Once everything is up and running, this is going to beat the hell out of dropbox for actual file usage. Now I can just mirror my mom's entire home directory across her desktop and two laptops, rather than just 2gb of storage for her my documents folder.
RDP via VPN is very usable, and it will only get better. RDP from windows to windows machines is very, very good. It's one of the very few things Microsoft does better than anybody else. VirtualBox has excellent RDP support as well, and it's extremely fast and easy to use.
Thin clients have finally arrived... just in a way nobody ever expected.
NASA will likely select a launch vehicle down the road and fund it separately. Being the ISS, it's possible that they will split the module cost with international partners, and then fund the rocket from their budget. Or one of many other options. Bigelow doesn't have their own rocket program so it wouldn't make sense to roll the launch vehicle into the same invoice.
2. cutting out simple sugars/carbs makes it vastly easier to cut calories out of your diet. minimizing carbs (basically anything at 7-11, as it has a shelf life of about five years) and maximizing fats/protein means that your calorie density is going to be much lower, it will take longer to digest, and in general, you'll feel full longer. simple carbs is like eating high octane jet fuel for running marathons, and then sitting on the couch. you don't burn it so your body converts it to fat while you type passive aggressive emails to your boss and coworkers
at the end of the day if you want to lose weight, calories in calories out, but smart dieting makes this a lot less painful. if you decide to diet using only multivitamins and cans of coke, you're going to be starving all the time with wild mood swings due to your blood sugar spiking every couple of hours.
The DC-X program never made it above 10,000 ft and didn't have a follow-on project*, while the Ares I-X was an avionics package with a dummy load quite literally strapped to the top of a spare Space Shuttle SRB. The only reason the Shuttle survived as long as it did was inertia and the fact that nobody wanted to stand up and throw money at a new manned spaceflight program after the embarrassment that was the Shuttle. Thank god the Shuttle (while awesome) is dead and we can use much safer (and cheaper) technology now.
*unless you want to count the X-33, which as it turned out proved that SSTO is a terrible idea. SpaceX may yet beat the entire United States defense industry to a fully reusable manned spaceflight program with their grasshopper prototype that they've been actively testing.
This is somewhat disingenuous. Physics is physics and rocket technology hasn't improved much since the Centaur (hydrogen rocket) engine in the mid-1960s because they're already getting close to the theoretical maximum energy from chemical rockets. This is sort of like saying we shouldn't develop spoons and forks at the turn of the last millennium because by 1935 we'll have developed the spork. Cutlery has been a mature technology for about two thousand years now, and you can't really improve on it. Short of FTL travel we're looking at scramjets and multigenerational probes.
Rockets take forever to plan and build, especially at the government level. SpaceX (a lean "startup" company) was founded 10 years ago and just this year started regular commercial service. Boeing, Lockheed/ULA are going to drag their feet for 15-20 years to develop a new launch system.
A 10 year plan is actually ambitious. Space Travel is Hard. The Orion capsule has been a complete disaster, they've been working on it since 2005, and the parachute tests have been such abject failures that they've actually reclassified the test flights to "materials testing" so that it wouldn't be as obvious that their parachute system had failed five times in a row over four years. More recently the "flight ready" capsule failed it's overpressure test (hope the cooling system doesn't fail!) and cracked a bulkhead.
10 years for a new space program is ambitious, right up there with building a new jetliner like the A380 or 747, except that the stakes are much higher. You can't just buy a human rated spacecraft off the shelf (unless you're Russian) and start your own space program (unless you're Chinese)
If I had to guess, the isotopic version is probably missing or has an extra ion (or two or three), which makes it easier for the ion engine to accelerate it using the same power output. The mass difference is probably negilible, but you could accelerate the same mass using less power (say, 3.5kw instead of 7kw)
Xenon doesn't have a whole lot of uses here on earth. It's an inert (noble) gas. Ion engines aren't terribly useful for moving living beings around as they wouldn't accelerate an object (and it's life support systems) out of LEO and to Mars before the occupants either starved or died of cancer. Chemical rockets aren't as efficient, but at least they can get you to Mars in under 9 months. A very loose analogy would be crossing the Atlantic in an open 8' rowboat vs flying across in a jet powered 747.
What you describe could arguably be called "getting old". My weight increase coincided roughly with the thinning of my hair in my mid-20s and getting a job that involved a desk. Remedied by diet restriction and exercise. No cure for the hair yet, though.
Also if you have a Crucial M4 make sure you have the correct firmware as Crucial keeps releasing/shipping units with buggy firmware updates that can brick your drive.
OCZ Vertex drives have had a consistently 5% return rate (that's 1 in 20) since May 2012 now. I would stay the hell away from the Vertexes in particular, as they're closer to 7%, the company as a whole is closer to 5%. Granted, that's return rate, not confirmed failure, but a return rate that's been consistently ten times higher than the rest of their competition should give you pause when buying cheap hardware. Compare to 0.5% for manufacturers like Intel and Samsung.
