You see, the Soyuz is not reusable llike the shuttlre, so it takes a long turn around time
I believe the Soyuz has a shorter time between launches because it doesn't need to go in for repairs, maintenance and hand-holding for six months after a mission. The main limit is production speeds of new capsules and launch vehicles.
Other than that, I stand corrected, but am still curious as to why the Russians suddenly would prioritize the ISS over fast tourism-provided bucks unless the supply of said bucks were to dry up for psychological reasons. After all, tourism to Bali dropped to non-existant level after the bombings there. And the ISS has no immediate need for more Soyuz capsules than the regularly scheduled replacement interval of the one permanently stationed there - future crew changes could most likely be fitted into that schedule, obviating the need to allocate additional vehicles and mission to the ISS. Supplies are normally ferried up with Progress, just like the one that went up this last Sunday.
Funny thing is, I won the game in a few hours, but I remember it being weeks when I was a kid.
I've done the same thing with a few old C=64 games like Arkanoid (when I was a kid, that purple ball was impossible to get past, now I just whizzed by) and Paradroid. Since I played them now on the same compuer as I did then, the faster hardware theory doesn't hold. Any other thoughts on a reason? Are we just so wired for life in the fast lane that the old games aren't challenging anymore?
I love the comment on the bottom of his OtherUnix page:
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It's an IMEI number. And they only check for registered and blocked numbers. I don't know of any carriers that automatically register and lock the numbers (with one exception; subsidized pre-paid bundles with card and phone, those are locked to a specific carrier (but not to a specific card) for a period of time) - you'll have to send the number in and then block it yourself if the phone gets lost or stolen.
meaning the robot spends 50% of its time tied to the wall
This is marketing. Mitsubishi obviously wants to sell everyone two robots, so the other one can watch over you while the first one recharges. This is known as RAID (Robotic Array of Invaluable Droids).
I painted the official first mission patch painted on the door of a filing cabinet on my desk back in my parent's house, just after that mission, full of space exploration anticipation.
These news saddens me immensely, not just because of the loss of life, but the impact this may have on an already faltering space program. I was too young to remember anything from the Apollo missions and I really, really want to see a human walking on the surface of Mars before I die. )-;
The UUCP password for all customers on a certain large american ISP was for a very long time 'notobvious'. I still get a chuckle out of imagining how it came to be:
Technician: What should we set the password to, boss?
Boss: I don't care, just pick one that's not obvious.
Technician: Right, boss.
To be fair, it was just the password to login to the modem server, every customer had an additional real password to actually access the UUCP box behind it.
Who cares? Oh, the SUV owners care, but no one cares about them since they obviously don't care about anobody else. The important people - George Bush's drinking buddies - want the oil price to go up so their inherited wells in Texas will start to show a healthy profit again so they can buy more congressmen to make their oil wells even more profitable...
IIRC, German keyboards have the Z and Y keys close together but in true Slashdot tradition, I can't be bothered to check this (purported) fact right now. Nyah.
I never mentioned static. There is, however, an EM lobe going out the back of the monitor. Do the same test but just turn one of the monitors on and back off. See the other monitor distort. Side-by-side doesn't really work since they are fairly well shielded there too. And, if the monitors were shielded all the way around, degaussing would not affect the other monitor, regardless of their relative position.
Exactly. Mafia bosses can (most of the time anyway, there are bound to be psychopaths there too, but they usually don't dance around a stage screaming "Developers!") be relied upon to adhere to the Mafia's set of standards, ethics and rules. They have been taught since childhood to respect their elders, care for their family and provide for their 'extended family'. They are, in their own cultural context, very predictable. This makes them tempting to do business with.
On the other hand, Microsoft VPs are a pack of hungry, rabid dogs on meth that would not only bite the hand that feeds them but continue up the arm until they choke.
