The only thing I have that uses Silverblight is a stupid Harmony remote. I have many reasons why I don't like that thing (including its use of Silverblight for configuration), but it has access to codes for newer devices. One of these days I'll get around to making my own remote control.
Maybe the whole planet could be a computer made out of these geologic semiconductors! (Where have I heard that before? Something about mice and dolphins and fjords...)
Most of Iridium NEXT will go up starting next year with ten per launch on a Falcon 9. The deal will be half a billion dollars for seven launches. There will also be a Dnepr launch of two more, probably the first two to go up. So half that billion for launch costs leaves you with another half billion at the low end for hardware. Plus, Iridium has been up 16 years, so the basic patents are going to expire soon.
Iridium had problems because it was just a little bit ahead of its time. First of all, it uses analog hardware. To use it for digital data, you need a modem, and you can forget about going beyond 9600 baud. If they had done it a few years later, it could probably have been digital. With no digital capability, the only people who had any real use for the service were ships at sea and polar explorers.
The other big problem was launch costs. Then the whole project went bankrupt and was bought cheap. Launch costs are coming down with SpaceX now in the picture, and guess what? They're replacing them in 2015-2017 with a next generation Iridium.
It seems to me like what Google is planning isn't dumb at all. This may be just the right time to do it.
Pretty sure you have the math off. It's about 250ms each way to GEO, so that makes a 1 second ping time, not 2 seconds. Plus, I know this because one time I actually did a ping from wireless internet at a highway rest area. (What true geek wouldn't?) In LEO, the latency will be a lot less because ~150mi altitude vs ~25000mi is a big difference. And of course GEO isn't such a great idea unless you have a fixed dish antenna.
They're not really interchangeable. I'm pretty sure the berthing port is larger than the manned docking port, so that would limit the size of pressurized cargo because of the smaller door.
Just think about those solar lawn lights you can buy - they work great for the first year, but them slowly stop charging.
That's generally because they use cheap NiCd batteries with very a primitive (if any!) charge controller. I've been accumulating dead ones I find cheap so I can try to build a panel out of their solar cells, just because.
It's easy, you just take a man and a woman, and give them eighteen years or so. That's 36 man years, but we should be able to speed it up by putting more people on the job!
"That's a very nice domain name registrar you have there, sir. It would be a real shame if... something were to happen to it. For instance, it might... break. Knowutimean, guv?"
I thought they were planning to use it to kill off the drop bears and cane toads.
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since the Ctrl+W used for find in nano happens to close the current tab in Chrome and Firefox.
Ctrl-W / Command-W has always pissed me off, because W is right next to Q, and that causes me to exit from stuff when I'm just trying to close a window or tab.
As far as I know, that key mapping first appeared in Microsoft Word 1.0 for Macintosh. Back in those days, I would go into ResEdit and add a Command-K to File->Close in whatever programs I was using. It needed a key assigned, but I never thought W was a good choice.
From the description in TFS, it sounds like it's a relative position system like inertial, but uses a different force (the Earth's magnetic field instead of inertia) to determine the relative position. GPS is completely different, generating an absolute position by measuring range to satellites (and sometimes ground stations) in known positions.
By "rotate", I meant point it in the right direction to begin with, not add a motor to the mast. Even then, I still have to get on a ladder every couple of months to twist the antenna around because its direction gets changed by the wind.
Exactly. This is in California? It's less likely to be recoverable than ANWAR, if only because the greenies would never let it be tapped because of NIMBY.
The thing is, it's only been in the past five years or so that I've noticed then/than being a problem at all, like it came out of nowhere. For a long time, the one that annoyed me the most was lose/loose. That one is still around, but it seems less common lately. And your/its/there have always been a problem.
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The only thing I have that uses Silverblight is a stupid Harmony remote. I have many reasons why I don't like that thing (including its use of Silverblight for configuration), but it has access to codes for newer devices. One of these days I'll get around to making my own remote control.
Maybe the whole planet could be a computer made out of these geologic semiconductors! (Where have I heard that before? Something about mice and dolphins and fjords...)
