Yes, you can plug an external flash drive into its USB port. And if you are running the right software, it will even work.
Certainly. I have an archive of mpeg-4 movies and tv series on an external drive plugged into a USB hub that hangs off the back of our Wii, that I use mplayer to play on the widescreen tv. Great media player, pretty good interface, and it is real handy to use to pull shows from our torrentserver for new tv shows that we legally download (having paid our TV license fee and Sky subscription) with a low effort and short learning curve. With the Wii I can even plug in a mouse and keyboard and use any of the browsers.
I'll never buy a new Sony product after the rootkit debacle, and the treatment of GeoHotz. Pity that the average sheep can't see past their shiny games to see the slime underneath.
EULAs are not contracts. They are a wishlist by the software writers, and such are part of an honour system. They are not legally binding in sane jurisdictions.
This sounds interesting - I wonder if these coatings are the same as the coatings that are regularly applied to premium telescope eyepieces and refractor objectives?
I know that there are very expensive multilayer coatings that can guarantee 99.9% transmission across the visible wavelengths when applied to an air-glass surface. It's very cool to see a lens with these coatings as from and angle it will be almost black and rotating to face-on it will effectively disappear.
Is there any idea as to the cost of these coatings?
Actually they don't. One of the basic tenets of the system is that the orbits are known to the receivers, as well as the distance to the receiver. This is the method that allows the triangulation.
Moving the satellites out of the current stable orbits would just make a mess of things, and would render the 4-hour ephemeris that the satellite transmits inaccurate during the time of movement.
Given the number of satellites in orbit in the GPS constellation, and given the number of satellites in view at any given time (6-12 generally) there is absolutely no advantage in moving a satellite. It's simply not done for the GPS satellites.
You may have been confusing GPS with the likes of the optical spy satellites, that certainly can have the orbits altered.
IIRC SN1987A had about 26 neutrinos detected, as seen after the event in the recorded data. This small number of detections implies that extra-galactic supernovae are extremely unlikely to be picked up outside of statistical noise, simply because we don't detect enough of the neutrinos output. We are very unlikely to be able to have a neutrino early warning system to alert us to a supernova being seen in the next few hours after the alert from the early warning.
To my knowledge, the amount of fuel remaining was used to guarantee that it would re-enter sooner rather than later (a 25kg of fuel burn was executed at the end of 2005). There were plans mooted to recover the UARS using the Shuttle, but this fell by the wayside with various budget cuts and safety concerns. It appears that there was no need to have de-orbit fuel kept when the shuttle was the recovery vehicle, and when the plans fell through there wasn't enough fuel left to de-orbit in a known manner. The advantage of using the fuel in hte meantime allowed a few more years of data gathering.
The working altitude for UARS was never going to have a safe parking orbit, and the orbit of the ISS was close enough in 2010 that an avoidance manouevre was needed to reduce the possibility of an impact. The spacecraft was left in a known stable attitude, but as the tumbling has shown, there has been an outside influence to cause this level of rotation. Maybe a pebble-sized item collided, and this is what's causing the tens-of-seconds wobble.
Thierry Legault has done some wonderful captures of satellites as they've gone overhead. It's interesting to see the slow tumble of this particular satellite, which confirms that it's pretty much out of action (even though we already know that). Apparently the satellite had a possible minor collision with debris in 2007 (see page 15 of 52 of http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nwgs/securing-the-skies-full-report-1.pdf ) which is the likely reason that this satellite is tumbling.
I completed my Bachelor's degree in 2002, and went into the workforce. As things stand now with the interesting economic times ahead, I changed jobs to one that I work 4 10-hour days Fri-Mon. This leaves me with 3 free days mid-week, and days free until 16.30 otherwise. I've applied and been given a position on a taught Masters of Engineering course that I will pursue for the one year this full-time course takes, while still working a professional-level position with a multinational company as a systems admin.
