for two weeks. Either it was a failure in the memory chips or OS software garbage collection. They are purging and patching now. A few days of testing and perhaps Spirit is active again.
The lockup happend just as they were going to drill into the rock they've been sitting in front of for nine days. Perhaps there was drill issue too. When the rover memory crashed, it tried to reboot its computer at least a hundred times.
George and Dick are still blaming most terrorism on Iraq. Still hoping that WMD will turn up too, even though both the UN and US army coulnt find much.
In a twist of irony, the Columbia science mission were mostly successful, according to a Principal Investigator I heard from. Most of the experiments telemetered their results back to earth, with relatively few depending on equipment return. His experiement achieved 90%, with some of that by in-flight apparatus repair by the astronauts. Ghoulishly, there was some additional results derived from mostly intact parts of the apparatus recovered on the ground.
This rings up the question whether a quarter-billion manned flight should be used to conduct space lab experiments. This and earlier missions both established that mostly automatic lab modules are successful. Yet at the same time dont always work correctly and human hands can rescue them.
B52s are still heavily used in the US air wars.
They saw first flight in 1955.
I believe their innards have more or less been completely replaced a few times.
And we used to joke about MIGs using vacuum tubs.
The US college system has space for at least a
third of its population, while India and China
have a 1/20th of that. Even discounting for the poor masses who never get past grade school, you still have huge, competitative base of high school students to draw from.
Only three animated feature nominations this year- a modest Brother Bear, a cute French cartoon, and of course, Finding Nemo, pretty much a shoe-in. No Anime.
The 2005 feature animation Oscar should be more competitive with Pixar and Dreamworks contenders.
The US President is not truely elected by a popular vote, yet that is what the southern Iraqis are demanding for themselves. The US electorial college causes such anomalies such as the 2000 election of a president with the 2nd highest number of popular votes. And the 1992 election of a president with only 43% of the votes (thanks to Ross Perot).
It was worse in the past. Originally the States elected the Senators and President. And women, blacks and landless couldn't vote.
The president and congress give out recognition medals to important social, cultural, and scientific figures. Gordon Moore got a Presidential Medal of Science for Intel microprocessors. People in the uS usually dont get these medals until they are elderly or about to croak.
MSN tried to build a private MicroSoft InterNet in the early 90s. They were trying to crush AOL rather than that flakey academic network. Then Bill saw the light and embraced the national InterNet in 1995. Even though he doesn't own 100% of it, he made inroads by having IE crush the competition and the Justice Department. XML/NET is poised to grab even more control.
Hydrogen is not a naturally occuring energy source, but has to be created from other energy source. So it makes for sense to call it a battery, i.e. an intermediate energy storage for conversion to useful work. So the main drawback is where do you get the energy to create the hydrogen? The tradeoffs are whether a total energy system using hydrogen has advantages or disadvantages over the status quo. There are advantages and disadvantages either way discussed elsewhere in this thread.
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The current NASA strategy is send relatively simple missions every 26-month launch window, and build on previous results. Also, the engineering cycle is about two launch cycles to incorporate new knowledge. Casini, which arrives at Saturn in late summer, is probably the last of the planetary megaprobes from the pre-Goldin NASA era.
Wind River does have an online bug bboard. And there are two memory leak problems in the OS software reported there, but too vague to see if it was related to a VxWorks flash memory driver.
I am presuming the problem is on NASA's side- not stress testing the memory managment enough. Otherwise many of the other ccustomers would have reported bugs.
I've seen hacking recipies all over plus scare stories about huge fines, but cant relly sort out the truth.
Encyclopedia Brittanica, once the the most prestigeous name in the business, fired its sales force a few years back and became entirely online subscription. I think Encarta forced it change its business model.
I think it is an interesting question to ask why Vietanmese youth gangs have latched onto cybercafes as places to meet and get into trouble. Thats not a typical gang venue.
Background: Garden Grove, Orange County, California has the highest concentration of Vietnamese immigrants in the USA, with the Silicon Valley area second place. Garden Grove is above 1/3 Viet, 1/3 Hispanic and 1/4 Anglo. Ethnic groups in the US has often have disaffected youth groups to socialize and/or make easy money.
Cybercafes havent really caught on with Anglo youth because they access at home and school. Cybercafes are quite popular in most non-US countries, perhaps due to the lesser InterNet availability in the school and home. Parents probably sanction these as places for kids to hang out because they seem "educational" and not as naughty as bars, malls or ordinary cafes.
So I guess the youth in Garden Grove starting socializing in cybercafes. More opened in each strip mall to fuel the popularity. Then they became "teritories". Then they became places of making easy money by either computer scamming or other means. It takes a fair amount of money to equip a cycbercafe, so these become big-cash businesses of interest in themselves.
