A total of 88 satellites were launched beginning in May 1997, but several malfunctioned after arriving in orbit.
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space built the satellite platforms and said the craft would operate up to eight years. The Iridium constellation is divided into six groups of satellites circling 421 miles above Earth.
So... 1997 + 8 years = 2005.
Are they replacing satellites that have reached EOL ?
They are making a video iPod with a touch screen interface.
Yes! That makes more sense than any of the other guesses here. Think of a device that can receive/edit/send/Play video. Maybe have wireless capability. You can receive movies (rented or made with FCP) and play them. Makes perfect sense as the video follow-on for the iPod...
In Steve Jobs' dreams perhaps. There were almost 700 million cell phones sold last year and an estimated 800-900 million this year.
The grandparent post is more correct than you give it credit for. A cellphone is used for how many minutes per hour on average... maybe 5 ? An average iPod owner probably exceeds 30 mins per hour average usage. So, if you multiply the number of iPods sold by the visibility factor the iPod is becoming ubiquitous.
Dude, I wish... I'm about 2-km from a hellsouth SLC... that has no DSLAM and no fiber... so guess what that means... no eff-ing DSL! Also no cable (its hard getting the cows to subscribe I'm told). It hurts to be so close to so much bandwidth... and none for moi. All that water and not a drop to drink:/
Oh really... And what would you suggest being done about the 12 level-3 conduits and the 5 or 6 williams pipes a few miles from my house ? And what exactly would you propose about the IXC pipes about 6 miles in the other direction. And none of this addresses the AT&T/MCI/Sprint pipes.
Speaking of AT&T... there is the most curious AT&T facility about 40-ish miles from me. On a little country road, built into the side of a low hill. A big tall microwave/cell tower on top and 3 HUGE gensets under a brand new concrete porch. Double fenced, with a cam watching the entrance. Rarely any vehicles in there (but I only go past it once or twice a month, and usually at night so who knows about the daylight hours). A week or so after 9/11 I happen to be driving down that road... deputy sherrif backed in blocking the entrance with his parking lights on. One was there everytime I went by for the next couple of months. WTF is that place ?? I'm guessing a fiber switching facility, otherwise I dunno. The other strange thing about that place is the 3 stovepipes off to one side of the property. Maybe 20-30 feet tall. Heavily guyed. Strangest things I have ever seen on a comm facility.
Perhaps use a small solar panel as the catlyst voltage to drive the reaction ? Maybe even a smallish wind turbine. Combining these may be the key to making something like this viable.
Networking, introduced in 1990 with AppleTalk and AppleShare in System 7 -> Windows for Workgroups and Windows 3.11 in 1992
Child please. AppleTalk was available on the first 128K Mac that Apple sold in 1984. There was no valid use for it until Apple released the LaserWriter I in 1985, but it was there (and it did work). A number of us got some cables and gathered at a house in early 1985 for a game of Bus'd Out (Apple's in-house port of Maze Wars). I was using a Mac 512k at the time, so I know it worked then. In fact, AppleTalk was a follow on port of an earlier Apple// product called SchoolBus.
I've always thought... isn't there some technical way to find out what people are watching, anonymously?
Well... well, well, well.. I worked at ACN/NMR like almost 20 years ago (seems just like yesterday) on (are y'all ready for this ?) 360/BAL code maintainence ! Boy was that a trip. I do remember that the folks over on the lab side were working on stuff then (like IR recognition) which I guess never panned out. They were having problems I think with the old IR stuff picking up pets and difficulty discrimating between two very close persons vs one large person. It happens ! I vaguely recall that they were trying all kinds of oddball ideas to figure out who was really sitting (or standing) in front of the TV. Really far out stuff in those days. Looks like Arbitron finally tackled the tuff one.
Except for the fact that there are plenty of perfectly capable systems out there, IN USE, that the OS vendor no longer support the release that they are running (e.g. Apple). So this means that Apple would have to dredge out old source (if available) and generate yet another OS release for the old systems *or* tell everyone "tough luck Charlie" and just ignore the issue. Bleh!
Don't alfalfa fields get 2 or 3 cuttings minimum per season?
I think it depends on the type of grass, the location and the climate. I'm in north Florida (on 20 acres). Here I have to cut my bahai-grass (driveway and yard) about every 9-10 days during the summer. And thats with a tractor and bushog. Otherwise the front bumper on my car starts acting like a wheat combine. So the right grass in the right location can be quite productive. Some farmers (like one of my neighbors) rotates beef cattle between his various pastures. The cows eat the grass, digest, and produce manure (nature's fertilizer) along with some methane I'm sure. So the cycle already exists in one form.