Nokia had a hostile takeover by Microsoft, I think Dell's case is that they completely failed to enter the Android market with any sort of innovative or well marketed product. Nokia was doing just fine until they burnt their non-windows phone product lines to the ground.
My observations have shown that the upper middle class, "work hard, play hard" group smoke a whole lot of weed. In particular, those in Buisness Administration and Sales. Racecars, sailboats, girlfriends, houses and the lifestyle that comes with that can easily top half a million dollars. If you ignore debt the average American family probably owns close to a quarter million dollars in assets (including their house).
Yep. Obviously during the winter, cloudy days and at night you produce less to no energy, but you can certainly drive your air conditioning unit on hot days at a bare minimum, which is the primary cost of residential electricity here in Texas.
House was built in 1922, windows (single pane! argh!) were all sealed shut to keep the hot air out (and/or cool air in). Actually it would be really amusing to keep my computer outside in a doghouse outside, with just HDMI, eithernet, and USB running inside. With widespread adoption of thunderbolt just around the corner, I suppose you could limit that to a single cable.
The big factor for me is: how much heat does it put out? Texas in the summer can be brutal, and anything to keep my office half a degree cooler helps tremendously, especially in the era of multiple monitors. Higher efficiency = less waste heat.
Can we keep the reddit imgur spam on reddit please? If you can't explain your point in complete paragraphs without an image macro for assistance, you might want to look elsewhere.
And yet, if you dig straight down anywhere on planet earth 50 ft, it's a comfortable 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Much like your kitchen stove and living room, the stove can get very hot, but has very little effect on the other due to differences in thermal mass.
Somewhere near the bottom of the crater, there's a very good chance that there's cracks or caves soaked in organically rich liquid water somewhere under the surface. That kind of stable incubator is better suited for life than the six week old sandwich you left in the fridge since last year.
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Once everything is up and running, this is going to beat the hell out of dropbox for actual file usage. Now I can just mirror my mom's entire home directory across her desktop and two laptops, rather than just 2gb of storage for her my documents folder.
Until recently (October 2012?) their google searches were sent in plaintext. Now they're sent via SSL.
RDP via VPN is very usable, and it will only get better. RDP from windows to windows machines is very, very good. It's one of the very few things Microsoft does better than anybody else. VirtualBox has excellent RDP support as well, and it's extremely fast and easy to use.
Thin clients have finally arrived... just in a way nobody ever expected.
Source? The article is leaning towards some absurdly huge prototype thing.
NASA will likely select a launch vehicle down the road and fund it separately. Being the ISS, it's possible that they will split the module cost with international partners, and then fund the rocket from their budget. Or one of many other options. Bigelow doesn't have their own rocket program so it wouldn't make sense to roll the launch vehicle into the same invoice.
2. cutting out simple sugars/carbs makes it vastly easier to cut calories out of your diet. minimizing carbs (basically anything at 7-11, as it has a shelf life of about five years) and maximizing fats/protein means that your calorie density is going to be much lower, it will take longer to digest, and in general, you'll feel full longer. simple carbs is like eating high octane jet fuel for running marathons, and then sitting on the couch. you don't burn it so your body converts it to fat while you type passive aggressive emails to your boss and coworkers
at the end of the day if you want to lose weight, calories in calories out, but smart dieting makes this a lot less painful. if you decide to diet using only multivitamins and cans of coke, you're going to be starving all the time with wild mood swings due to your blood sugar spiking every couple of hours.
The DC-X program never made it above 10,000 ft and didn't have a follow-on project*, while the Ares I-X was an avionics package with a dummy load quite literally strapped to the top of a spare Space Shuttle SRB. The only reason the Shuttle survived as long as it did was inertia and the fact that nobody wanted to stand up and throw money at a new manned spaceflight program after the embarrassment that was the Shuttle. Thank god the Shuttle (while awesome) is dead and we can use much safer (and cheaper) technology now.
*unless you want to count the X-33, which as it turned out proved that SSTO is a terrible idea. SpaceX may yet beat the entire United States defense industry to a fully reusable manned spaceflight program with their grasshopper prototype that they've been actively testing.
This is somewhat disingenuous. Physics is physics and rocket technology hasn't improved much since the Centaur (hydrogen rocket) engine in the mid-1960s because they're already getting close to the theoretical maximum energy from chemical rockets. This is sort of like saying we shouldn't develop spoons and forks at the turn of the last millennium because by 1935 we'll have developed the spork. Cutlery has been a mature technology for about two thousand years now, and you can't really improve on it. Short of FTL travel we're looking at scramjets and multigenerational probes.
Rockets take forever to plan and build, especially at the government level. SpaceX (a lean "startup" company) was founded 10 years ago and just this year started regular commercial service. Boeing, Lockheed/ULA are going to drag their feet for 15-20 years to develop a new launch system.
