This will only encourage the weird science crowd who are looking at the contrails as "chemtrails" and look at the whole thing as an effort to control global warming, or do other mean and nasty things.
The test was only performed at sixty percent of full power since full power (40 kilowatts) wasn't available at this location. The system is actually capable of discharges of aproximately forty feet
I can see this causing brown outs if you do this in the local small town. Complete with stories of UFOs etc.
This brings to mind a comparison of how cell phones work, where you can just drive around and maintain your coverage.
Ultimately, I think something like that would be ideal for wireless, but I see lots of technical issues on something like that, never mind the political issues of developing coverage.
Trying to do this while trying to maintian free access would be difficult.
It looks to me that some of the things implement in the SP3, that Personal Settings icon, is precisely that sort of Windows dressing trying to preempt the Judges decision.
My first reaction, cynical as it is, is that the reason that this is happening is that no one really uses hotmail except as a junk mail account, something to use when entering an address into a form online etc.
Still, there is promised security of the MS passport system etc. In this case it looks like more like a spam enhancement system. since this is supposed to be something to verify your login across the net. This means that most email addresses there have been preverified by MS as being valid.
Look at the difference between wavs and MP3s. uncompressed vs compressed.
Even with as huge format, all you need is someone with a acceptable to the mass market format that people will tolerate. People listen to MP3s all the time even though it is usually easy to hear the difference between that and the real original.
depending on the content, people will put up with a lot of stuff.
Larry Niven's 1973 SF short story "Flash Crowd" predicted that one consequence of cheap teleportation would be huge crowds materializing almost instantly at the sites of interesting news stories. Twenty years later the term passed into common use on the Internet to describe exponential spikes in website or server usage when one passes a certain threshold of popular interest (what this does to the server may also be called slashdot effect).
So now we get to slashdot a party, bar, or other social event.
I wonder how long it will take for some marketroid to figure out a way to use the phenom as a way to promote their rather bad and awful party, bar, or social event?
If you spin it around you see that the asteroid orbits at about a 45 degree angle to the orbit of the earth, making it very doubtful that it will even come close to Venus.
In any case I think that the rule that applies is the speed bump rule, that says that if you are going fast enough, the effects of a speed bump can generally be ignored. If the asteroid is going fast enough then the effect is rather small.
quick and dirty http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/impact.html
very detailed http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Science/Astero ids.html
Finally, a Neat Java Applet with a display of the orbit can be seen here. You can Zoom in, spin the solar system around, and animate the display. The data they are using does not currently jive with projected impact date, apparently using the updated information.
I remember on guy on the Well went through and destroyed all of his old postings because it had reached this point, that it was no longer restricted to the community, but was now starting to be of a wider import. And because it might be embarrassing in his later career.
I can personally think of a few guys who got into programming by screwing with the level editor for Doom.
Turns out things things like that are a pretty good intro.
somehow I thing that not as many people would get into programming by tinkering with the macro language of your typical generic office suite, for example.
why convert to morse code just to change to speach?
The comedy of having the speech from the peripheral speaking out the appropriate message of doom, translated from the morse code output from the kernal panic
Of course, this would be more appropriate in other operating systems, but you get the idea
Slashdot Mirror
This will only encourage the weird science crowd who are looking at the contrails as "chemtrails" and look at the whole thing as an effort to control global warming, or do other mean and nasty things.
Google reveals about 18,000 hits on the word "chemtrails" alone. Have a party.
If dozens show up, this is not so good.
if a hundred thousand show up, politicians will be amazed.
So what is the likely out come? I am guessing a few thousand.
I am thinking of the classicc example of HDTV, for example.
doubtless there are many that will just be implemented, but those that need wide spread consumer purchase to succeed might not meet expectations.
I can see this causing brown outs if you do this in the local small town. Complete with stories of UFOs etc.
Musn't upset the town fathers.