I'll have the 7-8 years of relevant experience in the industry as well as a Masters degree in a relevant field, without having to have the year or two out of the workforce to upskill and reeducate.
For me, as I took slightly longer to graduate from University, this route is necessary to achieve my life and career goals..
In an accretion disk the majority of matter is a small amount of interaction with other matter in the disk before it ends up close to or past the event horizon, and matter accretes from outside the disk to end up in the disk.
In a galaxy, the vast majority of the matter in orbit is extremely unlikely to end up anywhere near the galaxy centre, and matter does not accrete in any significant volume (excluding galaxy mergers and collisions).
Of course, both a genuine accretion disk and a galaxy are effects of matter in a gravity well....
EULA/= Contract.
The EULA is nothing more than a wishlist by the software developer. EULAs on Hardware are non-relevant as it's covered by the relevant Sale of Goods act.
Enterprise customers rely on contracts to define what the appropriate behaviour is.
EULAs are nothing more than an attempt to bully and browbeat customers, and there is no hope of legally binding EULAs in the EU.
This compares to the previous generation of VAG diesel engines, which were Indirect injection. Most new clean diesels are common-rail designs, directly injecting with injector pressures at about 2 kilobar or higher.
I really do think that it's amazing what the right hardware in the right place can do for increasing our knowledge. The optics on this spacecraft that generated the data, are no larger than an average webcam at ~1.2mm aperture, F/5 focal ratio described as a telescope (6mm f/5 described as a camera lens). Really impressive dataset. I can't wait for the Virtual Moon Atlas to have this dataset available..
Connecting your modified device to Sony's network may breach a contract that you agreed to.
Nobody I know has signed a contract with Sony for the access to PSN. I've only seen an agreement to pay for services, no contract. EULAs and click-through boxes do not a contract make..
Of course there is an implicit contract, covered by our Sale of Goods act here in Ireland, that is protecting the customer.
I think it could make an interesting case here if an Irish citizen took Sony to the Small Claims court for the damage done to a console by the removal of the otherOS option..
And we wonder why Nasa planted a Mars probe in the wrong place.
To an engineer trained under the Metric system, the phrase 20mil is ambiguous, and the best fit for an answer is 20 mil*limetres*.
To an engineer under the Imperial system (why Lord, why) 20 mil could be 20 millionths of an inch, i.e. 2x10^-5 inches (or 508 Angstrom)
It may be an engineering convention to combin imperial measurement with metric scaling, but that just causes confusion.
Sounds quite like the University of Limerick, Ireland. Back in the day, the network was "upgraded" to WinNT 4.0 about 6 months before it went retail gold. Since then things have been going downhill....
Exchange was now the default mailserver, it crapped out regularly and failed about fortnightly. There were fun with the ability to run rules on public folders, allowing the generation of two folders for a new post in one and then putting the new rules on those folders. It takes about 10 minutes for the exponential fodler creation to kill the server.
There were another few snafu's there, but things appear to be realtively calm these days..
I wonder what the IP that'll be acquired by MS will consist of?
My guess will be the items that were relevant to the MSNovell patent deal, to remove that need for MS to provide protection for those that have used SuSE..
The 'active' screens with the requirement for very expensive glasses is definitely a barrier to adoption. Pretty much only the true early adopters / gadget freaks / over-rich will get these, and even then mostly for bragging rights. Active screens are not suitable for those with kids, or those people with friends.
The 'passive' screens are so much more expensive than the 'active' screens, that's another barrier to consumer takeup, at least these sets have cheap near-disposable glasses as a requirement to get the 3d effect. This is a better option for those that actually have a more than a few friends that might come over to watch the screen.
Now when the screens that have the micro-lens array in front of the pixel matrix, that will allow a better 3d effect, if only in certain places around the set. That'll be an improvement for sure.