I'm real curious about the steps required to convert the biomass into a usable fuel. Anyone have links for this ?
These corporations are destroying the value of our essential property: our identities.
Amen. It would be so much better if the law were written so that they can collect all the information they want, but... they could only give it out when we authorize them to do so on a case by case basis. Want to apply for a credit card ? Then give the card issuer the ability (via a token or something) to access the data. No more freebies! Remember, its you and me that the data describes (supposidly) so we should have control over who gets to see it.
But when can I get one of those little bicycle light generators with the proper interface to recharge the shuffle ? Heck, with a different interface, I could recharge the cell phone at the same time.
A review of Apple hardware reveals that there are often pieces of architecture that go into the product that are not used (iMac's mezzanine slot anyone?).
Locate a 128K or early 512K Mac (1984-vintage). Get out the torx-drivers and open the case. Look back under the monitor where the 3.5 floppy drive is located. The metal frame has a cutout for the 5.25-in Twiggy drive that was supposed to be used early in the design. I guess Apple was covering their ass in case they changed their mind at the last minute.
everyone is comparing the cost of a CD to the cost of buying the same on iTMS. On iTMS you can buy just the tracks you want. So instead of getting maybe $6 revenue for the CD sale, they might be getting $2 or $3 for sale of just certain tracks. I can see this changing the whole dimensions of music distribution. Certain tracks might end up costing more than others. Artists might release tracks randomly and ignore the physical CD market.
State and local governments, businesses, and eventually the military decided that since everyone had a unique SS number, they could save themselves some money and effort by simply requiring everyone to use their SS number as an ID number.
Well yes, but lets talk about how we got here (no defense mind you, just how)...
In the early 70s I worked in a data center at a largish community college. We were using SSNs for student IDs. Wrong ? Yes. Easy ? Yes. But in those days, we had no online access. Everything was done on punch cards and printouts. IIRC, grades were posted on a bulletin board with just SSN and your class grade (no names). So as time passes, new hardware flows down the pipe, new software is written and no one thought about it all that much. I left before the terminals showed up, so I'm not sure how long it took them before the light finally went on.
Think of this in the context of Y2K and date fields... what was once a simple programming objective has been made extremly complex by the internet, scammers, spammers and such. Time passes and things get more complicated. Some developers think outside the box and some don't (they just look forward to retirement).
Why am I left with the unmistakeable feeling that the real purpose of this is to set a 'value' on the occurance of a data loss incident. Thereby giving MS an out (perhaps in court) should someone actually loose data and attempt to sue. Perhaps I'm being a mite paranoid, but then....
Screw that. Gimme a nice solid deck of 5081 cards any day. Now that was data ! Back when a Megabyte was enough to make your back sore. 1MB = 1,048,576 bytes = 13,108 cards = ~6.5 boxes of cards (at roughly 10 lbs/box) = ~65 lbs. Were talking serious data here.
"Matching Tie and Handkerchief" has two parallel groves on one side. No mention of the material on the second track either. I always wondered why that side played so fast until I accidently hit the hidden track one time.
The only two times a nuclear bomb was used in anger, they were both used to prepare the way for the surrender and occupation of the target.
IHMO, that was not the exact reason they were dropped on Japan. The US (not sure if the allies were brought in on the decision making process) had a choice... either take the war to the Japanese homeland by invading, or drop the bombs and see if they could shock the political leadership of Japan into surrendering. The latter was the choice taken and it worked out. My recollection (a little hazy, no totally positive) is that the US had no additional bombs ready (for immediate use) after the first two. So if the first two had not worked out, then there would have been a bigger mess. The primary objective was to save lives of US/allied servicemen who surely would have perished in large numbers upon invading Japan. For comparison, look up the losses during various island invasions for the Pacific theatre of WW-II.
The context that you have to keep in mind is that prior to the first bomb being dropped, the whole concept of an atomic bomb was only theoretical (outside of the US development and testing). No one (other governments, i.e. Japan) had ever seen or heard of the effect of an atomic bomb. They had no reference of what to fear. Today, we have much knowledge (as well as old newsreels of test explosions) to see why there is something to fear.
As a closing note, an atomic/nuclear weapon is as much or more a biological weapon (due to the fallout and long term health effects) as it is a weapon of destruction. Blow something up and you will have health and medical consequences that far outweigh the destruction effects.
Perhaps everyone they interviewed wanted salary paid in Krugerrands or USPS Money Orders. The days of taking stock in place of salary are somewhat over (esp with SCO).
