Such a feedback loop would probably be a bad idea because it would be too easy to tamper with the client software on the ground to send the satellite bad data, such as "Something is at coordinates (x,y,z)", and the satellite turns its fragile camera straight at the sun. Quite frankly, I wouldn't trust script kiddies with a $2.5 billion dollar telescope in space.
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If solar activity can knock out power to large sections of Canada ("The fifty-first state" indeed), then it would probably not take much to fry a delicate piece of electronics floating around without the atmosphere that protects us here. Maybe the satellite has special shielding or something, but there's enough wired connections down here on the ground that you can probably, for the most part, only use wireless to get a couple miles to the base station/cell tower/802.3 (# correct?) hub. Sure, if you're a l33t explorer in Antarctica or another place without dense-pack cell towers you might need a satellite, but not if you're in Calgary or New York.
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I remember my ancient Epson LX-86 dot-matrix printer came with a thick-ass manual that told you how to write a graphics engine in BASICA. If every hardware manufacturer had this type of manual now, we'd be in heaven in terms of hacked devices.
Now, though, you need a ton of C and/or C++ knowledge to do anything not involving HTML or Flash. If you don't have the skills, you can't pay the bills. In your position, I would first learn C, and then how the hardware works.
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I sure would like to be able to write to the evil half of my machine from the good. I curse the day when I converted my big-ass 20G partition from FAT32 (readable by all) to NTFS-NT5. Once I can read my MP3s again, I will be at peace...
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If the product is in an early stages of development, but still has enough features and codebase already present, it will benefit from Open Source. Linux was in the early stage of development when Linus released it for comments and additions, and look now.
On the other hand, if it is already at the end of it's functional lifetime, like StarOffice, releasing it publicly will probably result in its' cannibalization (sp?) and it will not evolve as quickly as competing products.
For the most part, if the product has few competitors, especially open-source competitors, it will do well as Open Souce. If a better Open Source app is already available, your product will not change much by Open-Sourcing it, unless it's far better than the alternative.
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Let's hope these missions are more like Pathfinder/Sojourner and not like Mars Explorer, Mars Global Surveyor, or either of the Russian ones that never made it. Mars Pathfinder can be regarded as one of the agency's greatest successes, and won NASA much good press until they failed to send yet another robot scout to Mars successfully.
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Second: I work at a high school, in an engineering technology class where all the dumb football players and stupid skaters and ninth-graders end up, and if you give students access to the network server, you're going to have all sorts of problems with porn, games, napster, e.t.c. By limiting network access through the simple means of taking the cords away, access is effectively controlled. However, when the incompetent boob running the IT shows up, things like this happen.
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Do you know what the IT guy where I work does when a machine gets messed up and would require troubleshooting?
"Uh oh! AutoCAD is missing a file!"
"What are you going to do? Copy that one file off of one of the 31 other computers running AutoCAD in here?"
"No, I think I'll re-ghost the machine from some old disk image I have hanging around. I assume nobody saves their important project on this computer."
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I really don't think that a single company could get the technology to trace everything that happens on the net, especially now that everybody seems to have broadband, and thousands of postings happen on usenet every minute. If they were tracking all this, they probably would have bragged earlier.
Still, I'm going to start using PGP again.
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Here's a really philosophical question: Do we want to leave this standard? Most Gnome (and through that, Linux) apps know how to use EsounD to output their digital stream to the soundcard, and through that, the user. If it gets replaced, and ceases to exist, what will all the sound-enabled programs do? Especially the ones for which development has ceased? Would the replacement be backward compatible? Would there be third-party patches? Or would some of us be doomed to play our old games in silence?
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The Matrix used a bunch of still cameras arranged in the correct shape to pull that one off. The cameras had their positions selected by a computer, fired by a computer, and they used a computer to do the background and interpolation between the still images. They really don't need a bunch of movie cameras because they already knew what path the viewer would follow.
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Possibly true, the prototyping nature of this camera would be sweet for something random and usually repeatable like a sneeze (even though that pepper trick in cartoons doesn't work). However, if it was a fairly predictable event, like a neighbor's sprinkler head getting blown off by water pressure (preferably while they work on it), film would be nice to have the extra resolution to capture every particle of dirt flying up from the ground and sandblasting their face.
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Know what would be sweet - if you could get these cameras, then blow up a crappy computer (I won't start a holy war), and post the video on your website. But, that whole plan requires insane amounts of money. Therefore, you can just type out a fabrication for almost nothing.
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Now I can take bad vacation videos of my family at disney world and post them online - but the videos will have a super-high framerate!!! Sweet!!!
But seriously, high-speed digital videos aren't as useful as high-speed film because film is at such a high resolution that the digital-ness of the new camera cannot offset it.
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There was a sketch on some late-night show (Letterman or Leno, possibly O'Brien) that was consoling Gates when his business was being chewed out by the government, that he didn't get it as bad as 'Clippy.'
Then it cut to a word processing screen, with the cartoon paperclip in the corner. A hand holding a revolver came in on the other side of the screen, and blew Clippy to bloody gibs.
