You forgot to mention thermal issues. LEO provides significant, variable thermal issues due to station attitude and orbit. A moon based station would have a very predictable thermal cycle and thus be a lot easier to design.
Actually, you are wrong about the outsourcing of DoD weapons. I work for one of the top two DoD contractors in the defense contract division of my company. We are the lead contractor on several DoD contracts and the only things in our systems that are not American made are the COTS microchips and maybe some nuts and bolts. All software and hardware design (above the microchip level) is done in the US by US citizens, typically with some sort of classified security clearance.
I never said "poor Boeing." I said they had trouble competing internationally. That article makes it clear that Boeing was doing the same things as Airbus until the FCA was passed in the USA. I was in no means was trying to defend Boeing. I am just presenting the facts that I know about their commercial airliner business.
The issue with the tankers is not so clear cut corruption as Airbus' bribing government employees is. If the US government had been willing to sanction that deal, it would have been considered a very bad business move for the Dept. of Defense...but corruption? Please. This is a capitalist society. Any company can sell/lease whatever it wants at whatever price. The government does not have to buy it. If they needed tankers that bad and could not get the deal they wanted from Boeing, I am sure Lockheed could have come up with some sort of competitive offer.
PS: I am biased as I work for Boeing (but certainly don't speak for them). And I work in Integrated Defense Systems/NASA Systems, not the Commercial Airplanes.
I think most people following the airplane builders knew the Sonic Cruiser was dead before birth; but I still don't see how this plane is going to solve Boeing's sales problems.
The main problem Boeing is facing is that Airbus has the most efficient long haul carrier as of right now. The 7E7 is expected to be ~20% more efficient than Airbus' long hauler.
Several people here have asked a couple of questions that I think need to be addressed:
1) How is this going to solve Boeings sales problems?
Well, this is not expected to be a cure all for Boeing. Being 20% more efficient than Airbus' best long haul carrier will go a long way to making inroads for sales. Other things being done by Boeing include redesigning the 737 (a short range carrier) with winglets and new composite materials to reduce weight and creating new version of the 747 (the 400ER). The first 400ER was just delivered to Korean Airlines this week.
2) How can Boeing design a plane in such a short time?
I saw someone answer that large reuse of old designs, such as using the same general airframe and what not, made it possible. The problem is that the 7E7 does not use the standard 7x7 airframe. The standard is usually called a double bubble and if you look at any previous 7x7 you will see what I mean. The 7E7 will have a single bubble airframe. This is a new design for Boeing.
How will they develop the plane so fast? Two ways: First a large portion of the electronics and other interior assemblies are being contracted out to other companies. Boeing will act as a large system integrator. Second, Boeing learned how to overcome the prototype manufacturing problems that crop up when moving from paper to the "real thing" with the 777. Using Catia and some other CAD programs Boeing can assemble a plane on computer before assembling it in real life thus allowing them to fix all the pieces that do not properly fit before manufacture. This used to be a major factor in the time to market for planes.
3) How internet ready will it be?
Probably as internet ready as some of Boeings other planes.
Let me first say I am biased. My mother works at the coporate headquarters in for SBC in San Antonio, TX.
Now, from what she tells me, SBC is forced by current regulations to sell access to their lines to competing phone companies for less than it costs SBC to up keep those lines. I saw another poster say that SBC does not own those lines. Yes, they do and they are the only ones who do up keep on them. No other non-Bell company has the infrastructure or know how for doing line upkeep. So if SBC goes under you will suddenly find that there is no service without SBC. These so called other phone companies are just carriers with no real phone line assets. Since by federal regulation (what is often called deregulation) they don't pay SBC the cost of up keeping lines that they use, it comes out of the SBC shareholders pockets...even when SBC does not carry the majority of the customers in any given area.
Keep that in mind next time an SBC guy comes out to fix your line even though you use a different carrier. You are essentially getting a free service (or ripped off if you carrier is charging you a service fee for it).
Then they should not be called homework then. It has been driven into the mind of the average American child that homework is where you learn solve the problems and tests are where you apply that learned knowledge. Therefore these assignments should be called take home tests if they are not to collaborate with anyone or anything on them. They give take home tests at Rice U. all the time and rarely does anyone violate the honor code on the tests.
A close relative of mine works at the SBC corporate headquarters where they just changed their policy up a bit. In the past they were not allowed to surf the web at all or do personal email stuff. Now they can.
