The article mentions that Galileo wont be destroyed until it takes part in joint observations with Cassini at the end of the year. Two Questions
1> Is it wise to risk Cassini a craft which has not yet started on its main mission alongside a decrepit old craft like Galileo long past its lifetime. What if Galileo collides with Cassini or causes some interference or the like. Obviously these craft were not degigned keeping in mind a joint mission and may have interfering control frequencies and like
2>On a lighter note if NASA can mix up feet and meters what if they mix them up and crash Cassini and send Galileo to Saturn;)
Weel if photonics result in chips running cooler where will I do my cooking. At present I use my Pentium 3 and its as good as a microwave. I was looking forward to using the Penttiom 4 for outdoor barbecues
Sure India wants to go to Pluto And hang around a space station for decades but wouldnt people laugh at them if they attempted anything like that before they had even done something so boring,routine and easy as sending an orbuter to the moon Wake up and smell the coffee . Just because the US can do it doesnt mean they share the technology with other nations especially third world coloured non christian nations and if they want to do something about it they have no option but to reinvent the wheel
There are a lot of materials available and as the article states some of them have been tested to last upto 3 years in orbit and others with decades of lifetime are on the design board The shot about carbon nanotubes basically shows your ignorance aboutthe issue and a desperate attempt to sound informed. There is no need for strength in a low g tether and that is what carbon nanotubes are usefull for And no they dont need to tether to the ground . the tethers are free hanging and if u had not cut your physics classes u wld know that the ionosphere can provide a good enough return path. And it reflects very badly on the moderators that what was obviously a troll got moderated upto interesting!
A wonderfull article. Thanks to the poster for ferreting out such a gem. I was especially hit hard by the last para in which the author points out the fact that computers can now solve the same by brute force. But it gave me hope as I had always been worried that at the rate at which our knowledge base is growing a day would come that noone would be competent in his field i.e. it would take up all ones life to get competent in a field before one could actually do some new work. But as this example has pointed out in years to come we just wouldnt have to master the old basics, we could hand them over to a brute force machine and concentrate on coming up with something new. Incidentally the author mentions fractals but I was not able to get any reference to vibonacci and fractals. Can somebody help me out?
Hey ! I always thought that this forum was about ideas and not grammar. I mean I didn't even think people minded but I will try to be more shipshape in the future. About KDE vs Gnome what I basically meant was about having the same UI and not specifically KDE , it could be Gnome too. About the use of the word microkernel, I know that is technically a kernel that changes almost everything into a service and out of the kernel but don't you think thats the most appropiate model for a Handheld PC?
the reason for Microsofts success is that CE can maintain the same UI as Win 9x and that is a great help for the layman. Note I say can but u can also build your own UI
The reason for the succes for CE is that even though its a totally different os on the inside on the outside it looks like windows pretty much thus reducing the curve for non geek users. Now that business users are using Linux most people use KDE and I just want to know is there a KDE which can run on top of a linux microkernel so that a desktop and handheld both have the same look and feel. Also How about support. A lot of companies got ruined when Apple dropped the Newton and the many man months put into developing for the Newton went down the drain. Shame on Apple
This is a bit offtopic but are u aware that recently a lot of work has been done which has proved that net traffic is fractal in nature. Till now all modellings and simulation of networks while designinfg them was done using a Poisson distribution but these findings based on trace tapes may change all that.
What I would like to know if it is more efficient to do this in hardware or software compared to the cost(in terms of hardware chip area) Are there any benchmarks available? Maybe it would be better to use the chip area for things more commonly used
We had a course on graphics at the college and we worked upto ray tracing but there was nothing on bump mapping and the like. I always wanted to work on game graphics and had no idea how to do it and to think I am about to finish my junior year of a Bachelors in Comp Engg. Suggestions on anything else that should be taught in a CS course?
Hey the ultimate test for an arificial nose would be to test perfumes for acceptibility. Also maybe u cld send one to mars and tell us does it stink as much as earth.
