Did they find any?! Did the article writer not know, or was it not considered interesting enough to print.:)
Where have you been? Other outcroppings had geologic features that showed that yes, water had been on the planet for some time.
On a side note, I don't understand the design of these rovers..... Why not have 5 or 6 treads around the center and have the middle gyroscopiclly right itself?
The CG in relation to the support polygon defined by the wheels, doesn't appear to be too different than say, a passenger car. That's not horribly flippable. But I'm glad that in the two seconds it took you to spew your post that you were able to design a reliable, lightweight, and efficient transport device that didn't even need testing. My only question is, why don't you get a job at JPL and fire all those bad engineers?
Those with moderating points, what is "+4 Interesting" about his post? It's ignorant.
True, true. Blender provides a whopping surprise in the quality of the models, and the tools to make those models. The new rendering engine is nice, and an external renderer/ray tracer has been integrated. I've also combined 3D models with video streams for some really fun clips; the video editor isn't bad at all.
In my spare time, I've been utilizing Blender's Python bindings to write a mesh exporter, and do other things.
If one has an interest in 3D modeling and animation, Blender should be looked at.
The current vehicle customizer is a direct descendent of the *nephew* of the old Jesse James. But it makes for mo bettah TeeVee for him to be a direct, criminal bad boy. Ooh, The Drama! (/me clasps hands together)
I just finished Cryptonomicon the other day and if I ever have to read one more page about Randy's prostate again.... Less specifically, the 1100 pages of Crypto were about 500 more than was justified for the actual plot. Great story, otherwise.
Quicksilver, and a signed copy at that, will be started soon. I really hope it's better than what's being described here.
swordboy is the only post I've seen that has injected the current state of the art into this discussion.
There are still in-line signal modifiers that return back adjusted voltages from various engine sensors so that the stock ECU dumps more fuel/etc at different times that it otherwise would.
However, the current state is to disassemble the actual program running in the ECU. This way, you not only get the tables of data (boost control if turbocharged, fuel/air ratios at rpm/loads, etc) but the logic that shows how it all goes together. Tuners using this technique then rewrite bits of the code or modify table data to change performance. It's really cool.
Check out COBB Tuning's AccessECU; they specialize in Subaru WRX/STi (http://www.cobbtuning.com/) and give a good example of what's possible.
Other applications would include increasing low-RPM torque for say, towing things.
And other ECU modifications really do have the enable/disable/selector function mapped to headlight, defroster or CC switches. (Turn defroster on, mash gas to enable...)
I think it would have been excellent science to have Beagle operational at the same time. Imagine, three rovers investigating Mars at the same time, given "similar" environmental conditions (either a lack of or similar-intensity dust storm conditions).
We should be glad the problematic file stores on Spirit and Opportunity were easy to correct.
BTW, where are the software companies in all this? Shouldn't groups like Real, Apple, and even ATI [...] be worried too?
What about authors of, and collaborators on, other open source software? This is not a rhetorical question, as with the PATRIOT act and other actions going on with the current US Administration, such ridiculous leaps are suddenly and frighteningly possible.
The GIMP is a tool to draw diagrams of nuclear payloads, the various checkbook ledger programs are a way to handle laundered funds from all those disliked pesky nations, Open Office provides "key terrorist communication tools", and OpenGIS is a system of determining the best place the drop Tha Big One.
Between the War on Terrorism and the RIAA's and key hardware companies (HP?) push for a closed platform to stem piracy, software developers are staring into a foggy crystal ball. When compilers are outlawed, only outlaws will compile.
What we need is a mutually assured destruction. Nothing complicated, just something that would benefit us in many ways. Imagine this sample of bureaucracy:
SCO, do you still have MP3s on your internal network? And RIAA, aren't you using Linux servers to track copyright infringers?
I can't count the number of problems/designs that have been solved in my sleep. From compiler internal data structures to just stupid bugs to family holiday schedules, there's been a lot of CPU time in my REM.
Considering we have publicly accessible aerial imagery down to 1m resolution (and you know the US military has sub-meter capability for their purposes) in selected areas, and 2m and 10m over the rest of the world, I'd say there is far more detail on Earth than Mars.
Further, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission/SRTM mapped some 85% of the Earth's surface. Much of the data that mission generated is actually redundant, with some areas being scanned 3 times. This makes that data even more reliable, although it's fairly coarse at only 1arcsec resolution.
And IIRC, the Russian EGNOS (?) data covers Europe-to-Asia with decent resolution.
Anyway, I'm not busting the submitter's chops for this comment. I think the Mars mapping is fantastic, and I wish those of us interested in amateur digital cartography (now *there's* a party conversation topic) had equally easy access to Mars data.