A 10 year plan is actually ambitious. Space Travel is Hard. The Orion capsule has been a complete disaster, they've been working on it since 2005, and the parachute tests have been such abject failures that they've actually reclassified the test flights to "materials testing" so that it wouldn't be as obvious that their parachute system had failed five times in a row over four years. More recently the "flight ready" capsule failed it's overpressure test (hope the cooling system doesn't fail!) and cracked a bulkhead.
10 years for a new space program is ambitious, right up there with building a new jetliner like the A380 or 747, except that the stakes are much higher. You can't just buy a human rated spacecraft off the shelf (unless you're Russian) and start your own space program (unless you're Chinese)
If I had to guess, the isotopic version is probably missing or has an extra ion (or two or three), which makes it easier for the ion engine to accelerate it using the same power output. The mass difference is probably negilible, but you could accelerate the same mass using less power (say, 3.5kw instead of 7kw)
Xenon doesn't have a whole lot of uses here on earth. It's an inert (noble) gas. Ion engines aren't terribly useful for moving living beings around as they wouldn't accelerate an object (and it's life support systems) out of LEO and to Mars before the occupants either starved or died of cancer. Chemical rockets aren't as efficient, but at least they can get you to Mars in under 9 months. A very loose analogy would be crossing the Atlantic in an open 8' rowboat vs flying across in a jet powered 747.
What you describe could arguably be called "getting old". My weight increase coincided roughly with the thinning of my hair in my mid-20s and getting a job that involved a desk. Remedied by diet restriction and exercise. No cure for the hair yet, though.
With no-name Chinese manufacturers churning out 7", $80 android tablets by the millions, somehow I don't think this is true.
I'm not sure you understand how percentages work.
Here are the hard numbers for anyone who's curious:
http://www.behardware.com/articles/881-7/components-returns-rates-7.html
- Intel 0.45% (against 1.73%)
- Samsung 0.48% (N/A)
- Corsair 1.05% (against 2.93%)
- Crucial 1.11% (against 0.82%)
- OCZ 5.02% (against 7.03%)
Return rates specifically for OCZ models:
- 40.00% for the OCZ Petrol 64 GB
- 39.42% for the OCZ Petrol 128 GB
- 30.85% for the OCZ Octane 128 GB SATA II
- 29.46% for the OCZ Octane 64 GB SATA II
- 9.73% for the OCZ Vertex 2 120 GB 3.5"
- 9.59% for the OCZ Vertex 2 120 GB
- 6.73% for the OCZ Vertex 2 60 GB
- 5.43% for the OCZ Agility 3 240 GB
- 5.12% for the OCZ Vertex Plus 128 GB
Also if you have a Crucial M4 make sure you have the correct firmware as Crucial keeps releasing/shipping units with buggy firmware updates that can brick your drive.
OCZ Vertex drives have had a consistently 5% return rate (that's 1 in 20) since May 2012 now. I would stay the hell away from the Vertexes in particular, as they're closer to 7%, the company as a whole is closer to 5%. Granted, that's return rate, not confirmed failure, but a return rate that's been consistently ten times higher than the rest of their competition should give you pause when buying cheap hardware. Compare to 0.5% for manufacturers like Intel and Samsung.
Nokia had a hostile takeover by Microsoft, I think Dell's case is that they completely failed to enter the Android market with any sort of innovative or well marketed product. Nokia was doing just fine until they burnt their non-windows phone product lines to the ground.
My observations have shown that the upper middle class, "work hard, play hard" group smoke a whole lot of weed. In particular, those in Buisness Administration and Sales. Racecars, sailboats, girlfriends, houses and the lifestyle that comes with that can easily top half a million dollars. If you ignore debt the average American family probably owns close to a quarter million dollars in assets (including their house).
Yep. Obviously during the winter, cloudy days and at night you produce less to no energy, but you can certainly drive your air conditioning unit on hot days at a bare minimum, which is the primary cost of residential electricity here in Texas.
House was built in 1922, windows (single pane! argh!) were all sealed shut to keep the hot air out (and/or cool air in). Actually it would be really amusing to keep my computer outside in a doghouse outside, with just HDMI, eithernet, and USB running inside. With widespread adoption of thunderbolt just around the corner, I suppose you could limit that to a single cable.
The big factor for me is: how much heat does it put out? Texas in the summer can be brutal, and anything to keep my office half a degree cooler helps tremendously, especially in the era of multiple monitors. Higher efficiency = less waste heat.
Can we keep the reddit imgur spam on reddit please? If you can't explain your point in complete paragraphs without an image macro for assistance, you might want to look elsewhere.
Sure, but at least they're really nice about it.
I have yet to find someone who will take money to fix the DX11 bug in Mumble.
And yet, if you dig straight down anywhere on planet earth 50 ft, it's a comfortable 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Much like your kitchen stove and living room, the stove can get very hot, but has very little effect on the other due to differences in thermal mass.
Somewhere near the bottom of the crater, there's a very good chance that there's cracks or caves soaked in organically rich liquid water somewhere under the surface. That kind of stable incubator is better suited for life than the six week old sandwich you left in the fridge since last year.