The solar array with the metal shavings in its rotary joint (starboard side) is not the solar array that they are going to attempt to fix tomorrow (port side). The port side solar array rotary joint (SARJ) is functioning properly, but cannot be rotated because the damaged solar array is not fully extended, and doesn't have the proper rigidity for movement.
I have a machine with the Automatic Updates service enabled, but Automatic Updates turned off in Control Panel. I checked the version numbers of the affected files from TFA and they are still very old, 2005 era. I have had Automatic Updates turned off for a long time though. So my guess is that a newer version of Windows Update does this stealth updating.
The bandwidth requirements for VoIP aren't that bad, it is typical 5-50Kbps per call. You could have 5 people talking on these phones and still not use up the bandwidth of someone downloading the latest 2.5MB WMV file from their friends in an email.
The science that is going on is the building and maintaining of the station itself, which will provide tremendously valuable knowledge and skills for future spacecraft builders.
I think they just do the other "science" stuff (like microgravity research) so it looks to the layperson that they are doing something useful, and so that they can get the funding easier.
Shortly after we all went from AT to ATX I suddenly ended up with quite a few AT cases that could not be recycled by having a newer motherboard installed into them, and so they had to be tossed out. But the benefits of moving from AT to ATX made this worthwhile. I don't see similar benefits with moving from ATX to BTX. It just doesn't seem that much better. Intel should be able to solve their cooling problems with the existing ATX specification.
Call me crazy, but I think the idea of a few autonomous space trash trucks cruising around up there and picking up errant junk seems like the way to go, once technology has advanced sufficiently to permit it.
Having a "space truck" cruising around picking up junk would not be feasible. All this junk is in different orbits, and it would take massive amounts of fuel for the space truck to change orbit to capture the next piece of junk.
Blasting it with a laser beam isn't a good idea either, it's better to have one easily-trackable solid piece of junk than thousands of little pieces in a cloud.
I just hope that the various manufacturers can standardize their cartridges so they become interchangable from one model laptop to the other !!! THIS would be a feature I'd pay for.
Also, there is no way they could have gone to the space station. The Columbia is the heaviest of the shuttles and they used the old style heavy main tank for liftoff. They can't get to the station's orbit with that configuration.
I also believe that the Columbia is the only shuttle that wasn't retrofitted with the capability to dock with the ISS, so even if they could get there, they would have to do a very risky maneuver to get from the shuttle to the ISS.
The fact that Columbia could not have reached the station has NOTHING to do with how heavy it is. Columbia was in a 39 degree orbit, the station is in a 49 degree orbit, to change your orbit by that amount requires MASSIVE amounts of fuel, something you just don't have handy once you're already up there. The only way Columbia could reach the station is if it was decided BEFORE LAUNCH to go there, and then it would take off from the launch pad in the proper direction.
nhl.com, a site that I visit frequently, started running those really annoying flash popups for Speedstick deodorant, a product that I used to buy regularly. They disrupted my surfing experience enough for me to go out of my way to buy their competitor's product.
The space shuttles have an on-orbit limit of about 2 weeks. There is talk of keeping them up there for a month at a time, but beyond that it gets expensive due to the shuttle modifications that would be required. Also the current structure of the space station only permits one shuttle to be docked a time.
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I think that the revenue from the tourists is a good thing. It helps keep the Russian space program going, which will be the only way to get to/from the station for 5+ years after 2010.
The solar array with the metal shavings in its rotary joint (starboard side) is not the solar array that they are going to attempt to fix tomorrow (port side). The port side solar array rotary joint (SARJ) is functioning properly, but cannot be rotated because the damaged solar array is not fully extended, and doesn't have the proper rigidity for movement.
I have a machine with the Automatic Updates service enabled, but Automatic Updates turned off in Control Panel. I checked the version numbers of the affected files from TFA and they are still very old, 2005 era. I have had Automatic Updates turned off for a long time though. So my guess is that a newer version of Windows Update does this stealth updating.
...but I'm tired of loading page after page of advertisements just to find out... Use the Print button near the top to see the story on one page without ads.http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableAr
The bandwidth requirements for VoIP aren't that bad, it is typical 5-50Kbps per call. You could have 5 people talking on these phones and still not use up the bandwidth of someone downloading the latest 2.5MB WMV file from their friends in an email.
The science that is going on is the building and maintaining of the station itself, which will provide tremendously valuable knowledge and skills for future spacecraft builders.
I think they just do the other "science" stuff (like microgravity research) so it looks to the layperson that they are doing something useful, and so that they can get the funding easier.
Shortly after we all went from AT to ATX I suddenly ended up with quite a few AT cases that could not be recycled by having a newer motherboard installed into them, and so they had to be tossed out. But the benefits of moving from AT to ATX made this worthwhile. I don't see similar benefits with moving from ATX to BTX. It just doesn't seem that much better. Intel should be able to solve their cooling problems with the existing ATX specification.
Having a "space truck" cruising around picking up junk would not be feasible. All this junk is in different orbits, and it would take massive amounts of fuel for the space truck to change orbit to capture the next piece of junk.
Blasting it with a laser beam isn't a good idea either, it's better to have one easily-trackable solid piece of junk than thousands of little pieces in a cloud.
Hasn't almost every notebook that has come out in the last 10 years been touted as a "desktop replacement" ??
I just hope that the various manufacturers can standardize their cartridges so they become interchangable from one model laptop to the other !!! THIS would be a feature I'd pay for.
The fact that Columbia could not have reached the station has NOTHING to do with how heavy it is. Columbia was in a 39 degree orbit, the station is in a 49 degree orbit, to change your orbit by that amount requires MASSIVE amounts of fuel, something you just don't have handy once you're already up there. The only way Columbia could reach the station is if it was decided BEFORE LAUNCH to go there, and then it would take off from the launch pad in the proper direction.
Bill C-48, titled "An Act to Amend the Copyright Act", which passed on June 18, 2002, says that copying musical works for private use is legal.
The section of the act that covers this topic is here.
nhl.com, a site that I visit frequently, started running those really annoying flash popups for Speedstick deodorant, a product that I used to buy regularly. They disrupted my surfing experience enough for me to go out of my way to buy their competitor's product.
The space shuttles have an on-orbit limit of about 2 weeks. There is talk of keeping them up there for a month at a time, but beyond that it gets expensive due to the shuttle modifications that would be required. Also the current structure of the space station only permits one shuttle to be docked a time.
Ballard is located across the bridge in Burnaby, B.C. They moved from North Vancouver a few years ago.
http://www.ballard.com/facilities.asp