My pie-in-the-sky idea is a micromirror array, fed by three-colour lasers, that'll illuminate the eye's pupil with the correct pattern for each eye, with tracking of the pupil locations. This would ensure that no matter where one stood in front of the display, the correct image would be seen at all times. Anyone know if this is a realistic possibility?
And all of the 3d diaplays will do absolutely nothing for those of us that have e.g. a lazy eye or other problems with binocular vision. My girlfriend has poor vision in one eye, and doesn't have true binocular vision available, so 3d tv is not a priority.
In a 1988 or 1989 edition of Astronomy Now (an english astronomy magazine), there was a very interesting article detailing Australian meteor craters.
In this article, there were about 30 craters listed, along with pictures and descriptions of the area, with the best-guess ages of the craters. Along with the radio-isotope dating, if there was a local name for the area that implies a large amount of sky-based fire in an area without volcanic activity, and without the vegetation to have a large bushfire.
A great examle of this is the Henbury Craters complex (NT, 24 34'S, 133 10'E) which is a collection of 14 craters, about 130 kilometres south of Alice Springs. They are scattered over an area of about one square kilometre. The craters range from 10 metres to about 73 metres across. The Aboriginal name for these craters is ''chindu chinna waru chingi yabu'' which roughly means ''sun walk fire devil rock'' text quoted from http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/trek/4wd/Over11.htm
Typical! I read the fine article, and it looks as though the article already has this listed.....
At least the VW/Audi design engineers used one set of protocols to talk to all of the available modules across the product ranges - unlike BMW where the protocols for all of the non-engine components differ, both between the different components and between different versions of the same component (often with no changes in the serial number)...
At about 11.22 local time here in Ireland, I got to see the Shuttle pass overhead just after the EFT seperation. Seeing both objects at 1700mph and a nice low altitude of 60 miles meant that the speed across the sky was really fast, and that the brightness of the shuttle was on the high side of magitude -5 or so. The orange of the EFT was clearly seen also.
The icing on the cake was seeing the ISS as well about 20 minutes later at about the same real speed but much slower across the sky given its distance.
I'm looking forwards to seeing the Shuttle play catch-up over the next few nights!
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Yes, you can plug an external flash drive into its USB port. And if you are running the right software, it will even work.
Certainly. I have an archive of mpeg-4 movies and tv series on an external drive plugged into a USB hub that hangs off the back of our Wii, that I use mplayer to play on the widescreen tv. Great media player, pretty good interface, and it is real handy to use to pull shows from our torrentserver for new tv shows that we legally download (having paid our TV license fee and Sky subscription) with a low effort and short learning curve. With the Wii I can even plug in a mouse and keyboard and use any of the browsers.
I'll never buy a new Sony product after the rootkit debacle, and the treatment of GeoHotz. Pity that the average sheep can't see past their shiny games to see the slime underneath.
EULAs are not contracts. They are a wishlist by the software writers, and such are part of an honour system. They are not legally binding in sane jurisdictions.
Misread the book title as "Securing the Chicks" and thought - ooh using nerd skills in the dating game....
Was a little disappointed.
Is there any idea as to the cost of these coatings?
Actually they don't. One of the basic tenets of the system is that the orbits are known to the receivers, as well as the distance to the receiver. This is the method that allows the triangulation. Moving the satellites out of the current stable orbits would just make a mess of things, and would render the 4-hour ephemeris that the satellite transmits inaccurate during the time of movement. Given the number of satellites in orbit in the GPS constellation, and given the number of satellites in view at any given time (6-12 generally) there is absolutely no advantage in moving a satellite. It's simply not done for the GPS satellites. You may have been confusing GPS with the likes of the optical spy satellites, that certainly can have the orbits altered.
Actually it's TDI referring to "Turbocharged Direct Injection" as a reference to improvements over the IDI (In Direct Injection) diesel engine.