The article did not mention one company that was considering doing what it was suggesting...makes me think it was just an add for the firewall and filter makers. At least I was able to come up with one example contrary to their "news".
3 days until the KDE 2.0 Feature Freeze 1 weeks until KDE 1.92 will be released 4 weeks until KDE 2.0 RC 1 will be released 7 weeks until KDE 2.0 will be released
Wow, less than 7 weeks until the expected roll out.
I am not to versed in genetics or genetic algorithms, but it does seem reasonable to me that we might be able to test the results of altering genes using genetic algorithms.
...the power grid is going to fail and the year 2000 bug is going to destroy civilization as we know it...oh wait the year 2000 bug didn't happen... This is just another example of media sensationalism that every media outlet thrives on (including/.) If people start experiencing major (or even just minor) brown outs, I guarantee that more power plants will be built to compensate.
Redhat 6.1 autodetected my Voodoo Banshee. I didn't have to do a thing to configure it. My best friend has a Voodoo 3 (which uses the same drivers as the Banshee) which was also autodetected. About 2 weeks ago I replaced my banshee with a TNT2 Ultra and when I booted my box up it said that it detected a new video card and proceded to configure my TNT2 to the same settings I had for my Banshee. It was pretty smooth if you ask me.
Unfortunately Oliver Wendell Holmes and the court he sat on ruled that it is constitutional for congress to censor people if what they are saying presents "a clear and present danger..." (another Tom Clancy novel and a quote from OW Holmes) to the rest citizens of the nation. Qoute: In Schenck v. United States,78 in which defendants had been convicted of seeking to disrupt recruitment of military personnel by dissemination of certain leaflets, Justice Holmes formulated the ''clear and present danger'' test which has ever since been the starting point of argument. ''The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. End Quote.
According to FAQ #16 on 3dfx's FAQ page Linux will be supported along with BeOS... On the other hand, I really don't care because I will not buy one of these cards anyhow. Who integrates a DVD decoder on their card and doesn't put a TV out on the board because "very, very few end-users want to play PC games on a TV." Ok, fine. Gamers don't want to play the games on TV but what about those of us who would like to watch DVD's on our TV? Come on 3dfx, use your brain...
The book does cover boolean algebra, and I think it does a fairly good job of it. Of course, I took a Discrete Mathematics course before I took the class I used Katz's book for and thus knew Boolean algebra before hand.
Let me first start this off with stating my personal bias so that you can take this with how much ever salt you deem appropriate. I am a Christian and I belong to a Southern Baptist Church in East-Central Texas (In other words I live in the middle of the Bible belt). My personal belief is that I don't think the common descent theory of evolution is true. I am a creationist in the strictest terms.
With that stated I am willing to concede that I may be wrong and that everyone deserves to at least learn the non-Christian theories. Only a fool closes off all of the available avenues of travel. I have considered that it is possible that God created the first basic elements of life and from there it evolved, either guided or unguided by God, into it's present form. I firmly believe it is not the schools job of teaching my children about Christianity (and thus creationism); it is MY job. It is the schools job to teach them reading, writing, math and science. One of the theories of science is that man evolved. If I have not given my children sufficient information to refute that then it is my fault that they do not believe how I would want them to. The article has a quote saying that evolution should not be taught because it cannot be proven. If we cut out everything that cannot be proven then we would not inspire children to research those areas (i.e. faster than light travel) when they get older. It seems to me that many so-called Christians want to pass the teaching of religion to the government because of their laziness. I say leave reading, writing, math, and science to the teachers and religion to the ministers.
To go off on a slight tangent look at how messed up the school system is now. Kids are being passed from grade to grade without being able to read. Would you want your kid to learn religion in that environment?
My main complaint about my fellow Christians, many of whom close off the other options without a second thought, is that the focus of Christianity is not about how life came about but how to be a better person by having communion with God. We putz around fighting the relatively meaningless argument of whether man evolved or was instantaneously created in his current form . We should be talking about how much better life is by having a personal relationship with God. Christianity is not about how God created us but how we can develop a relationship with God.
