It's not that dumb a question, as it brings up the trade-offs inherent in spaceflight and planning. Yes, you could, but then the problem you face is the additional mass added by the shielding you've employed. This will cut into the mass of other stuff you can put aboard your spacecraft. For some purposes, massive shielding might be essential (perhaps for some reason they need the additional processing power), but for most, the current systems will work.
Perhaps instead of placing the solar panels on the robotic mule itself, they could instead mount an antennae to pick up beamed power. I know that the US military has been interested in the use of Solar Power Sats to send power down to remote locations, so this might be a useful application. Best of all, it won't be as disrupted by clouds as a solar panel itself would be.
Thanks for the link. As I am a Canadian, I didn't think to look on a US Government site- though perhaps I should have. I'll check to see if any corresponding information is on a similar Canadian site.
How readily available is it? Is there a site that explains how to get moving efficiently through the airport? I don't know if it would help anyone else, but I would like one.
Speaking of training, wouldn't it be helpful if someone put up an instructional video or a website with instructions on how to go through security and the airport in general? If so many people are having trouble, it seems to me that the average flyer (hey, that's me!) needs a bit of extra help. I don't see the current situation changing any time soon, so a bit of instruction would be helpful.
A pamphlet would be good, too- something to quickly check when waiting or before I arrive. I know that I use the bus schedules like that.
There was a danger that the astronauts on it would declare independence, then proceed to drop other nodes on South America. Also, one of the treadmills would be painted red and go far too fast for ordinary astronauts to use.
I've had good luck ordering Taiyo Yuden media online, and the prices haven't been so bad, even in Canada. So far, I have had no trouble with them (but as we well know, that doesn't really mean much). I tried picking up some MAM-A recordable media, but it was a bit pricey for my needs.
It would be interesting (well, at least to me) to see this technology run in connection with Yamaha's Vocaloid technology. Vocaloid, as Wikipedia puts it, "is a singing synthesizer application software developed by the Yamaha Corporation that enables users to synthesize singing by just typing in lyrics and melody."
The English version doesn't work very well, but the Japanese version called "Hatsune Miku" doesn't sound all that much worse than the average pop idol. That, admittedly, isn't saying much, but it's a neat little thing in a way. Well, to me.
If both were used in concert with one another, we'd have a wholly computer-generated voice being accompanied by a wholly computer-generated backup band. The human intervention comes in with the user typing the lyrics in, however.
I have to admit, though that I am rather disturbed by the paragraph in the conclusion that states:
"...Defendants, on the other hand, are adherents of a movement that believes that information should be available without charge to anyone clever enough to break into the computer systems or data storage media in which it is located..."
Which was not the core issue of the case, in my opinion. It seems that the defendants in the DECSS case are being treated in a "guilt by association" sort of manner. I wonder how much that this line of thinking affected the Honorable Mr. Kaplan's decision.
I know that the judge spelt out in the end that he felt that DECSS and the subsequent distribution of the DECSS code was a violation of the DMCA, but that one paragraph really bothers me.
Is that the future for situations that deal with free speech that involve "hackers"? Will they all be viewed in that sort of damning light that makes judges ignore the potential First Amendment concerns?
The article mentioned that they were having problems WRT the port to Linux. Having done only very rudimentary programming in the Unix environment, I was wondering if anyone could clear up for me exactly what sort of problems could be incurred with a port of this sort.
If the port is successful, what differences would there be between a Linux/general Unix version of Office and the Windows variant? Would there be a difference in look and feel, or would there be some difference in functionality?
I probably got here too late for this to be moderated, or even viewed, so likely no-one will see this, but:
A link for those people who want to learn more about Serial Experiments Lain:
http://www.anipike.com/series5.html
has a list of all sorts of pages devoted to Lain. Hopefully that's all the explanation people need. It is a worthwhile series to view, if you like anime, and if you wish to view something which asks questions about reality and our place in it. That, and the intro song is pretty good.