If SCO dies during the trial , where does that leave the whole Linux IP issue ? Not proven ? Wouldn't it be better if they can at least survive until they get totally defeated in court, as a deterrent against other legal attacks ?
IANAL, so anything I say is a half-assed guess...
Possibility 1: SCO has no tangible assets and looses representation. IBM asks for SJ, then tries to sieze whatever remains of SCO. IBM then dumps the IP in question into the public domain, thereby relaxing 40+ years of pent-up angst about IBMs real intentions (remember: Big Blue ?)
Possibility 2: SCO files chapter 11. Some white knight (perhaps dingy-white) steps up to take over the operating assets of SCO (think KM) then cuts some kind of settlement with IBM.
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One of the spaceflightnow.com links above says...
A total of 88 satellites were launched beginning in May 1997, but several malfunctioned after arriving in orbit.
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space built the satellite platforms and said the craft would operate up to eight years. The Iridium constellation is divided into six groups of satellites circling 421 miles above Earth.
So... 1997 + 8 years = 2005.
Are they replacing satellites that have reached EOL ?
Yes! That makes more sense than any of the other guesses here. Think of a device that can receive/edit/send/Play video. Maybe have wireless capability. You can receive movies (rented or made with FCP) and play them. Makes perfect sense as the video follow-on for the iPod...
iVid ??
The grandparent post is more correct than you give it credit for. A cellphone is used for how many minutes per hour on average... maybe 5 ? An average iPod owner probably exceeds 30 mins per hour average usage. So, if you multiply the number of iPods sold by the visibility factor the iPod is becoming ubiquitous.
Dude, I wish... I'm about 2-km from a hellsouth SLC... that has no DSLAM and no fiber... so guess what that means... no eff-ing DSL! Also no cable (its hard getting the cows to subscribe I'm told). It hurts to be so close to so much bandwidth... and none for moi. All that water and not a drop to drink :/
Oh really... And what would you suggest being done about the 12 level-3 conduits and the 5 or 6 williams pipes a few miles from my house ? And what exactly would you propose about the IXC pipes about 6 miles in the other direction. And none of this addresses the AT&T/MCI/Sprint pipes.
Speaking of AT&T... there is the most curious AT&T facility about 40-ish miles from me. On a little country road, built into the side of a low hill. A big tall microwave/cell tower on top and 3 HUGE gensets under a brand new concrete porch. Double fenced, with a cam watching the entrance. Rarely any vehicles in there (but I only go past it once or twice a month, and usually at night so who knows about the daylight hours). A week or so after 9/11 I happen to be driving down that road... deputy sherrif backed in blocking the entrance with his parking lights on. One was there everytime I went by for the next couple of months. WTF is that place ?? I'm guessing a fiber switching facility, otherwise I dunno. The other strange thing about that place is the 3 stovepipes off to one side of the property. Maybe 20-30 feet tall. Heavily guyed. Strangest things I have ever seen on a comm facility.
"Mac OS-X Panthera Tigris Tigris" (Bengal Tiger)
"Mac OS-X Panthera Tigris Altaica" (Siberian Tiger)
"Mac OS-X Panthera Tigris Corbetti" (Indochinese Tiger)
"Mac OS-X Panthera Tigris Amoyensis" (South China Tiger)
"Mac OS-X Panthera Tigris Sumatrae" (Sumatran Tiger)
None of these have the explicit panache of "Mac OS-X Tiger", but they would serve as a reminder of the stupidity of this whole episode... right Carl ?
Perhaps use a small solar panel as the catlyst voltage to drive the reaction ? Maybe even a smallish wind turbine. Combining these may be the key to making something like this viable.
Networking, introduced in 1990 with AppleTalk and AppleShare in System 7 -> Windows for Workgroups and Windows 3.11 in 1992
Child please. AppleTalk was available on the first 128K Mac that Apple sold in 1984. There was no valid use for it until Apple released the LaserWriter I in 1985, but it was there (and it did work). A number of us got some cables and gathered at a house in early 1985 for a game of Bus'd Out (Apple's in-house port of Maze Wars). I was using a Mac 512k at the time, so I know it worked then. In fact, AppleTalk was a follow on port of an earlier Apple// product called SchoolBus.
I've always thought... isn't there some technical way to find out what people are watching, anonymously?
