The story we heard from SpaceX is that due to the weather, they couldn't get a boat out in the 15-foot seas, and the NASA chase plane they usually use wasn't available, so they went up in Elon's private jet equipped with an antenna jerry-rigged from a pizza pan stuck in the window. Maybe next time they'll use a Pringles can instead.:D
One of the mpeg experts was lamenting the encoding - there was no error correction enabled in the MPEG encoding, and the images were interlaced from an NTSC 29.97 down to a 15-fps feed into the encoder, and interlacing crushes the compression ratio, I gather. They've been informed of this, so hopefully the next launch will see some rock-solid quality video.
Montana's opposition to REAL-ID died in the Senate. Hopefully New Hampshire's won't suffer the same fate in the coming days. There's a big push to pressure NH senators about it being led by http://www.nhcaspian.org/ .
You don't answer to my first question. You answered : training and responsibilty are necessary. Right, everyone agrees. But my first question was : how the right to carry a gun can protect children from being shot BY CRIMINALS like happened in some schools.
One infrequently mentioned fact is that the school shooting in Pearl, Missisippi, by Kip Kinkel, a deranged student, was brought to a halt by a vice-principal who retrieved his handgun from his car in the parking lot, and held Kinkel at gunpoint until the police arrived.
Of course, they decided that was intolerable, so they passed the "Gun Free (Defenseless Victim) School Zone Act" so that the vice-principal would face felony charges if he had his gun in his car in the school parking lot. Can't have school shooting sprees rudely interrupted by armed good guys, now can we?
Even Lott's arguments fail in this examination. All that is proved is a correlation between increased gun ownership and crime.
Have you read any part of the book other than the title, I wonder? Lott controls for a myriad of variables in his analysis, and makes the comparisons you suggest.
Talk about piss in the wind... Here I am responding to it.
See page 77-79 and page 31 of the TIFF 6.0 spec, dated June 3, 1992, involving the ExtraSamples tag for storing associated alpha data in a TIFF.
Looks to be not early enough to predate the Apple patent date, but it refers to "Compositing Digital Images" by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff of Lucasfilm Ltd, ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings Volume 18, Number 3, July 1984.
Actually, it produces water only if it is burned with pure oxygen. When burned with air, the combustion also produces nitrogen oxides (NOx), but in much smaller amounts than hydrocarbons.
Where'd you get your numbers, my friend? Are you sure you pressed the right calculator buttons?
Hydrogen has 141.90 megajoules of energy per kilogram, as compared to 47.27 megajoules per kilogram for gasoline and 46.00 for kerosene. Its liquid density is 70.8 kilograms per cubic meter, as compared to about 60 for average gasoline. This means that one liter of liquid hydrogen, at 0.0708 kilograms, contains 10.05 megajoules of energy, while a liter of gasoline contains 2.84 megajoules.
Of course, you have to discount the hydrogen by a third to take into account the energy expended in refrigerating it to liquid (needs about 5 kilowatt-hours per kilogram), but it still beats gasoline by a fair sight in terms of energy storage.
A friend of mine, who's now an attorney, used to be a LOX Jockey for the Navy. The fighter pilots breathe pure oxygen at night and above 10,000 feet during the day, and it's supplied from a tank of liquid oxygen that's plugged in to the side of the plane. A relatively small unit, capable of being hefted and installed by a single person, contains a 24-hour or more supply of O2 for the pilot.
So there is some precedent for the use of cryogenic liquids in airplanes - it's not off-the-wall technology.
And besides, you wouldn't have to pipe the liquid to the engines - you'd just have regulators attached to the tanks that deliver gaseous hydrogen to the gas turbines.
Testing 4,302,216,663,924,736 keys using CPU cycles that would otherwise have dissipated as heat - how expensive is that? One keyblock is 132 bytes, and a keyblock can contain as many as 2^33 keys, so that many keys represents as few as 500,843 bytes of data traffic in either direction, over a span of two years.
They're a bunch of ignorant dorks if they think this represents a 59 cent per second hit on their network.
I've been on hold in various queues for the last half hour - apparently their customer service department can't keep up.
I was one of the people Northpoint pulled the plug on last week. I had a 208k SDSL line for which I was paying about $100 per month. This is actually the third time I've had my DSL service interrupted - I started with DSpeed, which went belly up and sold out to Flashcom. Had to change IP addrs at that point. Flashcom then went bankrupt, interrupting my service, then Northpoint went bankrupt, and I'm still off the air.
PacBell DSL doesn't cover my neighborhood.
A couple of other providers only offered ADSL with dynamic IP addresses.
Earthlink was going to make me pay $129 per month for 144k symmetrical with a static IP - their normal $49.95 service only offers dynamic IPs.
I just placed an order with Sprint Broadband Direct - http://www.sprintbroadband.com/ and will have my microwave link installed on the 18th. Typically 512k to 1.5Mb down, 256k max up, $39.95 per month with Sprint Long Distance service, with a static IP. Not only that, I'm fed up with DSL providers going under. Sick of it.
After writing this, I'm *still* on hold with Earthlink Customer Service waiting to cancel my DSL order.