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It's not that dumb a question, as it brings up the trade-offs inherent in spaceflight and planning. Yes, you could, but then the problem you face is the additional mass added by the shielding you've employed. This will cut into the mass of other stuff you can put aboard your spacecraft. For some purposes, massive shielding might be essential (perhaps for some reason they need the additional processing power), but for most, the current systems will work.
Perhaps instead of placing the solar panels on the robotic mule itself, they could instead mount an antennae to pick up beamed power. I know that the US military has been interested in the use of Solar Power Sats to send power down to remote locations, so this might be a useful application. Best of all, it won't be as disrupted by clouds as a solar panel itself would be.
Thanks for the link. As I am a Canadian, I didn't think to look on a US Government site- though perhaps I should have. I'll check to see if any corresponding information is on a similar Canadian site.
How readily available is it? Is there a site that explains how to get moving efficiently through the airport? I don't know if it would help anyone else, but I would like one.
Speaking of training, wouldn't it be helpful if someone put up an instructional video or a website with instructions on how to go through security and the airport in general? If so many people are having trouble, it seems to me that the average flyer (hey, that's me!) needs a bit of extra help. I don't see the current situation changing any time soon, so a bit of instruction would be helpful.
A pamphlet would be good, too- something to quickly check when waiting or before I arrive. I know that I use the bus schedules like that.
There was a danger that the astronauts on it would declare independence, then proceed to drop other nodes on South America. Also, one of the treadmills would be painted red and go far too fast for ordinary astronauts to use.
Trust me, this is much better.
Oh, and get one of the astronauts to wear red all the time.
To extend the Bazaar metaphor- even real Bazaars have some level of authority or control at some level.
I've had good luck ordering Taiyo Yuden media online, and the prices haven't been so bad, even in Canada. So far, I have had no trouble with them (but as we well know, that doesn't really mean much). I tried picking up some MAM-A recordable media, but it was a bit pricey for my needs.
It would be interesting (well, at least to me) to see this technology run in connection with Yamaha's Vocaloid technology. Vocaloid, as Wikipedia puts it, "is a singing synthesizer application software developed by the Yamaha Corporation that enables users to synthesize singing by just typing in lyrics and melody."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid
The English version doesn't work very well, but the Japanese version called "Hatsune Miku" doesn't sound all that much worse than the average pop idol. That, admittedly, isn't saying much, but it's a neat little thing in a way. Well, to me.
If both were used in concert with one another, we'd have a wholly computer-generated voice being accompanied by a wholly computer-generated backup band. The human intervention comes in with the user typing the lyrics in, however.
Ugh, 93 pages of legaleeze to march through.
I have to admit, though that I am rather disturbed by the paragraph in the conclusion that states:
"...Defendants, on the other hand, are adherents of a movement that believes that information should be available without charge to anyone clever enough to break into the computer systems or data storage media in which it is located..."
Which was not the core issue of the case, in my opinion. It seems that the defendants in the DECSS case are being treated in a "guilt by association" sort of manner. I wonder how much that this line of thinking affected the Honorable Mr. Kaplan's decision.
I know that the judge spelt out in the end that he felt that DECSS and the subsequent distribution of the DECSS code was a violation of the DMCA, but that one paragraph really bothers me.
Is that the future for situations that deal with free speech that involve "hackers"? Will they all be viewed in that sort of damning light that makes judges ignore the potential First Amendment concerns?
Thanks.
The article mentioned that they were having problems WRT the port to Linux. Having done only very rudimentary programming in the Unix environment, I was wondering if anyone could clear up for me exactly what sort of problems could be incurred with a port of this sort.
If the port is successful, what differences would there be between a Linux/general Unix version of Office and the Windows variant? Would there be a difference in look and feel, or would there be some difference in functionality?
I probably got here too late for this to be moderated, or even viewed, so likely no-one will see this, but:
A link for those people who want to learn more about Serial Experiments Lain:
http://www.anipike.com/series5.html
has a list of all sorts of pages devoted to Lain. Hopefully that's all the explanation people need. It is a worthwhile series to view, if you like anime, and if you wish to view something which asks questions about reality and our place in it. That, and the intro song is pretty good.