IIRC SN1987A had about 26 neutrinos detected, as seen after the event in the recorded data. This small number of detections implies that extra-galactic supernovae are extremely unlikely to be picked up outside of statistical noise, simply because we don't detect enough of the neutrinos output. We are very unlikely to be able to have a neutrino early warning system to alert us to a supernova being seen in the next few hours after the alert from the early warning.
To my knowledge, the amount of fuel remaining was used to guarantee that it would re-enter sooner rather than later (a 25kg of fuel burn was executed at the end of 2005). There were plans mooted to recover the UARS using the Shuttle, but this fell by the wayside with various budget cuts and safety concerns. It appears that there was no need to have de-orbit fuel kept when the shuttle was the recovery vehicle, and when the plans fell through there wasn't enough fuel left to de-orbit in a known manner. The advantage of using the fuel in hte meantime allowed a few more years of data gathering. The working altitude for UARS was never going to have a safe parking orbit, and the orbit of the ISS was close enough in 2010 that an avoidance manouevre was needed to reduce the possibility of an impact. The spacecraft was left in a known stable attitude, but as the tumbling has shown, there has been an outside influence to cause this level of rotation. Maybe a pebble-sized item collided, and this is what's causing the tens-of-seconds wobble.
Thierry Legault has done some wonderful captures of satellites as they've gone overhead. It's interesting to see the slow tumble of this particular satellite, which confirms that it's pretty much out of action (even though we already know that). Apparently the satellite had a possible minor collision with debris in 2007 (see page 15 of 52 of http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nwgs/securing-the-skies-full-report-1.pdf ) which is the likely reason that this satellite is tumbling.
I'll have the 7-8 years of relevant experience in the industry as well as a Masters degree in a relevant field, without having to have the year or two out of the workforce to upskill and reeducate.
For me, as I took slightly longer to graduate from University, this route is necessary to achieve my life and career goals..
In an accretion disk the majority of matter is a small amount of interaction with other matter in the disk before it ends up close to or past the event horizon, and matter accretes from outside the disk to end up in the disk.
In a galaxy, the vast majority of the matter in orbit is extremely unlikely to end up anywhere near the galaxy centre, and matter does not accrete in any significant volume (excluding galaxy mergers and collisions).
Of course, both a genuine accretion disk and a galaxy are effects of matter in a gravity well....
Of course - depending on your country of domocile, EULAs are meaningless things that have no legal standing.
;) You just need to develop an Australian accent?
EULA /= Contract.
The EULA is nothing more than a wishlist by the software developer. EULAs on Hardware are non-relevant as it's covered by the relevant Sale of Goods act.
Enterprise customers rely on contracts to define what the appropriate behaviour is.
EULAs are nothing more than an attempt to bully and browbeat customers, and there is no hope of legally binding EULAs in the EU.
Wikipedia's page on TDI
This compares to the previous generation of VAG diesel engines, which were Indirect injection. Most new clean diesels are common-rail designs, directly injecting with injector pressures at about 2 kilobar or higher.
I really do think that it's amazing what the right hardware in the right place can do for increasing our knowledge. The optics on this spacecraft that generated the data, are no larger than an average webcam at ~1.2mm aperture, F/5 focal ratio described as a telescope (6mm f/5 described as a camera lens). Really impressive dataset.
I can't wait for the Virtual Moon Atlas to have this dataset available..
Connecting your modified device to Sony's network may breach a contract that you agreed to.
Nobody I know has signed a contract with Sony for the access to PSN. I've only seen an agreement to pay for services, no contract. EULAs and click-through boxes do not a contract make..
Of course there is an implicit contract, covered by our Sale of Goods act here in Ireland, that is protecting the customer.
I think it could make an interesting case here if an Irish citizen took Sony to the Small Claims court for the damage done to a console by the removal of the otherOS option..