Video games should make more use of all the terrain data governments generate.
And then, when they do tell us, it's in NFL units. The rest of the developed world has metric, US uses our haphazzard system, *except* when it comes to length.
Then the media converts it to NFL units.
"The U.S.S. Whozitz has a deck length of 1066 feet -- that's more than three football fields long!"
A sample asteroid "threat" described in our press: "The asteroid with a death wish, QQ102, will whiz by the Earth, coming within 100,000 miles: that's closer than the moon." Dr. Floatakeg, an observatory director and amateur zymurgist, emphasizes the urgency, saying, "100,000 miles may sound large, but that's a mere 1.76E6 football fields."
I had a no-code tech license until 2001. Back in 1990 or 1991 is when they first allowed this license. I've let it expire. Oh, I did learn the 5wpm but got the nocode license instead.
But anyway, as friendly and interesting as the "old farts" are in amateur radio, many have war experience, and this hobby is their outlet for the training they received. That's fine. But the ideology behind licensing is the problem, that only by learning code (and up to 16 or 20 wpm for advanced licenses) can one fully appreciate amateur radio. This has reduced amateur radio's numbers, even though licensees have discussed this ad nauseum. "How do we build up the ranks?" "How do we make it interesting?" Simply put, the code requirements, a severe blockade to the other amateur radio technologies entirely unrelated to dit-dah-dit (like satellite, amateur TV, etc) is what's gating the wider acceptance to amateur radio. The "old farts" have not gotten it yet.
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Where have you been? Other outcroppings had geologic features that showed that yes, water had been on the planet for some time.
On a side note, I don't understand the design of these rovers. .... Why not have 5 or 6 treads around the center and have the middle gyroscopiclly right itself?
The CG in relation to the support polygon defined by the wheels, doesn't appear to be too different than say, a passenger car. That's not horribly flippable. But I'm glad that in the two seconds it took you to spew your post that you were able to design a reliable, lightweight, and efficient transport device that didn't even need testing. My only question is, why don't you get a job at JPL and fire all those bad engineers?
Those with moderating points, what is "+4 Interesting" about his post? It's ignorant.
True, true. Blender provides a whopping surprise in the quality of the models, and the tools to make those models. The new rendering engine is nice, and an external renderer/ray tracer has been integrated. I've also combined 3D models with video streams for some really fun clips; the video editor isn't bad at all.
In my spare time, I've been utilizing Blender's Python bindings to write a mesh exporter, and do other things.
If one has an interest in 3D modeling and animation, Blender should be looked at.
Imagine a flash-mob of mobile traffic cones.
And then, imagine a beowolf...
In Soviet Russia, traffic cones MOVE YOU!
Aiiieeeeee!! Hot grits and Natalie Portman! I'm having a slashdot flashback.
They mislead with "direct".
The current vehicle customizer is a direct descendent of the *nephew* of the old Jesse James. But it makes for mo bettah TeeVee for him to be a direct, criminal bad boy. Ooh, The Drama! (/me clasps hands together)
Sample prayer requests at the cyberchurch:
"I have a prayer request for my uncle, Hugh Jass. My Hugh Jass has internal bleeding, and is being treated now."
nmake doesn't work with this download because nmake isn't included with this download.
The only binaries in this download are the C++ compiler (cl.exe driver and c1 & c2 bits), and the linker (link.exe).
The libraries included are the kernel32 (system calls, basically), libc variants, and two others.
This is very much a minimal system for development. That said, I'm surprised it still takes 30MB of disk (20+ are just for the libs).
This isn't boding well for him.
I loved Snowcrash.
I just finished Cryptonomicon the other day and if I ever have to read one more page about Randy's prostate again.... Less specifically, the 1100 pages of Crypto were about 500 more than was justified for the actual plot. Great story, otherwise.
Quicksilver, and a signed copy at that, will be started soon. I really hope it's better than what's being described here.
Do you mean the eJesus?
Ha ha! Good tie in.
But in six months someone may read it and say "WTF?!????777 Mod 5+Funny? For that dadaistic quip?"
Ditto
I'd be ashamed to work for Real. Wait, no I wouldn't -- I would have quit.
swordboy is the only post I've seen that has injected the current state of the art into this discussion.
There are still in-line signal modifiers that return back adjusted voltages from various engine sensors so that the stock ECU dumps more fuel/etc at different times that it otherwise would.
However, the current state is to disassemble the actual program running in the ECU. This way, you not only get the tables of data (boost control if turbocharged, fuel/air ratios at rpm/loads, etc) but the logic that shows how it all goes together. Tuners using this technique then rewrite bits of the code or modify table data to change performance. It's really cool.
