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The Cassini probe has his own blog.
Anthropomorphized space probe's blogs started in January, and got more popular last month when some JPL'ers started ones for the GOES and FUSE satellites. Here is a list of 14 active space probe's blogs.
I've got a friend who's at Standard and Poors, where Ventura is used to publish thousands of pages a month. Reports that include single tables that go on for 50+ pages. A few years ago he was given the task of figuring out how to make Quark do the same reports. With $10,000 worth of plug ins, plus some custom development on a plug in, Quark could do most, but not all of what Ventura was doing.
I was a beta tester for Photoshop's first windows version when I was working at a photo lab trying to market a PC optimized for photographers. Brian Lamkin (head of photoshop division) stopped by the lab, and we showed him how the Shima Sekie (a $300K retouching system) worked with a trackball and tablet. The retoucher could scroll around or zoom with the trackball while painting with the tablet.
We then showed him our PC with Kurta tablet and trackball with button remapped to the shift key, so as a kludge it was working similarly to the Shima. A few weeks later we heard from Adobe that they decided it wasn't worthwhile for them to make the changes needed to support multiple inputs that acted differently (one as view one as paint) in the program.
from the site: "island unidentified on most maps. On the few where it can be found,"
that's a very different statement than what you quoted.
and if Open Source was a serious option, it would succeed in the marketplace without all the self-serving and hysteria the Slashdot site is brim full of.
>>You didn't read the book, yet you were impressed by the thoroughness of his research? Yikes, you must have ESP or something!
I KNEW you were gonna say that {grin}
>>You could gain knowledge of his "research" without reading the book? You actually know that he has detailed the "politics, lies and incompentence" surrounding the lab, but you didn't read the book?
I did listen to him for an hour talking about what's in the book, and the audio interview, and many of the reviews including the Newsday one. So, yes, I know some of what's in the book without reading it.
>>Or maybe you're just a gullible idiot who listens to Art Bell....
Naw, I've heard much more James Randi than Bell. I'm a believer in not attributing to malevolence which can be explained by incompetence. In fact, Carroll made the point several times that he didn't think the only solution is to shut the lab down, he thought adaquate funding and better management could fix the problems.
>>corporate lawyers are experts on biological research safety standards and practices. Sheesh.
so if a lawyer said there was a bug in your software, you'd dismiss it because he's not a programmer? Haven't you ever caught mistakes outside your field of expertise? Even if you dismiss everything Carroll himself says, you can't dismiss the the reports that he shines a light on, reports by the EPA and NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, who fined the lab for high levels of Fecal Coliform in the sewage being dumped.
Michael Christopher Carroll's new book Lab 257 details the politics, lies and incompetence that surrounds the lab. While I haven't read the book yet, I did see him speak at B&N a few weeks ago when he kicked off the book tour. I was impressed by the thouroughness of his research (he had a few of the people who helped him there), getting the original documents from the National archives, comfirming stories by interviewing multiple witnesses, and speaking to the son of the man who started the lab.
He has done an audio interview on rense.com and onNPR (can't find the link)
What he describes sounds similar to the problems laid out by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.
The credits of aired shows gives you a nice list of production companies and people you can contact. Might also help to look into finding corporate/foundation sponsership for the show.
From the NASA site:
2.27.04 - Implementation Plan for International Space Station Continuing Flight - NASA releases an update to its plan demonstrating a commitment to implementing the recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, where applicable, to the International Space Station program.
nope, it doesn't. Some campus movie groups got nailed when they tried showing movies for free, but charged for the popcorn. Even without the popcorn it's a violation. just read the FBI warning....
Since 1982 Tom Wisker has hosted the radio show
Weaponry on WBAI in New York city.
The show covers military history, weapons, and aviation. He's been covering the Comanche program since its inception, and has recently covered the current role of helicoptors in combat.
The show airs Tuesdays nights at 1:30 AM (so technically thats Wednesday morning) and can be heard over the internet.
Unfortunatly, there's no archives of the show.
While wbai is a very liberal station, the show is very balanced, offending both liberals and conservatives by just concentrating on the facts of the subjects covered.
