I'm still not sure that it would work. I'm not an Electrical Engineer, but I question how much of a charge you would have to use to repel particles of signifigant size. Might be quite a drain on power. Also, the wires and their charge could cause interference with the solar cells, decreasing their efficiency.
That would add a lot of complexity. Right now, the arm on the two rovers and Pathfinder only had to really move from level to down to the surface. You would have to make the arm reach up and over the rover.
Additionally, the arm would have to be longer to reach the tag and pull the tear-off the full length of the panels.
For example's sake, stand up straight, take your arm and imagine pulling a tear-off from the top of your head, along your back, to your feet while remaining standing straight (no bending the knees). Watch the motion of your arm and it's a pretty complex motion. Not to mention, your arm's reach will stop somewhere around your knees.
Unfortunately, it probably wouldn't work so well outside where there is an endless supply of dust. Your desk is a semi-controlled environment where the house/office is eliminating most of the dust from the outside.
You have to wipe those "ionic breeze" things clean after awhile. Now you've got two dirty elements: the solars panels and the thing that's supposed to clean the panels. How do you clean the cleaners?
Also, the suggestion puts more load on the electrical system.
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Because of the whole iPod package: small size, great interface, and good styling. Previous to the iPod, the HD-based players were large and/or clunky. There just wasn't that came close to the iPod.
New HD-based players have now seen the gold standard of the iPod and copying that.
The United States Mints also makes collectibles in addition to circulation coins. I think it's very common for the large mints to produce non-circulation coins. It's a good source of uhhh... extra money.:-)
Remember in the First Gulf War, when they couldn't fly them because the sand damaged their engines? The Cobras flew in that, no problem.
At the beginning of the war, sand was an issue, but it was resolved and the Apaches flew just fine. You do recall that the first shots of Desert Storm were from Apaches, right?
They do have a twin system here, but having one here isn't quite the same as the two on Mars. You can't replicate everything on the two Mars rovers such as the science data files.
When Spirit was turned around on it's lander, they tested the moves on it's twin here, hence the long delay getting off the lander.
Apple sold debt in 1994 that was due in February 2004 (10 year debt). For examples sake (and easy math), Apple said to bond holders: "Loan me $100,000 and I'll pay you 6.5% interest. On February 2004, I'll pay you back $100,000. However, instead of giving me $100,000, I'll let you give me $99,925 today (99.925% of par), but still give you back $100,000 in February 2004." The bond holder make the 6.5% interest and an extra $75. The "effective yield" is that 6.5% plus the $75.
The interest rate swaps are a little harder to explain. Essentially, Apple is covering themselves in case of large interest rate swings.
If you would like to read up on bond things, you might want to look at the Bond Market Association Publication list. Click the PDF links. The prices listed are for if you want a hard copy.
The Russians have the ability to launch people up to ISS and stick satellites into orbit, but it's another thing to carry people and parts up to Hubble and then service it. Again, the only thing available that can do both at the same time is the Shuttle.
Privatizing Hubble isn't going to help if the thing needs a service mission. How is private enterprise going to service it, hmmm? There's only one game in town for servicing missions: the Shuttle.
And, no, X-Prize stuff and "we'll build something" doesn't count. By the time anything gets off the drawing boards to get a sevice mission up to Hubble, it will probably be too far gone to be worth fixing.
I rummaged around Google and found that Burrell Smith left Apple and formed Radius. Checking the Internet Wayback Machine, Radius sold the monitors tech to miro displays and renamed itself to Digital Origin. Digital Origin merged with Media 100. However, Burrell Smith seems to have disappeared.
I'd be curious on where everybody in these stories currently are. Well, we know what Steve Jobs is up to.
The press is dying for bad news because bad news sells, unfortuantely. Watch your local news: the lead story is usually some murder, robbery, criminal act. It's never "happy" news.
AFP Server: Improves AFP over the 2003-12-19 security update.
Apache 1.3: Fixes CAN-2003-0542, a buffer overflow in the mod_alias
and mod_rewrite modules of the Apache webserver.
Apache 2: Fixes CAN-2003-0542 and CAN-2003-0789 by updating Apache
2.0.47 to 2.0.48. Installed only on Server systems.
Classic: Fixes CAN-2004-0089 to improve the handling of environment
variables. Credit to Dave G. of @stake for reporting this issue.
Mail: Fixes CAN-2004-0085 and CAN-2004-0086 to deliver security
enhancements to Apple's mail application. Credit to Jim Roepcke
for reporting CAN-2004-0086.
Safari: Fixes CAN-2004-0092 by delivering security enhancements to
the Safari web browser.
System Configuration: Fixes CAN-2004-0087 and CAN-2004-0088 where the
SystemConfiguration subsystem allowed remote non-admin users to
change network setting and make configuration changes to configd.
Credit to Dave G. from @stake for reporting these issues.
Windows File Sharing: Fixes CAN-2004-0090 where Windows file sharing
did not shutdown properly.
(The update also incorporates the patches from Security Update 2003-12-19.)