I know many of my fellow/.'s out there will disagree. But you know what? This argument about evolution and creation really doesn't matter one bit because it doesn't change how exist or even whether we exist or not.
well...in case you never read it, there is a little message when you post a message here that says soemthing to the effect ALL POSTS WILL BE DELAYED. So everybody who posts probably thinks they are the first to do so.
the trailer isn't on yet. Here is what the site says:
HEADS UP: VISIT HERE ON TUESDAY FOR SOMETHING BIG!!!!!!! 15MB OR SO!! COME EARLY TO AVOID THE MAD RUSH!! *UPDATED ETA: TUESDAY LATE EVENING USA PST WE HAVE THE FILE! THE FILE IS CURRENTLY 4.8GB, CURRENTLY MAKING IT SMALLER THE TARGA 2000 WE WERE USING BLEW UP AND WE'RE BURNING IT ONTO 6 CDS, TAKING IT TO SOMEONE ELSE'S PC TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO THE WEB
**GET THOSE MIRRORS READY!!!!!!!!!!** THE LIST OF MIRRORS WILL ALSO GO UP AT JEDINET.COM STARWARZ.COM AND NEWSDROID.COM IF YOU CANT GET ON HERE LATER TONIGHT
Lewis' arugment that support will be unmanagable after the user base increases beyond a certain point is dumb. Do you think Microsoft handles all the support for all of it's products? No. Then who do people turn to when they have windows problems? They go to their computer vendor, computer guru friends, and local computer stores. In other words more than just Microsoft people support Microsoft products. The same will happen with Linux. For support people will call VA Research, Red Hat, Caldera, the HOWTOs, the news groups, irc, their next door neighbor. Not every one is going to run to Linus to solve their Linux problems.
On another topic, as available software increases more developers (i.e. windows developers) will switch to Linux. This will mean more hackers will tinker with Linux and produce more patches and kernel code. This will make up for the "supposed" lack of developers for Linux (Lewis said there where about 200 developers for the Linux kernel) compare to MS (400 kernel devs.)
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You forgot to mention thermal issues. LEO provides significant, variable thermal issues due to station attitude and orbit. A moon based station would have a very predictable thermal cycle and thus be a lot easier to design.
Reuters screwed up in quoting Ashcroft. The text of the speech says 40 terabytes.
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http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2004/82504ag.h
But I doubt this will get modded up cause everyone here takes every opportunity to blast him cause he is a republican.
Actually, you are wrong about the outsourcing of DoD weapons. I work for one of the top two DoD contractors in the defense contract division of my company. We are the lead contractor on several DoD contracts and the only things in our systems that are not American made are the COTS microchips and maybe some nuts and bolts. All software and hardware design (above the microchip level) is done in the US by US citizens, typically with some sort of classified security clearance.
I never said "poor Boeing." I said they had trouble competing internationally. That article makes it clear that Boeing was doing the same things as Airbus until the FCA was passed in the USA. I was in no means was trying to defend Boeing. I am just presenting the facts that I know about their commercial airliner business.
The issue with the tankers is not so clear cut corruption as Airbus' bribing government employees is. If the US government had been willing to sanction that deal, it would have been considered a very bad business move for the Dept. of Defense...but corruption? Please. This is a capitalist society. Any company can sell/lease whatever it wants at whatever price. The government does not have to buy it. If they needed tankers that bad and could not get the deal they wanted from Boeing, I am sure Lockheed could have come up with some sort of competitive offer.
PS: I am biased as I work for Boeing (but certainly don't speak for them). And I work in Integrated Defense Systems/NASA Systems, not the Commercial Airplanes.
I think most people following the airplane builders knew the Sonic Cruiser was dead before birth; but I still don't see how this plane is going to solve Boeing's sales problems.
The main problem Boeing is facing is that Airbus has the most efficient long haul carrier as of right now. The 7E7 is expected to be ~20% more efficient than Airbus' long hauler.
Several people here have asked a couple of questions that I think need to be addressed:
1) How is this going to solve Boeings sales problems?
Well, this is not expected to be a cure all for Boeing. Being 20% more efficient than Airbus' best long haul carrier will go a long way to making inroads for sales. Other things being done by Boeing include redesigning the 737 (a short range carrier) with winglets and new composite materials to reduce weight and creating new version of the 747 (the 400ER). The first 400ER was just delivered to Korean Airlines this week.
Internationally, there are other reasons Boeing has a hard time competing.
2) How can Boeing design a plane in such a short time?
I saw someone answer that large reuse of old designs, such as using the same general airframe and what not, made it possible. The problem is that the 7E7 does not use the standard 7x7 airframe. The standard is usually called a double bubble and if you look at any previous 7x7 you will see what I mean. The 7E7 will have a single bubble airframe. This is a new design for Boeing.
