A strongly recommended item. Garmin and Magellan are among the more reliable brands. "Selective availability" is no longer a limitation. If you have a GPS receiver, be sure you know how to use it if navigating with it."
Somebody please explain how GPS would work on Mars? (i.e. without an existing network of orbiting satellites)
I agree with the France bit... although I find the dot eff air bit more interesting - sounds a hell of a lot better than dot kom or dot kom dot hey you
Racing Fuel is commonly rated as 100RON. I should really say *was* - alot of racing categories, F1 included, now use regular pump unleaded - about 98RON.
The new generation of diesel cars, whether they be common rail, turbocharged or direct injection, can offer extremely high performance with very low fuel consumption. For example, the BMW 330d has bucket loads of torque 288lb-ft at a low 3,000rpm and 184bhp - that helps make it a genuine performance diesel - try 0-100km/h in 7.2s!.
Within the next few years BMW, Audi and VW plan to add high performance diesel cars to their lineups as well as to their upper-luxury models.
On a related note BMW have also just introduced the hydrogen powered 750hL. Cleaner even than diesel.
"Around the world in 80 days on 1,000 liters of fuel. Volkswagen sets up an incredible record with its Lupo 3L TDI, the world's first-ever 3 liters car: In 80 days this car traveled 33,333 kilometers across 5 continents using only 792,57 liters of fuel. 2,38 litters per 100 kilometers at an good average speed of 85,6 kilometers per hour has never been done before"
Seems highly plausable when you consider the 'special modifications' that have been made to the USS Jimmy Carter - including the 'Dry Dock Shelter (DDS). Amazing.
There have been a couple of semi-ralted articles in the Sydney press in the past few days:
Consumers with mobiles can't hide: about the new services that 3G will bring - mainly push SMS advertising, walk past a department store and get an ad & discount voucher for that store (or it's rival).
Mobile network trap: about the IMEI database, called Find A Phone, now in service in Australia and it's ability to identify stolen mobile phones - even after they have had a change of SIM-card.
...In a shed behind his Dural property he pours the waste oil into a drum before mixing it with 15 per cent alcohol and a dash of caustic soda. The concoction is left to stand overnight. The next day he has 20 litres of biodiesel ready to pour into the tank of his diesel van...
...He conceded his van smelt "like a Chinese kitchen" and that making fuel by the road sometimes attracted suspicion. "In Sydney the police think you are making a bomb."...
At last take the population of people between 15-64 is about 853,191,410 so 15% makes about 127,978,712 people. Accounting for the capital city bit and large age spread in those numbers, I'll divide by a third to 42,232,975. [source]
That's A LOT of page impressions!
note to self: must learn Chinese and make some Chinese p0rn sites
You can even join or create your own drug cartel (free registration req.)
IIRC each game score generates a unique number key, that when submitted to their site, is translated back to your score and entered into the ranking table. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Still, I prefer the older non-ranking dos versions or for some added depth try Pimp Wyld
The movie was mainly filmed in the neighbouring town of Forbes, as Parkes was deemed too modern looking
Ahh yes, I seem to remember this now.
I agree that it doesn't really matter which station actually received the famous images. When the movie first came out in Australia some months back now, there seemed to be a few ex-Honeysuckle Creek people that were quite upset that their station was not mentioned or credited with the transmissions. It even made the papers here in Sydney for a few weeks.
The Dish was based upon the events of 20th July 1969.
The true story involved not the Parkes tracking station but the little known Honeysuckle Creek tracking station. Honeysuckle was responsible transmitting the bulk of NASA's southern hemisphere communications during this period.
Note also that the Honeysuckle Creek station, dishes and all, was dismantled some years later (IIRC it's now farm paddock) while the Parkes station is still operational, hence the film set was based in Parkes.
This is quite normal. A lot of auto manufacturers now have a 'limp-home' mode built into the ECU of their cars. Should your car suffer some kind of problem, overheating for instance, the ECU will powerdown a few cylinders to enable the car to be driven to the next service point. Mercedes-Benz have been using this technology for years now.
A CPU feature that slows the itself until a 'within-range' temperature is reached is better than having a blackened & useless, BBQ processor. I know what I'd prefer. If you'd rather fry your CPU - disable it and go crazy.
Slashdot Mirror
SXC sells bandwidth on its cable link, your ISP must have purchased bandwidth for you to be using it - if not, nothing has changed.
IIRC, Optus@Home is the largest subscriber. I'm not sure if Bigpond uses this link at all.
If you're interested in seeing a Buran first hand - there's one sitting in a large tent here in Sydney, Australia - on the site of the old casino.
I think it costs about AUD$7 entry.
"Personal GPS receiver 1 Recommended Camping
A strongly recommended item. Garmin and Magellan are among the more reliable brands. "Selective availability" is no longer a limitation. If you have a GPS receiver, be sure you know how to use it if navigating with it."