Herein lies also a fundamental difference between IBM twenty years ago and Microsoft today; even though many like to draw this parallell (mostly to take comfort in the fact that a near 100% market penetration can be overturned in very little time) they are in fact not alike. IBM also had this set of standards, an internal culture that predicated their every move. This was also what prevented them from keeping their grip on the PC industry. Microsoft has no such barriers. They will not refrain from anything to further their own agenda. The hope lies in the fragmentation of these rabid dogs - they have no loyalty to each other and this may distract them from uniting against common enemies outside the pack, especially sneaky, difficult-to-grasp-and-counter enemies - hint, hint, nudge, nudge, tux, tux.
The local mobster-boss, of course. The Mafia actually has a sense of honour and ethics, it's just not perfectly aligned with everyone else's. Bill Gates does not have that sense, at all.
OTOH, his sense of smell more than compensate for this deficiency - he can smell a dollar bill from a distance of 12 miles, even if the bill is downwind, underwater and he has a severe cold. This has been confirmed in secret tests in the Microsoft labs in Redmond.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of X-boxes trying to crack the key... *ducks and runs*
But wouldn't it be easier to just bribe one of the software developers? You know that if these guys actually by a freak accident were able to crack the key, Microsoft would just change it.
Did you ever put "You talk of times of peace for all, and then prepare for war." from a Midnight Oil song into any of your code? And if you did, would you admit it?;-)
The picture tube produces significant EM fields backwards. This is easy to test. Set up two monitors pointed away from each other and turn them on. Degauss one while watching the other one.
TCO-99 spec monitors doesn't produce any static electricity, at least not in front of or on the front side of the monitor. The rear is another matter... Ever been seated opposing someone else in an office? His or her monitor emissions are what you should worry about, not what your monitor does (that's the other person's problem).
TCO-99 is a very restrictive specification that not only deals with radiation and emission levels, it also specifies ergonomics. It is for instance considered harmful to have a black border around the viewing area - this has almost killed off sales of black or dark gray monitors. They are almost always TCO-95 spec, even if they meet all the other TCO-99 requirements.
TCO is The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (basically, a white-collar trade union) that thinks about workplace ergonomics and how to keep their members alive and healthy.
Cycle? We didn't have no stinken' cycles! We had to walk - by hand, carrying the bits in our mouths. And if there was even a little bit of slobber on the bits, we would get a good thrashing, that's for sure. Aye, you young whippersnappers had it too easy, lemme tell ya. Once every three weeks we'd get a lump of cold poison to chew on. Getting up at 2 am my foot, we could've got up at 2 am on our days off, except we didn't have any friggin' days off! We worked all days from sunrise to sunrise and God help us if we ever let one of the Suns go down! Those were the good old days - 28 hour workdays, paying the manager tuppence a week for the privilege of working and when we got home our father would kill us, dance on our graves and sing hallelujah!
When you try to tell that to the young poeple of today, they won't believe you!
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I wish Microsoft would die a bitter death...
I believe the Soyuz has a shorter time between launches because it doesn't need to go in for repairs, maintenance and hand-holding for six months after a mission. The main limit is production speeds of new capsules and launch vehicles.
Other than that, I stand corrected, but am still curious as to why the Russians suddenly would prioritize the ISS over fast tourism-provided bucks unless the supply of said bucks were to dry up for psychological reasons. After all, tourism to Bali dropped to non-existant level after the bombings there. And the ISS has no immediate need for more Soyuz capsules than the regularly scheduled replacement interval of the one permanently stationed there - future crew changes could most likely be fitted into that schedule, obviating the need to allocate additional vehicles and mission to the ISS. Supplies are normally ferried up with Progress, just like the one that went up this last Sunday.
Suspending Russia's space tourism program is a psychological move, not a technical one.
I've done the same thing with a few old C=64 games like Arkanoid (when I was a kid, that purple ball was impossible to get past, now I just whizzed by) and Paradroid. Since I played them now on the same compuer as I did then, the faster hardware theory doesn't hold. Any other thoughts on a reason? Are we just so wired for life in the fast lane that the old games aren't challenging anymore?