How will they develop the plane so fast? Two ways: First a large portion of the electronics and other interior assemblies are being contracted out to other companies. Boeing will act as a large system integrator. Second, Boeing learned how to overcome the prototype manufacturing problems that crop up when moving from paper to the "real thing" with the 777. Using Catia and some other CAD programs Boeing can assemble a plane on computer before assembling it in real life thus allowing them to fix all the pieces that do not properly fit before manufacture. This used to be a major factor in the time to market for planes.
3) How internet ready will it be?
Probably as internet ready as some of Boeings other planes.
Let me first say I am biased. My mother works at the coporate headquarters in for SBC in San Antonio, TX.
Now, from what she tells me, SBC is forced by current regulations to sell access to their lines to competing phone companies for less than it costs SBC to up keep those lines. I saw another poster say that SBC does not own those lines. Yes, they do and they are the only ones who do up keep on them. No other non-Bell company has the infrastructure or know how for doing line upkeep. So if SBC goes under you will suddenly find that there is no service without SBC. These so called other phone companies are just carriers with no real phone line assets. Since by federal regulation (what is often called deregulation) they don't pay SBC the cost of up keeping lines that they use, it comes out of the SBC shareholders pockets...even when SBC does not carry the majority of the customers in any given area.
Keep that in mind next time an SBC guy comes out to fix your line even though you use a different carrier. You are essentially getting a free service (or ripped off if you carrier is charging you a service fee for it).
Then they should not be called homework then. It has been driven into the mind of the average American child that homework is where you learn solve the problems and tests are where you apply that learned knowledge. Therefore these assignments should be called take home tests if they are not to collaborate with anyone or anything on them. They give take home tests at Rice U. all the time and rarely does anyone violate the honor code on the tests.
A close relative of mine works at the SBC corporate headquarters where they just changed their policy up a bit. In the past they were not allowed to surf the web at all or do personal email stuff. Now they can.
The article did not mention one company that was considering doing what it was suggesting...makes me think it was just an add for the firewall and filter makers. At least I was able to come up with one example contrary to their "news".
"Big Bang Theorist Fred Hoyle Dies At Age 86"
"...he was actually an opponent of the idea..."
So he wasn't actually a theorist of the Big Bang?
I found the release plan as of July 17 on the following site: http://www.kde.org/news_dyn.html
Current Status (as of July 17)
==============
3 days until the KDE 2.0 Feature Freeze
1 weeks until KDE 1.92 will be released
4 weeks until KDE 2.0 RC 1 will be released
7 weeks until KDE 2.0 will be released
Wow, less than 7 weeks until the expected roll out.
who said that he was not going to use AMD Athlon chips in his systems because they were not as good as PIII's...he was right. They are better.
I am not to versed in genetics or genetic algorithms, but it does seem reasonable to me that we might be able to test the results of altering genes using genetic algorithms.
...the power grid is going to fail and the year 2000 bug is going to destroy civilization as we know it...oh wait the year 2000 bug didn't happen... This is just another example of media sensationalism that every media outlet thrives on (including /.) If people start experiencing major (or even just minor) brown outs, I guarantee that more power plants will be built to compensate.
Redhat 6.1 autodetected my Voodoo Banshee. I didn't have to do a thing to configure it. My best friend has a Voodoo 3 (which uses the same drivers as the Banshee) which was also autodetected. About 2 weeks ago I replaced my banshee with a TNT2 Ultra and when I booted my box up it said that it detected a new video card and proceded to configure my TNT2 to the same settings I had for my Banshee. It was pretty smooth if you ask me.
Unfortunately Oliver Wendell Holmes and the court he sat on ruled that it is constitutional for congress to censor people if what they are saying presents "a clear and present danger..." (another Tom Clancy novel and a quote from OW Holmes) to the rest citizens of the nation. Qoute: In Schenck v. United States,78 in which defendants had been convicted of seeking to disrupt recruitment of military personnel by dissemination of certain leaflets, Justice Holmes formulated the ''clear and present danger'' test which has ever since been the starting point of argument. ''The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. End Quote.
According to FAQ #16 on 3dfx's FAQ page Linux will be supported along with BeOS... On the other hand, I really don't care because I will not buy one of these cards anyhow. Who integrates a DVD decoder on their card and doesn't put a TV out on the board because "very, very few end-users want to play PC games on a TV." Ok, fine. Gamers don't want to play the games on TV but what about those of us who would like to watch DVD's on our TV? Come on 3dfx, use your brain...