The show isn't just talk, to get occasional breaks he plays "totally inapropriate music" which is how I first heard Lucinda Williams.
from the page at SPACE STUDIES INSTITUTE which describes their physical simulator available for loan to schools
Since the Moon is about 400,000 kilometers from the Earth, the one-way signal time at the speed of light (300,000 km/sec) is about 1.3 seconds. Thus if a person on Earth sends a Moon rover a command, the rover responds at least 1.3 seconds later, and the Earth operator observes the response no sooner than 2.6 seconds after the signal left the Earth antenna. With allowances for hops to and from synchronous communication satellites plus any internal system delays, a three-second response delay is likely.
"I'm not interested in fancy/artistic things like video editing on my computer, I just want high quality video," the 640x480 mode is only 10fps, which isn't good
once the card is filled, what does he do with it? A DV tape can just be stored. To offload the memory card requires a computer to be used, something he specifies that he does not want to do.
"I plan to use it for my summer vacation" just how many $200 memory cards does he need to bring?
the "client" listed his specs. Your reccomendation did not meet his specs. While a ram based recorder is a neat idea, the tech's just not there yet for his needs.
The guy can spend up to $1K and you recomend a toy? the lens is garbarge compared to a real camera, and it doesn't zoom. see http://www.dansdata.com/cooldv350.htm
Many of the midrange DV cameras have a still mode, and can take flash memory cards
there's plenty of existing motors driving the wheels, arm, camera, etc. Something could do double duty to remove a protective sheet.
One possible senario: pryo charge releases a net which wraps around a rock. String connects net to plastic film on solar cells. Rover drives away, leaving behind dusty film. Possible science benefit if rock can be dragged before final detachment of film.
Before OSX, Apple developed a K-12 programming environment called Coca.
It's now cross platform (java), and available from Stagecast
Looks like it gives a great intro to OO programming, since every character is an object to which you can assign properties and behaviors.
As our population ages, there's going to be a need for technology that lies somewhere between a human home healthcare aid and "the clapper" / roomba / "I've fallen and can't get up" panic buttons.
Slashdot Mirror
The Cassini probe has his own blog.
Anthropomorphized space probe's blogs started in January, and got more popular last month when some JPL'ers started ones for the GOES and FUSE satellites.
Here is a list of 14 active space probe's blogs.
I've got a friend who's at Standard and Poors, where Ventura is used to publish thousands of pages a month. Reports that include single tables that go on for 50+ pages.
A few years ago he was given the task of figuring out how to make Quark do the same reports. With $10,000 worth of plug ins, plus some custom development on a plug in, Quark could do most, but not all of what Ventura was doing.
Add a Tonya Harding and her "friends" and you may be onto something here....
I was a beta tester for Photoshop's first windows version when I was working at a photo lab trying to market a PC optimized for photographers.
Brian Lamkin (head of photoshop division) stopped by the lab, and we showed him how the Shima Sekie (a $300K retouching system) worked with a trackball and tablet. The retoucher could scroll around or zoom with the trackball while painting with the tablet.
We then showed him our PC with Kurta tablet and trackball with button remapped to the shift key, so as a kludge it was working similarly to the Shima.
A few weeks later we heard from Adobe that they decided it wasn't worthwhile for them to make the changes needed to support multiple inputs that acted differently (one as view one as paint) in the program.
from the site:
"island unidentified on most maps. On the few where it can be found,"
that's a very different statement than what you quoted.
and if Open Source was a serious option, it would succeed in the marketplace without all the self-serving and hysteria the Slashdot site is brim full of.
>>You didn't read the book, yet you were impressed by the thoroughness of his research? Yikes, you must have ESP or something!
I KNEW you were gonna say that {grin}
>>You could gain knowledge of his "research" without reading the book? You actually know that he has detailed the "politics, lies and incompentence" surrounding the lab, but you didn't read the book?
I did listen to him for an hour talking about what's in the book, and the audio interview, and many of the reviews including the Newsday one. So, yes, I know some of what's in the book without reading it.
>>Or maybe you're just a gullible idiot who listens to Art Bell....