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It's an IMEI number. And they only check for registered and blocked numbers. I don't know of any carriers that automatically register and lock the numbers (with one exception; subsidized pre-paid bundles with card and phone, those are locked to a specific carrier (but not to a specific card) for a period of time) - you'll have to send the number in and then block it yourself if the phone gets lost or stolen.
I especially like the 'reusable crew' part. These disposable ones are no fun at all... )-;
Could you hack it to run Windows on it?
This is marketing. Mitsubishi obviously wants to sell everyone two robots, so the other one can watch over you while the first one recharges. This is known as RAID (Robotic Array of Invaluable Droids).
Great, now you made me cry again... )-;
These news saddens me immensely, not just because of the loss of life, but the impact this may have on an already faltering space program. I was too young to remember anything from the Apollo missions and I really, really want to see a human walking on the surface of Mars before I die. )-;
Technician: What should we set the password to, boss?
Boss: I don't care, just pick one that's not obvious.
Technician: Right, boss.
To be fair, it was just the password to login to the modem server, every customer had an additional real password to actually access the UUCP box behind it.
Who cares? Oh, the SUV owners care, but no one cares about them since they obviously don't care about anobody else. The important people - George Bush's drinking buddies - want the oil price to go up so their inherited wells in Texas will start to show a healthy profit again so they can buy more congressmen to make their oil wells even more profitable...
I don't live next door to Tom Cruise, you insensitive clod!
IIRC, German keyboards have the Z and Y keys close together but in true Slashdot tradition, I can't be bothered to check this (purported) fact right now. Nyah.
I never mentioned static. There is, however, an EM lobe going out the back of the monitor. Do the same test but just turn one of the monitors on and back off. See the other monitor distort. Side-by-side doesn't really work since they are fairly well shielded there too. And, if the monitors were shielded all the way around, degaussing would not affect the other monitor, regardless of their relative position.
2) You always have to make sure you can squash the VPs around you.
3) The VPs around you have to fear you.
4) You mess up 3) see 1).
On the other hand, Microsoft VPs are a pack of hungry, rabid dogs on meth that would not only bite the hand that feeds them but continue up the arm until they choke.
Herein lies also a fundamental difference between IBM twenty years ago and Microsoft today; even though many like to draw this parallell (mostly to take comfort in the fact that a near 100% market penetration can be overturned in very little time) they are in fact not alike. IBM also had this set of standards, an internal culture that predicated their every move. This was also what prevented them from keeping their grip on the PC industry. Microsoft has no such barriers. They will not refrain from anything to further their own agenda. The hope lies in the fragmentation of these rabid dogs - they have no loyalty to each other and this may distract them from uniting against common enemies outside the pack, especially sneaky, difficult-to-grasp-and-counter enemies - hint, hint, nudge, nudge, tux, tux.
I can see the pr0n industry wanting to patent that one... :-D
OTOH, his sense of smell more than compensate for this deficiency - he can smell a dollar bill from a distance of 12 miles, even if the bill is downwind, underwater and he has a severe cold. This has been confirmed in secret tests in the Microsoft labs in Redmond.
But wouldn't it be easier to just bribe one of the software developers? You know that if these guys actually by a freak accident were able to crack the key, Microsoft would just change it.
Did you ever put "You talk of times of peace for all, and then prepare for war." from a Midnight Oil song into any of your code? And if you did, would you admit it? ;-)
The picture tube produces significant EM fields backwards. This is easy to test. Set up two monitors pointed away from each other and turn them on. Degauss one while watching the other one.
TCO-99 is a very restrictive specification that not only deals with radiation and emission levels, it also specifies ergonomics. It is for instance considered harmful to have a black border around the viewing area - this has almost killed off sales of black or dark gray monitors. They are almost always TCO-95 spec, even if they meet all the other TCO-99 requirements.
TCO is The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (basically, a white-collar trade union) that thinks about workplace ergonomics and how to keep their members alive and healthy.
When you try to tell that to the young poeple of today, they won't believe you!