It's happening here in the US. Once they finish licensing and registering and banning guns and gun owners, they'll start in on the rest of the Bill of Rights in earnest, making the Rampart division of the LAPD look like choir boys.
And then we'll wind up like Britain - where law-abiding citizens are not permitted to have privacy on their computers, nor to own the tools with which they can defend themselves, and criminal thugs may attack with impunity thanks to a government guarantee of disarmed victims, and since the penalty for a.22 popgun and a submachine gun are essentially the same, nat urally they opt for the submachine gun.
All freedoms are intertwined, and the right to armed self-defense lies at the foundation.
If you live in California and haven't signed the self-defense Constitutional amendment initiative, get thee to http://www.vetothegovernor.org/ post haste.
This is the one thing that Microsoft would love to keep quiet, I'm sure. How relevant is two times the performance if you have to pay 10x as much to get it?
What's a copy of Windows NT Server run these days?
If I'm going to set up a mission-critical server, I want something that will not die.
Well, you could always shell out a couple hundred thousand bucks for a low-end Stratus Continuum system runing HP/UX 10.20, but you still wouldn't escape the occasional kernel patch.
(Stratus makes computers that do "pair-and-spare" hardware fault tolerance.)
I read an article that described his courtroom talents as inspiring to watch, and this seems to be another example.
It must have been almost poetic to watch him deftly lay the trap for Mr. Rose, and in springing it, simultaneously catching Rose in a lie and bringing the BeOS situation into evidence.
The term "HARDWARE" is very clearly separately defined in the EULA as "the computer system or computer system component." They are not licensing the hardware to you, they are selling it to you.
The argument that HARDWARE is part of "product(s)" to be returned for a refund is prima-facie fallacious.
Uh, have you looked at the Gateway online catalog lately? You can choose from a myriad of options in configuring your computer - CPU, memory, video cards, keyboard style, etc, etc. That's one of the features they trumpet in their advertising.
Your choices for OS? Windows 98 or Windows NT. Microsoft or Microsoft. They won't sell it to you without a Microsoft OS, leaving your only recourse if you do not wish to use the Microsoft OS to request a refund "for the unused product" AS REQUIRED IN THE EULA.
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Not to mention melting due to aerodynamic heating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cvYIHIgH-s
The story we heard from SpaceX is that due to the weather, they couldn't get a boat out in the 15-foot seas, and the NASA chase plane they usually use wasn't available, so they went up in Elon's private jet equipped with an antenna jerry-rigged from a pizza pan stuck in the window. Maybe next time they'll use a Pringles can instead. :D
One of the mpeg experts was lamenting the encoding - there was no error correction enabled in the MPEG encoding, and the images were interlaced from an NTSC 29.97 down to a 15-fps feed into the encoder, and interlacing crushes the compression ratio, I gather. They've been informed of this, so hopefully the next launch will see some rock-solid quality video.
Montana's opposition to REAL-ID died in the Senate. Hopefully New Hampshire's won't suffer the same fate in the coming days. There's a big push to pressure NH senators about it being led by http://www.nhcaspian.org/ .
You don't answer to my first question. You answered : training and responsibilty are necessary. Right, everyone agrees. But my first question was : how the right to carry a gun can protect children from being shot BY CRIMINALS like happened in some schools.
One infrequently mentioned fact is that the school shooting in Pearl, Missisippi, by Kip Kinkel, a deranged student, was brought to a halt by a vice-principal who retrieved his handgun from his car in the parking lot, and held Kinkel at gunpoint until the police arrived.
Of course, they decided that was intolerable, so they passed the "Gun Free (Defenseless Victim) School Zone Act" so that the vice-principal would face felony charges if he had his gun in his car in the school parking lot. Can't have school shooting sprees rudely interrupted by armed good guys, now can we?
Even Lott's arguments fail in this examination. All that is proved is a correlation between increased gun ownership and crime.
Have you read any part of the book other than the title, I wonder? Lott controls for a myriad of variables in his analysis, and makes the comparisons you suggest.
Talk about piss in the wind... Here I am responding to it.
See page 77-79 and page 31 of the TIFF 6.0 spec, dated June 3, 1992, involving the ExtraSamples tag for storing associated alpha data in a TIFF.
Looks to be not early enough to predate the Apple patent date, but it refers to "Compositing Digital Images" by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff of Lucasfilm Ltd, ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings Volume 18, Number 3, July 1984.
-Michael Pelletier.
Here's an interesting page on the history and technology of aircraft nuclear power:
http://www.megazone.org/ANP/
Actually, it produces water only if it is burned with pure oxygen. When burned with air, the combustion also produces nitrogen oxides (NOx), but in much smaller amounts than hydrocarbons.
-Michael Pelletier.
Where'd you get your numbers, my friend? Are you sure you pressed the right calculator buttons?
Hydrogen has 141.90 megajoules of energy per kilogram, as compared to 47.27 megajoules per kilogram for gasoline and 46.00 for kerosene. Its liquid density is 70.8 kilograms per cubic meter, as compared to about 60 for average gasoline. This means that one liter of liquid hydrogen, at 0.0708 kilograms, contains 10.05 megajoules of energy, while a liter of gasoline contains 2.84 megajoules.