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I'm still not sure that it would work. I'm not an Electrical Engineer, but I question how much of a charge you would have to use to repel particles of signifigant size. Might be quite a drain on power. Also, the wires and their charge could cause interference with the solar cells, decreasing their efficiency.
That would add a lot of complexity. Right now, the arm on the two rovers and Pathfinder only had to really move from level to down to the surface. You would have to make the arm reach up and over the rover.
Additionally, the arm would have to be longer to reach the tag and pull the tear-off the full length of the panels.
For example's sake, stand up straight, take your arm and imagine pulling a tear-off from the top of your head, along your back, to your feet while remaining standing straight (no bending the knees). Watch the motion of your arm and it's a pretty complex motion. Not to mention, your arm's reach will stop somewhere around your knees.
You have to wipe those "ionic breeze" things clean after awhile. Now you've got two dirty elements: the solars panels and the thing that's supposed to clean the panels. How do you clean the cleaners?
Also, the suggestion puts more load on the electrical system.
New HD-based players have now seen the gold standard of the iPod and copying that.
The United States Mints also makes collectibles in addition to circulation coins. I think it's very common for the large mints to produce non-circulation coins. It's a good source of uhhh... extra money. :-)
At the beginning of the war, sand was an issue, but it was resolved and the Apaches flew just fine. You do recall that the first shots of Desert Storm were from Apaches, right?
All of Apple Support things seems to trail by about a day. Things must be published at a set schedule.
When Spirit was turned around on it's lander, they tested the moves on it's twin here, hence the long delay getting off the lander.
Apple sold debt in 1994 that was due in February 2004 (10 year debt). For examples sake (and easy math), Apple said to bond holders: "Loan me $100,000 and I'll pay you 6.5% interest. On February 2004, I'll pay you back $100,000. However, instead of giving me $100,000, I'll let you give me $99,925 today (99.925% of par), but still give you back $100,000 in February 2004." The bond holder make the 6.5% interest and an extra $75. The "effective yield" is that 6.5% plus the $75.
The interest rate swaps are a little harder to explain. Essentially, Apple is covering themselves in case of large interest rate swings.
If you would like to read up on bond things, you might want to look at the Bond Market Association Publication list. Click the PDF links. The prices listed are for if you want a hard copy.
The Russians have the ability to launch people up to ISS and stick satellites into orbit, but it's another thing to carry people and parts up to Hubble and then service it. Again, the only thing available that can do both at the same time is the Shuttle.
And, no, X-Prize stuff and "we'll build something" doesn't count. By the time anything gets off the drawing boards to get a sevice mission up to Hubble, it will probably be too far gone to be worth fixing.
Has anybody heard any news about a MacOS X port?
You must have not played with very many LEGO, as if you did, you would not exactly what sound she is referring to.
I'd be curious on where everybody in these stories currently are. Well, we know what Steve Jobs is up to.
The press is dying for bad news because bad news sells, unfortuantely. Watch your local news: the lead story is usually some murder, robbery, criminal act. It's never "happy" news.
According to Macintouch, here are the fixes:
- AFP Server: Improves AFP over the 2003-12-19 security update.
- Apache 1.3: Fixes CAN-2003-0542, a buffer overflow in the mod_alias
and mod_rewrite modules of the Apache webserver.
- Apache 2: Fixes CAN-2003-0542 and CAN-2003-0789 by updating Apache
2.0.47 to 2.0.48. Installed only on Server systems.
- Classic: Fixes CAN-2004-0089 to improve the handling of environment
variables. Credit to Dave G. of @stake for reporting this issue.
- Mail: Fixes CAN-2004-0085 and CAN-2004-0086 to deliver security
enhancements to Apple's mail application. Credit to Jim Roepcke
for reporting CAN-2004-0086.
- Safari: Fixes CAN-2004-0092 by delivering security enhancements to
the Safari web browser.
- System Configuration: Fixes CAN-2004-0087 and CAN-2004-0088 where the
SystemConfiguration subsystem allowed remote non-admin users to
change network setting and make configuration changes to configd.
Credit to Dave G. from @stake for reporting these issues.
- Windows File Sharing: Fixes CAN-2004-0090 where Windows file sharing
did not shutdown properly.
(The update also incorporates the patches from Security Update 2003-12-19.)Were these supposed to be the avalanche victims?
The Security Update changes are listed in this Tech Note. However, the newest one isn't listed just yet.
So we're still not sure what it does...
See this Computerworld article or visit Matrics, the company supplying the tags.
Try the FTC or your state's Attorney General.
That stands to reason since America's Army is supposed to be realistic unlike other FPS games. Sniper/Scount School is very difficult.
If I remember right (I'm not a Mac programmer), fat binaries are for mixing 68K and PPC code, not different PPC code.
Viz runs on Unix, Linux, or Windows according to the site, so it could be any number of GUIs.
I think what the mission manager said summed it up pretty good: "brave, not stupid". Spaceflight.now
...you really don't get it.