The book does cover boolean algebra, and I think it does a fairly good job of it. Of course, I took a Discrete Mathematics course before I took the class I used Katz's book for and thus knew Boolean algebra before hand.
Let me first start this off with stating my personal bias so that you can take this with how much ever salt you deem appropriate. I am a Christian and I belong to a Southern Baptist Church in East-Central Texas (In other words I live in the middle of the Bible belt). My personal belief is that I don't think the common descent theory of evolution is true. I am a creationist in the strictest terms.
/.'s out there will disagree. But you know what? This argument about evolution and creation really doesn't matter one bit because it doesn't change how exist or even whether we exist or not.
With that stated I am willing to concede that I may be wrong and that everyone deserves to at least learn the non-Christian theories. Only a fool closes off all of the available avenues of travel. I have considered that it is possible that God created the first basic elements of life and from there it evolved, either guided or unguided by God, into it's present form. I firmly believe it is not the schools job of teaching my children about Christianity (and thus creationism); it is MY job. It is the schools job to teach them reading, writing, math and science. One of the theories of science is that man evolved. If I have not given my children sufficient information to refute that then it is my fault that they do not believe how I would want them to. The article has a quote saying that evolution should not be taught because it cannot be proven. If we cut out everything that cannot be proven then we would not inspire children to research those areas (i.e. faster than light travel) when they get older. It seems to me that many so-called Christians want to pass the teaching of religion to the government because of their laziness. I say leave reading, writing, math, and science to the teachers and religion to the ministers.
To go off on a slight tangent look at how messed up the school system is now. Kids are being passed from grade to grade without being able to read. Would you want your kid to learn religion in that environment?
My main complaint about my fellow Christians, many of whom close off the other options without a second thought, is that the focus of Christianity is not about how life came about but how to be a better person by having communion with God. We putz around fighting the relatively meaningless argument of whether man evolved or was instantaneously created in his current form . We should be talking about how much better life is by having a personal relationship with God. Christianity is not about how God created us but how we can develop a relationship with God.
I know many of my fellow
Aaron
So even though I have pre-ordered the CD from CDNOW I shouldn't download this?
well...in case you never read it, there is a little message when you post a message here that says soemthing to the effect ALL POSTS WILL BE DELAYED. So everybody who posts probably thinks they are the first to do so.
From Countdown to SW:
*****UPDATE: THE FILE IS NOW 23MB, AND WILL BE READY IN ABOUT ONE HOUR AND A HALF(7:30PM ET)
Uh...were is it...the only thing I could find were 2 copies of the original trailer.
the trailer isn't on yet. Here is what the site says:
HEADS UP: VISIT HERE ON TUESDAY FOR SOMETHING BIG!!!!!!! 15MB OR SO!! COME EARLY TO AVOID THE MAD RUSH!!
*UPDATED ETA: TUESDAY LATE EVENING USA PST
WE HAVE THE FILE! THE FILE IS CURRENTLY 4.8GB, CURRENTLY MAKING IT SMALLER
THE TARGA 2000 WE WERE USING BLEW UP AND WE'RE BURNING IT ONTO 6 CDS, TAKING IT TO SOMEONE ELSE'S PC TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO THE WEB
**GET THOSE MIRRORS READY!!!!!!!!!!**
THE LIST OF MIRRORS WILL ALSO GO UP AT JEDINET.COM STARWARZ.COM AND NEWSDROID.COM IF YOU CANT GET ON HERE LATER TONIGHT
Lewis' arugment that support will be unmanagable after the user base increases beyond a certain point is dumb. Do you think Microsoft handles all the support for all of it's products? No. Then who do people turn to when they have windows problems? They go to their computer vendor, computer guru friends, and local computer stores. In other words more than just Microsoft people support Microsoft products. The same will happen with Linux. For support people will call VA Research, Red Hat, Caldera, the HOWTOs, the news groups, irc, their next door neighbor. Not every one is going to run to Linus to solve their Linux problems.
On another topic, as available software increases more developers (i.e. windows developers) will switch to Linux. This will mean more hackers will tinker with Linux and produce more patches and kernel code. This will make up for the "supposed" lack of developers for Linux (Lewis said there where about 200 developers for the Linux kernel) compare to MS (400 kernel devs.)