And we wonder why Nasa planted a Mars probe in the wrong place. To an engineer trained under the Metric system, the phrase 20mil is ambiguous, and the best fit for an answer is 20 mil*limetres*. To an engineer under the Imperial system (why Lord, why) 20 mil could be 20 millionths of an inch, i.e. 2x10^-5 inches (or 508 Angstrom) It may be an engineering convention to combin imperial measurement with metric scaling, but that just causes confusion.
Sounds quite like the University of Limerick, Ireland. Back in the day, the network was "upgraded" to WinNT 4.0 about 6 months before it went retail gold. Since then things have been going downhill.... Exchange was now the default mailserver, it crapped out regularly and failed about fortnightly. There were fun with the ability to run rules on public folders, allowing the generation of two folders for a new post in one and then putting the new rules on those folders. It takes about 10 minutes for the exponential fodler creation to kill the server. There were another few snafu's there, but things appear to be realtively calm these days..
This is most likely related to the phenomena known as Sprites, Jets or Elves, that have been captured coming from the tops of thunderclouds. Better explanations here http://www.sky-fire.tv/index.cgi/spritesbluejetselves.html
My guess will be the items that were relevant to the MSNovell patent deal, to remove that need for MS to provide protection for those that have used SuSE..
Time will tell I suppose.
The 'active' screens with the requirement for very expensive glasses is definitely a barrier to adoption. Pretty much only the true early adopters / gadget freaks / over-rich will get these, and even then mostly for bragging rights. Active screens are not suitable for those with kids, or those people with friends.
The 'passive' screens are so much more expensive than the 'active' screens, that's another barrier to consumer takeup, at least these sets have cheap near-disposable glasses as a requirement to get the 3d effect. This is a better option for those that actually have a more than a few friends that might come over to watch the screen.
Now when the screens that have the micro-lens array in front of the pixel matrix, that will allow a better 3d effect, if only in certain places around the set. That'll be an improvement for sure.
My pie-in-the-sky idea is a micromirror array, fed by three-colour lasers, that'll illuminate the eye's pupil with the correct pattern for each eye, with tracking of the pupil locations. This would ensure that no matter where one stood in front of the display, the correct image would be seen at all times. Anyone know if this is a realistic possibility?
And all of the 3d diaplays will do absolutely nothing for those of us that have e.g. a lazy eye or other problems with binocular vision. My girlfriend has poor vision in one eye, and doesn't have true binocular vision available, so 3d tv is not a priority.
In a 1988 or 1989 edition of Astronomy Now (an english astronomy magazine), there was a very interesting article detailing Australian meteor craters.
In this article, there were about 30 craters listed, along with pictures and descriptions of the area, with the best-guess ages of the craters. Along with the radio-isotope dating, if there was a local name for the area that implies a large amount of sky-based fire in an area without volcanic activity, and without the vegetation to have a large bushfire.
A great examle of this is the Henbury Craters complex (NT, 24 34'S, 133 10'E) which is a collection of 14 craters, about 130 kilometres south of Alice Springs. They are scattered over an area of about one square kilometre. The craters range from 10 metres to about 73 metres across. The Aboriginal name for these craters is ''chindu chinna waru chingi yabu'' which roughly means ''sun walk fire devil rock''
text quoted from http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/trek/4wd/Over11.htm
Typical! I read the fine article, and it looks as though the article already has this listed.....
At least the VW/Audi design engineers used one set of protocols to talk to all of the available modules across the product ranges - unlike BMW where the protocols for all of the non-engine components differ, both between the different components and between different versions of the same component (often with no changes in the serial number)...
At about 11.22 local time here in Ireland, I got to see the Shuttle pass overhead just after the EFT seperation. Seeing both objects at 1700mph and a nice low altitude of 60 miles meant that the speed across the sky was really fast, and that the brightness of the shuttle was on the high side of magitude -5 or so. The orange of the EFT was clearly seen also.
The icing on the cake was seeing the ISS as well about 20 minutes later at about the same real speed but much slower across the sky given its distance.
I'm looking forwards to seeing the Shuttle play catch-up over the next few nights!