Naw, I've heard much more James Randi than Bell. I'm a believer in not attributing to malevolence which can be explained by incompetence. In fact, Carroll made the point several times that he didn't think the only solution is to shut the lab down, he thought adaquate funding and better management could fix the problems.
>>corporate lawyers are experts on biological research safety standards and practices. Sheesh.
so if a lawyer said there was a bug in your software, you'd dismiss it because he's not a programmer? Haven't you ever caught mistakes outside your field of expertise?
Even if you dismiss everything Carroll himself says, you can't dismiss the the reports that he shines a light on, reports by the EPA and NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, who fined the lab for high levels of Fecal Coliform in the sewage being dumped.
He has done an audio interview on rense.com and onNPR (can't find the link)
What he describes sounds similar to the problems laid out by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.
because the funds for it were spent on a new gym and landscaping.
seriously.
It's documented in the book "Lab 257"
The credits of aired shows gives you a nice list of production companies and people you can contact.
Might also help to look into finding corporate/foundation sponsership for the show.
From the NASA site:
2.27.04 - Implementation Plan for International Space Station Continuing Flight - NASA releases an update to its plan demonstrating a commitment to implementing the recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, where applicable, to the International Space Station program.
+ Read the Plan (3.5Mb PDF)
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nope, it doesn't. Some campus movie groups got nailed when they tried showing movies for free, but charged for the popcorn.
Even without the popcorn it's a violation. just read the FBI warning....
my bad, I ment tommorrow night in the above headline
The show covers military history, weapons, and aviation. He's been covering the Comanche program since its inception, and has recently covered the current role of helicoptors in combat.
The show airs Tuesdays nights at 1:30 AM (so technically thats Wednesday morning) and can be heard over the internet.
Unfortunatly, there's no archives of the show. While wbai is a very liberal station, the show is very balanced, offending both liberals and conservatives by just concentrating on the facts of the subjects covered.
The show isn't just talk, to get occasional breaks he plays "totally inapropriate music" which is how I first heard Lucinda Williams.
I thought the book came from Microsoft Press
Since the Moon is about 400,000 kilometers from the Earth, the one-way signal time at the speed of light (300,000 km/sec) is about 1.3 seconds. Thus if a person on Earth sends a Moon rover a command, the rover responds at least 1.3 seconds later, and the Earth operator observes the response no sooner than 2.6 seconds after the signal left the Earth antenna. With allowances for hops to and from synchronous communication satellites plus any internal system delays, a three-second response delay is likely.
"I'm not interested in fancy/artistic things like video editing on my computer, I just want high quality video,"
the 640x480 mode is only 10fps, which isn't good
once the card is filled, what does he do with it? A DV tape can just be stored. To offload the memory card requires a computer to be used, something he specifies that he does not want to do.
"I plan to use it for my summer vacation"
just how many $200 memory cards does he need to bring?
the "client" listed his specs. Your reccomendation did not meet his specs. While a ram based recorder is a neat idea, the tech's just not there yet for his needs.
The guy can spend up to $1K and you recomend a toy?
the lens is garbarge compared to a real camera, and it doesn't zoom. see http://www.dansdata.com/cooldv350.htm
Many of the midrange DV cameras have a still mode, and can take flash memory cards
"anything that I create wether or not during company time, and wether or not it relates"
there's plenty of existing motors driving the wheels, arm, camera, etc. Something could do double duty to remove a protective sheet.
One possible senario: pryo charge releases a net which wraps around a rock. String connects net to plastic film on solar cells. Rover drives away, leaving behind dusty film. Possible science benefit if rock can be dragged before final detachment of film.
It's now cross platform (java), and available from Stagecast
Looks like it gives a great intro to OO programming, since every character is an object to which you can assign properties and behaviors.
"What's more worrying is the threat of satellite hunter-killer devices. Imagine if someone developed the technology to knock out the GPS grid"
umnn, you mean like a couple of dozen buckets of nails in counter rotating orbit?
that's cause the nimrods at NASA have a bad case of NIH (not invented here)
Orbital Recovery Corporation has proposed a solution, which I remember hearing would cost less than $300M
As our population ages, there's going to be a need for technology that lies somewhere between a human home healthcare aid and "the clapper" / roomba / "I've fallen and can't get up" panic buttons.