Ultimately, I think something like that would be ideal for wireless, but I see lots of technical issues on something like that, never mind the political issues of developing coverage.
Trying to do this while trying to maintian free access would be difficult.
Not that I hope this tactics works.
Personally, I hope it backfires
[shrug]
Still, there is promised security of the MS passport system etc. In this case it looks like more like a spam enhancement system. since this is supposed to be something to verify your login across the net. This means that most email addresses there have been preverified by MS as being valid.
a gift to spammers everywhere.
Look at the difference between wavs and MP3s. uncompressed vs compressed.
Even with as huge format, all you need is someone with a acceptable to the mass market format that people will tolerate. People listen to MP3s all the time even though it is usually easy to hear the difference between that and the real original.
depending on the content, people will put up with a lot of stuff.
Larry Niven's 1973 SF short story "Flash Crowd" predicted that one consequence of cheap teleportation would be huge crowds materializing almost instantly at the sites of interesting news stories. Twenty years later the term passed into common use on the Internet to describe exponential spikes in website or server usage when one passes a certain threshold of popular interest (what this does to the server may also be called slashdot effect).
So now we get to slashdot a party, bar, or other social event.
I wonder how long it will take for some marketroid to figure out a way to use the phenom as a way to promote their rather bad and awful party, bar, or social event?
If you spin it around you see that the asteroid orbits at about a 45 degree angle to the orbit of the earth, making it very doubtful that it will even come close to Venus.
In any case I think that the rule that applies is the speed bump rule, that says that if you are going fast enough, the effects of a speed bump can generally be ignored. If the asteroid is going fast enough then the effect is rather small.
quick and dirty
http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/impact.html
very detailedo ids.html
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Science/Aster
Finally, a Neat Java Applet with a display of the orbit can be seen here. You can Zoom in, spin the solar system around, and animate the display. The data they are using does not currently jive with projected impact date, apparently using the updated information.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=2002+NT7
NOTE: of course, as seen here
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/
the possible impact in 2019 has been ruled out.
and of course all the basic information on asteroids can be found here, for those who are interested.
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/ Curriculum.Support/Space.Science/Near.Earth.Impact .Hazards/.index.html
Numbers USA has a free service for faxing them. Yep you got to register, but this makes sense so that you don't have spam bots abusing the service.
There is also this Slashdot story.
Not that it doesn't address a wide variety of technical issues.
and technology should be fun
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/video_index/vide o_index.html
seems like there are a mixture of applications.
12,000 is nice, but I am sure that 120,000 would be far more useful, and 1.2 million or even 12 million would be needed to ensure a long term future.
Not exactly at the right order of magnitude.
It would be interestin toi know what the exact financilas are, but this is likely confidential information.
http://www.securecomputing.com/index.cfm?sKey=738
As it turns out, this is the problem child. SCC has a patent on this technology, and seems to have used it in SE Linux
it was sad in a way...
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/close.html
give distances both in AU and LD (lunar distances) for the dozen or so close passes that happen each month or so.
Not that you should be alarmed.
of course
doh!
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UK Government will explore further the possibilities of using OSS as the default exploitation route for Government funded R&D software."
which is a fascinating surpriseProbably someone will start coding those interactive video pron games
I leave it as an exercise for your imaginations as to the best way to implement this.
Turns out things things like that are a pretty good intro.
somehow I thing that not as many people would get into programming by tinkering with the macro language of your typical generic office suite, for example.
we need more of this kind of stuff.
The comedy of having the speech from the peripheral speaking out the appropriate message of doom, translated from the morse code output from the kernal panic
Of course, this would be more appropriate in other operating systems, but you get the idea
I can't do that dave
I'm melting ....
beam me up, scotty
feed me
I wonder if there is a morse code to voice coverter device out there? that would be a neat module to have to plug in as a peripheral
of course, if the code goes fast enough, you can gain the ability to recognise whole words as a sort of warble.