At college we have a mix of students some living in the hostel and others who commute from homes in the city. As can be expected the day scholars dont make a point of attending every class . So we recently set up a mailing list at listbot the idea being the hostellers could post any important info on the list. Right now one month into the idea we are basically facing 2 problems. One their are people in the class who are not net freaks and may not check their mail everyday(I know that sounds horrible to me too but its a reality) and Two since its the same city people prefer picking up a phone and calling a fellow day scholar rather than log on and check their mail. At present we are thinking maybe we need to do something more than announcements to make the mailing list a success Any suggestions?
It seems people tend to think that if u r spending on defense u are flush with cash. No one spends on defense coz they want to they spend oz they need to. I am sure the money the US spends on nuclear subs can clean up all the inner cities and reverse the ghettoisation of the blacks but will the US stop spending on defense? I think I dont have to This when the continental US has never been attacked i the last 250 years while India on the other habd lost a war to China which resulted in the Chinese holding Aksai Chin a piece of Indian territory the size of the original 13 states I think spending on defense is a reality which we cannot escape from. I mean development without the capability to protect it is useless. To give an example Iraq was the most developed state in the Gulf with a public medical system matched by no other country in the world with the exception of maybe Cuba(and that is a communist country and by the very definition of communism the govt takes better care of the people than in a democracy.. They have to otherwise people will not give up the personal profit motive) But what happened coz they hadnt spent enough on defense The US bombed them back into the stone age DITTO for Serbia Once again very high on the UN Human Development Index but inadequate spending on defense and now they are bottom odf the list coz all their bridges factories power stations water supply sewage plants shopping malls have been reduced to rubble. Thus to spend money on development without spending on defense is useless. After all it only takes a $1000 bomb to blow up a $5 million factory
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The article mentions that Galileo wont be destroyed until it takes part in joint observations with Cassini at the end of the year.
;)
Two Questions
1> Is it wise to risk Cassini a craft which has not yet started on its main mission alongside a decrepit old craft like Galileo long past its lifetime. What if Galileo collides with Cassini or causes some interference or the like.
Obviously these craft were not degigned keeping in mind a joint mission and may have interfering control frequencies and like
2>On a lighter note if NASA can mix up feet and meters what if they mix them up and crash Cassini and send Galileo to Saturn
All of Nasa's Crafts crash anyway(remember Mars) so why not just say we are crashing it deliberately.
But then again a Photonics chip could cook it (light)ly and not burn it
Weel if photonics result in chips running cooler where will I do my cooking. At present I use my Pentium 3 and its as good as a microwave. I was looking forward to using the Penttiom 4 for outdoor barbecues
then people who are poor in India(as a percentage of population) So I think u better feed your former slaves first.
Sure India wants to go to Pluto And hang around a space station for decades but wouldnt people laugh at them if they attempted anything like that before they had even done something so boring,routine and easy as sending an orbuter to the moon Wake up and smell the coffee . Just because the US can do it doesnt mean they share the technology with other nations especially third world coloured non christian nations and if they want to do something about it they have no option but to reinvent the wheel
Btw I forgot to mention the proposed bill for the mission is 350 million half the cost of a Boing 747
I have just started using VB as it is reqd for a project at my company and for the life of me i can't figure out Visual Source Safe!
There are a lot of materials available and as the article states some of them have been tested to last upto 3 years in orbit and others with decades of lifetime are on the design board The shot about carbon nanotubes basically shows your ignorance aboutthe issue and a desperate attempt to sound informed. There is no need for strength in a low g tether and that is what carbon nanotubes are usefull for And no they dont need to tether to the ground . the tethers are free hanging and if u had not cut your physics classes u wld know that the ionosphere can provide a good enough return path. And it reflects very badly on the moderators that what was obviously a troll got moderated upto interesting!
A wonderfull article. Thanks to the poster for ferreting out such a gem.
I was especially hit hard by the last para in which the author points out the fact that computers can now solve the same by brute force.
But it gave me hope as I had always been worried that at the rate at which our knowledge base is growing a day would come that noone would be competent in his field i.e. it would take up all ones life to get competent in a field before one could actually do some new work.
But as this example has pointed out in years to come we just wouldnt have to master the old basics, we could hand them over to a brute force machine and concentrate on coming up with something new.