Of course, you have to discount the hydrogen by a third to take into account the energy expended in refrigerating it to liquid (needs about 5 kilowatt-hours per kilogram), but it still beats gasoline by a fair sight in terms of energy storage.
-Michael Pelletier.
A friend of mine, who's now an attorney, used to be a LOX Jockey for the Navy. The fighter pilots breathe pure oxygen at night and above 10,000 feet during the day, and it's supplied from a tank of liquid oxygen that's plugged in to the side of the plane. A relatively small unit, capable of being hefted and installed by a single person, contains a 24-hour or more supply of O2 for the pilot.
So there is some precedent for the use of cryogenic liquids in airplanes - it's not off-the-wall technology.
And besides, you wouldn't have to pipe the liquid to the engines - you'd just have regulators attached to the tanks that deliver gaseous hydrogen to the gas turbines.
-Michael Pelletier.
Testing 4,302,216,663,924,736 keys using CPU cycles that would otherwise have dissipated as heat - how expensive is that? One keyblock is 132 bytes, and a keyblock can contain as many as 2^33 keys, so that many keys represents as few as 500,843 bytes of data traffic in either direction, over a span of two years.
They're a bunch of ignorant dorks if they think this represents a 59 cent per second hit on their network.
Guess what? PG&E was REQUIRED BY LAW to sell off all their generating capacity!
You keep your power, we'll keep our software, airplanes, produce, dairy products, and high-tech equipment.
Nyaahh...
-Michael Pelletier.
I've been on hold in various queues for the last half hour - apparently their customer service department can't keep up.
I was one of the people Northpoint pulled the plug on last week. I had a 208k SDSL line for which I was paying about $100 per month. This is actually the third time I've had my DSL service interrupted - I started with DSpeed, which went belly up and sold out to Flashcom. Had to change IP addrs at that point. Flashcom then went bankrupt, interrupting my service, then Northpoint went bankrupt, and I'm still off the air.
PacBell DSL doesn't cover my neighborhood.
A couple of other providers only offered ADSL with dynamic IP addresses.
Earthlink was going to make me pay $129 per month for 144k symmetrical with a static IP - their normal $49.95 service only offers dynamic IPs.
I just placed an order with Sprint Broadband Direct - http://www.sprintbroadband.com/ and will have my microwave link installed on the 18th. Typically 512k to 1.5Mb down, 256k max up, $39.95 per month with Sprint Long Distance service, with a static IP. Not only that, I'm fed up with DSL providers going under. Sick of it.
After writing this, I'm *still* on hold with Earthlink Customer Service waiting to cancel my DSL order.
-Michael Peleltier.
It's happening here in the US. Once they finish licensing and registering and banning guns and gun owners, they'll start in on the rest of the Bill of Rights in earnest, making the Rampart division of the LAPD look like choir boys.
.22 popgun and a submachine gun are essentially the same, nat urally they opt for the submachine gun.
And then we'll wind up like Britain - where law-abiding citizens are not permitted to have privacy on their computers, nor to own the tools with which they can defend themselves, and criminal thugs may attack with impunity thanks to a government guarantee of disarmed victims, and since the penalty for a
All freedoms are intertwined, and the right to armed self-defense lies at the foundation.
If you live in California and haven't signed the self-defense Constitutional amendment initiative, get thee to http://www.vetothegovernor.org/ post haste.
-Michael Pelletier
And we have our very own President Bill Clinton, friend of communists everywhere from China to Cuba.
-Michael Pelletier.
Not to mention that the statute of limitations ran out.
They managed to punish him pretty well in spite of the fact that they had no case.
-Michael Pelletier.
This is the one thing that Microsoft would love to keep quiet, I'm sure. How relevant is two times the performance if you have to pay 10x as much to get it?
What's a copy of Windows NT Server run these days?
-Michael Pelletier.
Well, you could always shell out a couple hundred thousand bucks for a low-end Stratus Continuum system runing HP/UX 10.20, but you still wouldn't escape the occasional kernel patch.
(Stratus makes computers that do "pair-and-spare" hardware fault tolerance.)
I read an article that described his courtroom talents as inspiring to watch, and this seems to be another example.
It must have been almost poetic to watch him deftly lay the trap for Mr. Rose, and in springing it, simultaneously catching Rose in a lie and bringing the BeOS situation into evidence.
The term "HARDWARE" is very clearly separately defined in the EULA as "the computer system or computer system component." They are not licensing the hardware to you, they are selling it to you.
The argument that HARDWARE is part of "product(s)" to be returned for a refund is prima-facie fallacious.
Uh, have you looked at the Gateway online catalog lately? You can choose from a myriad of options in configuring your computer - CPU, memory, video cards, keyboard style, etc, etc. That's one of the features they trumpet in their advertising.
Your choices for OS? Windows 98 or Windows NT. Microsoft or Microsoft. They won't sell it to you without a Microsoft OS, leaving your only recourse if you do not wish to use the Microsoft OS to request a refund "for the unused product" AS REQUIRED IN THE EULA.