Most of Iridium NEXT will go up starting next year with ten per launch on a Falcon 9. The deal will be half a billion dollars for seven launches. There will also be a Dnepr launch of two more, probably the first two to go up. So half that billion for launch costs leaves you with another half billion at the low end for hardware. Plus, Iridium has been up 16 years, so the basic patents are going to expire soon.
Iridium had problems because it was just a little bit ahead of its time. First of all, it uses analog hardware. To use it for digital data, you need a modem, and you can forget about going beyond 9600 baud. If they had done it a few years later, it could probably have been digital. With no digital capability, the only people who had any real use for the service were ships at sea and polar explorers.
The other big problem was launch costs. Then the whole project went bankrupt and was bought cheap. Launch costs are coming down with SpaceX now in the picture, and guess what? They're replacing them in 2015-2017 with a next generation Iridium.
It seems to me like what Google is planning isn't dumb at all. This may be just the right time to do it.
Pretty sure you have the math off. It's about 250ms each way to GEO, so that makes a 1 second ping time, not 2 seconds. Plus, I know this because one time I actually did a ping from wireless internet at a highway rest area. (What true geek wouldn't?) In LEO, the latency will be a lot less because ~150mi altitude vs ~25000mi is a big difference. And of course GEO isn't such a great idea unless you have a fixed dish antenna.
They're not really interchangeable. I'm pretty sure the berthing port is larger than the manned docking port, so that would limit the size of pressurized cargo because of the smaller door.
Just think about those solar lawn lights you can buy - they work great for the first year, but them slowly stop charging.
That's generally because they use cheap NiCd batteries with very a primitive (if any!) charge controller. I've been accumulating dead ones I find cheap so I can try to build a panel out of their solar cells, just because.
I'll just leave this here.
Why The Solar Roadway Is A Terrible Idea
If this is true, I think a bigger danger might have been missing the moon, but slingshotting it into who knows what trajectory.
I think you could say that it uses the discrete components equivalent of an ASIC or FPGA.
How is now different from before?
Fixed price contracts?
In fact, it's cold as hell.
It's easy, you just take a man and a woman, and give them eighteen years or so. That's 36 man years, but we should be able to speed it up by putting more people on the job!
I simply trust Mozilla to do the right thing
One word: Australis
(Don't mind me, Seamonkey user just passing through...)
"That's a very nice domain name registrar you have there, sir. It would be a real shame if... something were to happen to it. For instance, it might... break. Knowutimean, guv?"
I thought they were planning to use it to kill off the drop bears and cane toads.
since the Ctrl+W used for find in nano happens to close the current tab in Chrome and Firefox.
Ctrl-W / Command-W has always pissed me off, because W is right next to Q, and that causes me to exit from stuff when I'm just trying to close a window or tab.
As far as I know, that key mapping first appeared in Microsoft Word 1.0 for Macintosh. Back in those days, I would go into ResEdit and add a Command-K to File->Close in whatever programs I was using. It needed a key assigned, but I never thought W was a good choice.
Yes, it would be shocking to see a headline use "then" when it should use "than".
Oh wait, that's not so shocking after all because of our failure of an education system.
From the description in TFS, it sounds like it's a relative position system like inertial, but uses a different force (the Earth's magnetic field instead of inertia) to determine the relative position. GPS is completely different, generating an absolute position by measuring range to satellites (and sometimes ground stations) in known positions.
By "rotate", I meant point it in the right direction to begin with, not add a motor to the mast. Even then, I still have to get on a ladder every couple of months to twist the antenna around because its direction gets changed by the wind.
But it doesn't have more, either. So with the same carbon and less potassium, you can do the math.
Nope.
Sounds like more like an inertial navigation system, but one that uses the Earth's magnetic field instead of just being shaken around.
Exactly. This is in California? It's less likely to be recoverable than ANWAR, if only because the greenies would never let it be tapped because of NIMBY.
The thing is, it's only been in the past five years or so that I've noticed then/than being a problem at all, like it came out of nowhere. For a long time, the one that annoyed me the most was lose/loose. That one is still around, but it seems less common lately. And your/its/there have always been a problem.
Right on, and fuck the European date format too. YYYY-MM-DD 4evah!