Somebody please explain how GPS would work on Mars? (i.e. without an existing network of orbiting satellites)
I agree with the France bit... although I find the dot eff air bit more interesting - sounds a hell of a lot better than dot kom or dot kom dot hey you
Do you mean like the Nokia CardPhone 2.0?
You have it around the wrong way.
Higher the octane - the higher the power.
Racing Fuel is commonly rated as 100RON. I should really say *was* - alot of racing categories, F1 included, now use regular pump unleaded - about 98RON.
The best are yet to come.
The new generation of diesel cars, whether they be common rail, turbocharged or direct injection, can offer extremely high performance with very low fuel consumption. For example, the BMW 330d has bucket loads of torque 288lb-ft at a low 3,000rpm and 184bhp - that helps make it a genuine performance diesel - try 0-100km/h in 7.2s!.
Within the next few years BMW, Audi and VW plan to add high performance diesel cars to their lineups as well as to their upper-luxury models.
On a related note BMW have also just introduced the hydrogen powered 750hL. Cleaner even than diesel.
Stay tuned!
From VW's Lupo80Days site:
They used to. The new generation of turbo-diesels are actually quite clean.
More interesting than the new A2 is the VW Lupo 3l in German or French - yes thats 3 litres of diesel per 100km!
VW proved their point by driving one around the world in 2000 and the average fuel used for the journey was 3 litres per 100km. Amazing
Seems highly plausable when you consider the 'special modifications' that have been made to the USS Jimmy Carter - including the 'Dry Dock Shelter (DDS). Amazing.
There have been a couple of semi-ralted articles in the Sydney press in the past few days:
Consumers with mobiles can't hide: about the new services that 3G will bring - mainly push SMS advertising, walk past a department store and get an ad & discount voucher for that store (or it's rival).
Mobile network trap: about the IMEI database, called Find A Phone, now in service in Australia and it's ability to identify stolen mobile phones - even after they have had a change of SIM-card.
enjoy
Where do I report the fact that their site has been slashdotted???
The Sydney Morning Herald posted a very good story about Biodiesel last week.
But hey - at least AOL is planning to stop using Internet Explorer and instead use their own product, Codename: Komodo/AOL 7.0 (no relation to ActiveState's Mozilla IDE). They may even decide to release an 'official' Linux product at the same time.
I think this is good news for everybody.
At last take the population of people between 15-64 is about 853,191,410 so 15% makes about 127,978,712 people. Accounting for the capital city bit and large age spread in those numbers, I'll divide by a third to 42,232,975. [source]
That's A LOT of page impressions!
note to self: must learn Chinese and make some Chinese p0rn sites
Beermat Software make a windows version of this game called Dope Wars that features a World ranking ladder for all you aspiring drug dealers.
You can even join or create your own drug cartel (free registration req.)
IIRC each game score generates a unique number key, that when submitted to their site, is translated back to your score and entered into the ranking table. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Still, I prefer the older non-ranking dos versions or for some added depth try Pimp Wyld
Ahh yes, I seem to remember this now.
I agree that it doesn't really matter which station actually received the famous images. When the movie first came out in Australia some months back now, there seemed to be a few ex-Honeysuckle Creek people that were quite upset that their station was not mentioned or credited with the transmissions. It even made the papers here in Sydney for a few weeks.
Sorry to reply to myself but...
Here is NASA's page about Honeysuckle Creek and it's role in the Apollo moon landing.
The Dish was based upon the events of 20th July 1969.
The true story involved not the Parkes tracking station but the little known Honeysuckle Creek tracking station. Honeysuckle was responsible transmitting the bulk of NASA's southern hemisphere communications during this period.
Complete details can be found here.
Note also that the Honeysuckle Creek station, dishes and all, was dismantled some years later (IIRC it's now farm paddock) while the Parkes station is still operational, hence the film set was based in Parkes.
IBM's site has a nice explanation (in flash) here
An interesting point... But wouldn't this be one of the first sites to be blocked by any reliable censorware?
Yeah. I noticed it too yesterday. As my post says - I had a localized ad for IBM served.
What's going on?
Yup, there's another version over on c|net as well. Tridgell and Allison are now on the VA NAS team. [ VA Systems press release ]
The Chinese NASA equivelant is the China Aerospace Science Technology Corporation - don't bother clicking the English link all it says is Sorry, We are doing this work now, Please wait a while... ALL YOUR... sorry.
But seriously there was a press release back in November 2000 that suggested they would start flights "at the beginning of the 21st century"
Sometime very soon?
This is quite normal. A lot of auto manufacturers now have a 'limp-home' mode built into the ECU of their cars. Should your car suffer some kind of problem, overheating for instance, the ECU will powerdown a few cylinders to enable the car to be driven to the next service point. Mercedes-Benz have been using this technology for years now.
A CPU feature that slows the itself until a 'within-range' temperature is reached is better than having a blackened & useless, BBQ processor. I know what I'd prefer. If you'd rather fry your CPU - disable it and go crazy.