Incidentally the author mentions fractals but I was not able to get any reference to vibonacci and fractals. Can somebody help me out?
I recently trained at a HPC organization and what do u know they were running CE on a Palm V. Hozzat?
Hey ! I always thought that this forum was about ideas and not grammar. I mean I didn't even think people minded but I will try to be more shipshape in the future. About KDE vs Gnome what I basically meant was about having the same UI and not specifically KDE , it could be Gnome too. About the use of the word microkernel, I know that is technically a kernel that changes almost everything into a service and out of the kernel but don't you think thats the most appropiate model for a Handheld PC?
I AM talking about H/PCs . The Palm is a glorified organizer. And btw u can run CE on a Palm V
the reason for Microsofts success is that CE can maintain the same UI as Win 9x and that is a great help for the layman. Note I say can but u can also build your own UI
The reason for the succes for CE is that even though its a totally different os on the inside on the outside it looks like windows pretty much thus reducing the curve for non geek users. Now that business users are using Linux most people use KDE and I just want to know is there a KDE which can run on top of a linux microkernel so that a desktop and handheld both have the same look and feel. Also How about support. A lot of companies got ruined when Apple dropped the Newton and the many man months put into developing for the Newton went down the drain. Shame on Apple
First the judge breaks it up coz he liked the netscape interface and now intel uses its product to screw it. THERE IS JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD!!!!!
That was our course book but it uses pascal in the 2nd ed 3rd ed is better
This is a bit offtopic but are u aware that recently a lot of work has been done which has proved that net traffic is fractal in nature. Till now all modellings and simulation of networks while designinfg them was done using a Poisson distribution but these findings based on trace tapes may change all that.
What I would like to know if it is more efficient to do this in hardware or software compared to the cost(in terms of hardware chip area) Are there any benchmarks available? Maybe it would be better to use the chip area for things more commonly used
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We had a course on graphics at the college and we worked upto ray tracing but there was nothing on bump mapping and the like. I always wanted to work on game graphics and had no idea how to do it and to think I am about to finish my junior year of a Bachelors in Comp Engg. Suggestions on anything else that should be taught in a CS course?
Hey the ultimate test for an arificial nose would be to test perfumes for acceptibility. Also maybe u cld send one to mars and tell us does it stink as much as earth.
Well if it went for peer review it would probably not get published unless it furthered the cause of the reviewers in getting bigger grants
At college we have a mix of students some living in the hostel and others who commute from homes in the city. As can be expected the day scholars dont make a point of attending every class . So we recently set up a mailing list at listbot the idea being the hostellers could post any important info on the list. Right now one month into the idea we are basically facing 2 problems. One their are people in the class who are not net freaks and may not check their mail everyday(I know that sounds horrible to me too but its a reality) and Two since its the same city people prefer picking up a phone and calling a fellow day scholar rather than log on and check their mail. At present we are thinking maybe we need to do something more than announcements to make the mailing list a success Any suggestions?
It seems people tend to think that if u r spending on defense u are flush with cash. No one spends on defense coz they want to they spend oz they need to. I am sure the money the US spends on nuclear subs can clean up all the inner cities and reverse the ghettoisation of the blacks but will the US stop spending on defense? I think I dont have to This when the continental US has never been attacked i the last 250 years while India on the other habd lost a war to China which resulted in the Chinese holding Aksai Chin a piece of Indian territory the size of the original 13 states I think spending on defense is a reality which we cannot escape from. I mean development without the capability to protect it is useless. To give an example Iraq was the most developed state in the Gulf with a public medical system matched by no other country in the world with the exception of maybe Cuba(and that is a communist country and by the very definition of communism the govt takes better care of the people than in a democracy.. They have to otherwise people will not give up the personal profit motive) But what happened coz they hadnt spent enough on defense The US bombed them back into the stone age DITTO for Serbia Once again very high on the UN Human Development Index but inadequate spending on defense and now they are bottom odf the list coz all their bridges factories power stations water supply sewage plants shopping malls have been reduced to rubble. Thus to spend money on development without spending on defense is useless. After all it only takes a $1000 bomb to blow up a $5 million factory