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In my ninth-grade biology class, we learned that just about anything reacts with organic chemicals. Does this make the Organic LEDs prone to breakdown due to their reactiveness, or do these LEDs resist such natural decomposition?
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If this bad boy runs Linux, I might throw in a wireless networking card in this and my main machine, and I'll have a portable X server to use when I'm not in front of my desktop machine, such as in front of the TV, outside, etc...
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Life would probably not form, because a planet that is not directly affected by a star will not have an enivronment volatile and random enough for the random particles to collect and form self-replicating molecules.
The lack of tectonic activity mentioned in another post would mean that the core of the planet would not stay hot enough for life forms resembling those at the bottom of our oceans to survive for long.
However, if life did form, we might not recognize it for what it is. Sadly, by the time we get there, the planet would probably be a dark, dormant, and extremely boring rock, if it still existed.
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How do things like these loner planets form? From everything I've learned, planets form in clouds of particles surrounding stars. If there is no star for the particles to gather around, how did these planets form instead of just stray particles knock each other around? If the star they formed around ceased to exist, the process must not have destroyed the planets as was previously thought to happen. If these turn out to be real, we've got many a question to answer about how the universe works.
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The problem with the game boy/pocket/color is that there is no easy way to load a program into it short of burning a cartridge. The TI-73/82/83/85 have a serial port that allows the user to download a basic or assembly program into the calc's onboard memory of about 300K. This is why ticalc.org has hundreds of user-created programs for each calc TI makes.
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The Z80 processor finds its home currently in a far more compact device: TI Graphing Calculators. I have seen these controlling all sorts of things: infrared transmitters, light displays, and an affordable combination between educational calculator, and gaming machine.
The TI-83, the most popular one, retails for about $100, but is smaller, uses only 4 AAA batteries, has a serial port, and can be carried around in a pocket to show off your geekiness. Still, you could use the Sinclair ZX81 as sort of a base station, or one with an AC adapter and TV out. But never underestimate the utility of a programmable Z80 graphing calculator.
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Maybe they could call it some music-related name, to try and see if the RIAA will sue them. Visualize a robot pet called "Intergalactic," "Iron Man," "Mr. Roboto," or some other song reference.
In all likelihood, it will probably be a Japanese word that means something, like Aibo was. But here's a question for you: Was Aibo sold in Japan as "Companion"? (not sure about translation)
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Slashdot Mirror
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Our dial-a-song won't work for long;
Served us well, don't get me wrong;
I like pong, Dial-a-song.
Slashdot man, Slashdot man;
Killing dial-a-song is his plan;
Posting our number like so much spam;
Bastardly man, Slashdot man;
That's all I feel like beating out.
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Now, though, you need a ton of C and/or C++ knowledge to do anything not involving HTML or Flash. If you don't have the skills, you can't pay the bills. In your position, I would first learn C, and then how the hardware works.
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On the other hand, if it is already at the end of it's functional lifetime, like StarOffice, releasing it publicly will probably result in its' cannibalization (sp?) and it will not evolve as quickly as competing products.
For the most part, if the product has few competitors, especially open-source competitors, it will do well as Open Souce. If a better Open Source app is already available, your product will not change much by Open-Sourcing it, unless it's far better than the alternative.
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Second: I work at a high school, in an engineering technology class where all the dumb football players and stupid skaters and ninth-graders end up, and if you give students access to the network server, you're going to have all sorts of problems with porn, games, napster, e.t.c. By limiting network access through the simple means of taking the cords away, access is effectively controlled. However, when the incompetent boob running the IT shows up, things like this happen.
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"Uh oh! AutoCAD is missing a file!"
"What are you going to do? Copy that one file off of one of the 31 other computers running AutoCAD in here?"
"No, I think I'll re-ghost the machine from some old disk image I have hanging around. I assume nobody saves their important project on this computer."
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Still, I'm going to start using PGP again.
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But seriously, high-speed digital videos aren't as useful as high-speed film because film is at such a high resolution that the digital-ness of the new camera cannot offset it.
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Then it cut to a word processing screen, with the cartoon paperclip in the corner. A hand holding a revolver came in on the other side of the screen, and blew Clippy to bloody gibs.
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The lack of tectonic activity mentioned in another post would mean that the core of the planet would not stay hot enough for life forms resembling those at the bottom of our oceans to survive for long.
However, if life did form, we might not recognize it for what it is. Sadly, by the time we get there, the planet would probably be a dark, dormant, and extremely boring rock, if it still existed.
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The TI-83, the most popular one, retails for about $100, but is smaller, uses only 4 AAA batteries, has a serial port, and can be carried around in a pocket to show off your geekiness. Still, you could use the Sinclair ZX81 as sort of a base station, or one with an AC adapter and TV out. But never underestimate the utility of a programmable Z80 graphing calculator.
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In all likelihood, it will probably be a Japanese word that means something, like Aibo was. But here's a question for you: Was Aibo sold in Japan as "Companion"? (not sure about translation)
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