Check out COBB Tuning's AccessECU; they specialize in Subaru WRX/STi (http://www.cobbtuning.com/) and give a good example of what's possible.
Other applications would include increasing low-RPM torque for say, towing things.
And other ECU modifications really do have the enable/disable/selector function mapped to headlight, defroster or CC switches. (Turn defroster on, mash gas to enable...)
Next up, EULA's on new cars!
I think it would have been excellent science to have Beagle operational at the same time. Imagine, three rovers investigating Mars at the same time, given "similar" environmental conditions (either a lack of or similar-intensity dust storm conditions).
We should be glad the problematic file stores on Spirit and Opportunity were easy to correct.
What about authors of, and collaborators on, other open source software? This is not a rhetorical question, as with the PATRIOT act and other actions going on with the current US Administration, such ridiculous leaps are suddenly and frighteningly possible.
The GIMP is a tool to draw diagrams of nuclear payloads, the various checkbook ledger programs are a way to handle laundered funds from all those disliked pesky nations, Open Office provides "key terrorist communication tools", and OpenGIS is a system of determining the best place the drop Tha Big One.
Between the War on Terrorism and the RIAA's and key hardware companies (HP?) push for a closed platform to stem piracy, software developers are staring into a foggy crystal ball. When compilers are outlawed, only outlaws will compile.
What we need is a mutually assured destruction. Nothing complicated, just something that would benefit us in many ways. Imagine this sample of bureaucracy:
SCO, do you still have MP3s on your internal network? And RIAA, aren't you using Linux servers to track copyright infringers?
I agree with parent and grandparent.
I can't count the number of problems/designs that have been solved in my sleep. From compiler internal data structures to just stupid bugs to family holiday schedules, there's been a lot of CPU time in my REM.
It's pretty cool how our brains/minds work.
Well, let's think about this.
Considering we have publicly accessible aerial imagery down to 1m resolution (and you know the US military has sub-meter capability for their purposes) in selected areas, and 2m and 10m over the rest of the world, I'd say there is far more detail on Earth than Mars.
Further, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission/SRTM mapped some 85% of the Earth's surface. Much of the data that mission generated is actually redundant, with some areas being scanned 3 times. This makes that data even more reliable, although it's fairly coarse at only 1arcsec resolution.
And IIRC, the Russian EGNOS (?) data covers Europe-to-Asia with decent resolution.
Anyway, I'm not busting the submitter's chops for this comment. I think the Mars mapping is fantastic, and I wish those of us interested in amateur digital cartography (now *there's* a party conversation topic) had equally easy access to Mars data.
Video games should make more use of all the terrain data governments generate.
Either small fonts, or a summary thus:
We find the following source code lines infringe:
L.1 - L.10,000,000
Thanks for sharing these pictures. I'll have to try plucking two images from a panning video clip and try this out.
That porno image really will make you go blind.
I agree. That was a pure off-the-cuff hack.
But all these recent Mars missions and cometary excursions are great nerd stuff.
"Airspeed velocity"? :confused:
:rolleyes: :monkey: :D
Isn't that redundantly redundant?
Anybody have an mpeg of this episode or .torrent file for such?
If he's the cure, then the cancer must be good acting.
And then, when they do tell us, it's in NFL units. The rest of the developed world has metric, US uses our haphazzard system, *except* when it comes to length.
Then the media converts it to NFL units.
"The U.S.S. Whozitz has a deck length of 1066 feet -- that's more than three football fields long!"
A sample asteroid "threat" described in our press: "The asteroid with a death wish, QQ102, will whiz by the Earth, coming within 100,000 miles: that's closer than the moon." Dr. Floatakeg, an observatory director and amateur zymurgist, emphasizes the urgency, saying, "100,000 miles may sound large, but that's a mere 1.76E6 football fields."
But anyway, as friendly and interesting as the "old farts" are in amateur radio, many have war experience, and this hobby is their outlet for the training they received. That's fine. But the ideology behind licensing is the problem, that only by learning code (and up to 16 or 20 wpm for advanced licenses) can one fully appreciate amateur radio. This has reduced amateur radio's numbers, even though licensees have discussed this ad nauseum. "How do we build up the ranks?" "How do we make it interesting?" Simply put, the code requirements, a severe blockade to the other amateur radio technologies entirely unrelated to dit-dah-dit (like satellite, amateur TV, etc) is what's gating the wider acceptance to amateur radio. The "old farts" have not gotten it yet.
... only means there's more time for The Next Worm to get in.