Everytime your add new feature, remove/hide an old one.
That was an interesting spectualtion at the end of the NY Times article. I dont think Jobs would be that interested in a mainstream company.
NASA was planning only Space Station compatible orbits as one of the safety mechanisms for the shuttles. The Hubble is in a very different orbit, with inadequate fuel to reach the Space Station in case of trouble.
On the other hand, the Hubbe is arguably the most successful astronomical project ever conducted and NASAs second most successful project after the moon landing.
Only the space shuttle can push the Hubble out.
Note these new states of matter occur at super-cold or super-hot conditions. At super-cold the atoms stop motion and engage in bizaire quantum mingled quantum states. You needed a micro-degree about absolute zero for Bose matter and a nano-degee for fermatic matter.
There was a physics conference earlier in january debating whether gluon plasmas have been seen or not. When you heat and collide protons to billions of degrees, almost the speed of light, they may just merge into one big quark soup, not seen since the Big Bang.
When you see hype like this, they are gunning for the Nobel prize. I doubt they'll grant one for fermiotic matter, since it is an extension of the efforts that creatic Einstein-Bose matter and won the nobel in the late 1990s.
The space shuttles run on five AP-101 computers, originally designed in 1969. The started with 32 kilowords of magnetic core memory for radiation protection, since upgraded to semiconductor memory. These computers were chosen due to their success in the Apollo, Skylab, and B52. For science and personal work the astronaut specialists usually bring personal laptops which are thousnds of times more performant.
A leading hypothesis is that flash memory overflow caused Spirit to be shut down for two weeks. Either it was a failure in the memory chips or OS software garbage collection. They are purging and patching now. A few days of testing and perhaps Spirit is active again.
The lockup happend just as they were going to drill into the rock they've been sitting in front of for nine days. Perhaps there was drill issue too. When the rover memory crashed, it tried to reboot its computer at least a hundred times.
George and Dick are still blaming most terrorism on Iraq. Still hoping that WMD will turn up too, even though both the UN and US army coulnt find much.
In a twist of irony, the Columbia science mission were mostly successful, according to a Principal Investigator I heard from. Most of the experiments telemetered their results back to earth, with relatively few depending on equipment return. His experiement achieved 90%, with some of that by in-flight apparatus repair by the astronauts. Ghoulishly, there was some additional results derived from mostly intact parts of the apparatus recovered on the ground.
This rings up the question whether a quarter-billion manned flight should be used to conduct space lab experiments. This and earlier missions both established that mostly automatic lab modules are successful. Yet at the same time dont always work correctly and human hands can rescue them.
B52s are still heavily used in the US air wars. They saw first flight in 1955. I believe their innards have more or less been completely replaced a few times. And we used to joke about MIGs using vacuum tubs.
The US college system has space for at least a third of its population, while India and China have a 1/20th of that. Even discounting for the poor masses who never get past grade school, you still have huge, competitative base of high school students to draw from.
Only three animated feature nominations this year- a modest Brother Bear, a cute French cartoon, and of course, Finding Nemo, pretty much a shoe-in. No Anime.
The 2005 feature animation Oscar should be more competitive with Pixar and Dreamworks contenders.
The US President is not truely elected by a popular vote, yet that is what the southern Iraqis are demanding for themselves. The US electorial college causes such anomalies such as the 2000 election of a president with the 2nd highest number of popular votes. And the 1992 election of a president with only 43% of the votes (thanks to Ross Perot).
It was worse in the past. Originally the States elected the Senators and President. And women, blacks and landless couldn't vote.
The president and congress give out recognition medals to important social, cultural, and scientific figures. Gordon Moore got a Presidential Medal of Science for Intel microprocessors. People in the uS usually dont get these medals until they are elderly or about to croak.
MSN tried to build a private MicroSoft InterNet in the early 90s. They were trying to crush AOL rather than that flakey academic network. Then Bill saw the light and embraced the national InterNet in 1995. Even though he doesn't own 100% of it, he made inroads by having IE crush the competition and the Justice Department. XML/NET is poised to grab even more control.
US technology is a safety hazard until ALL of it uses the International Units System. I believe most of it does comply.
When he saw the water channels on Mars, later confirmed by the orbiters.
Ten for the fingers, ten for the toes, and one for somewhere else.
Hydrogen is not a naturally occuring energy source, but has to be created from other energy source. So it makes for sense to call it a battery, i.e. an intermediate energy storage for conversion to useful work. So the main drawback is where do you get the energy to create the hydrogen? The tradeoffs are whether a total energy system using hydrogen has advantages or disadvantages over the status quo. There are advantages and disadvantages either way discussed elsewhere in this thread.