Well... well, well, well.. I worked at ACN/NMR like almost 20 years ago (seems just like yesterday) on (are y'all ready for this ?) 360/BAL code maintainence ! Boy was that a trip. I do remember that the folks over on the lab side were working on stuff then (like IR recognition) which I guess never panned out. They were having problems I think with the old IR stuff picking up pets and difficulty discrimating between two very close persons vs one large person. It happens ! I vaguely recall that they were trying all kinds of oddball ideas to figure out who was really sitting (or standing) in front of the TV. Really far out stuff in those days. Looks like Arbitron finally tackled the tuff one.
Except for the fact that there are plenty of perfectly capable systems out there, IN USE, that the OS vendor no longer support the release that they are running (e.g. Apple). So this means that Apple would have to dredge out old source (if available) and generate yet another OS release for the old systems *or* tell everyone "tough luck Charlie" and just ignore the issue. Bleh!
Don't alfalfa fields get 2 or 3 cuttings minimum per season?
I think it depends on the type of grass, the location and the climate. I'm in north Florida (on 20 acres). Here I have to cut my bahai-grass (driveway and yard) about every 9-10 days during the summer. And thats with a tractor and bushog. Otherwise the front bumper on my car starts acting like a wheat combine. So the right grass in the right location can be quite productive. Some farmers (like one of my neighbors) rotates beef cattle between his various pastures. The cows eat the grass, digest, and produce manure (nature's fertilizer) along with some methane I'm sure. So the cycle already exists in one form.
I'm real curious about the steps required to convert the biomass into a usable fuel. Anyone have links for this ?
There's nothing Long Term about operating systems for personal computers!
just for my trusty 360/40 here keeping the house warm. man, look at that electical meter spin...
Hmmmmm... has anyone written a 360/BAL emulator recently... maybe for PowerPC ?
runs off and looks for my ancient copy of the P.O.O.
Amen. It would be so much better if the law were written so that they can collect all the information they want, but... they could only give it out when we authorize them to do so on a case by case basis. Want to apply for a credit card ? Then give the card issuer the ability (via a token or something) to access the data. No more freebies! Remember, its you and me that the data describes (supposidly) so we should have control over who gets to see it.
But when can I get one of those little bicycle light generators with the proper interface to recharge the shuffle ? Heck, with a different interface, I could recharge the cell phone at the same time.
Is there some way I can nominate the parent post for Best of Craigslist ? It really belongs there ;)
Locate a 128K or early 512K Mac (1984-vintage). Get out the torx-drivers and open the case. Look back under the monitor where the 3.5 floppy drive is located. The metal frame has a cutout for the 5.25-in Twiggy drive that was supposed to be used early in the design. I guess Apple was covering their ass in case they changed their mind at the last minute.
everyone is comparing the cost of a CD to the cost of buying the same on iTMS. On iTMS you can buy just the tracks you want. So instead of getting maybe $6 revenue for the CD sale, they might be getting $2 or $3 for sale of just certain tracks. I can see this changing the whole dimensions of music distribution. Certain tracks might end up costing more than others. Artists might release tracks randomly and ignore the physical CD market.
Well yes, but lets talk about how we got here (no defense mind you, just how)...
In the early 70s I worked in a data center at a largish community college. We were using SSNs for student IDs. Wrong ? Yes. Easy ? Yes. But in those days, we had no online access. Everything was done on punch cards and printouts. IIRC, grades were posted on a bulletin board with just SSN and your class grade (no names). So as time passes, new hardware flows down the pipe, new software is written and no one thought about it all that much. I left before the terminals showed up, so I'm not sure how long it took them before the light finally went on.
Think of this in the context of Y2K and date fields... what was once a simple programming objective has been made extremly complex by the internet, scammers, spammers and such. Time passes and things get more complicated. Some developers think outside the box and some don't (they just look forward to retirement).
Why am I left with the unmistakeable feeling that the real purpose of this is to set a 'value' on the occurance of a data loss incident. Thereby giving MS an out (perhaps in court) should someone actually loose data and attempt to sue. Perhaps I'm being a mite paranoid, but then....
Screw that. Gimme a nice solid deck of 5081 cards any day. Now that was data ! Back when a Megabyte was enough to make your back sore. 1MB = 1,048,576 bytes = 13,108 cards = ~6.5 boxes of cards (at roughly 10 lbs/box) = ~65 lbs. Were talking serious data here.
"Matching Tie and Handkerchief" has two parallel groves on one side. No mention of the material on the second track either. I always wondered why that side played so fast until I accidently hit the hidden track one time.
IHMO, that was not the exact reason they were dropped on Japan. The US (not sure if the allies were brought in on the decision making process) had a choice... either take the war to the Japanese homeland by invading, or drop the bombs and see if they could shock the political leadership of Japan into surrendering. The latter was the choice taken and it worked out. My recollection (a little hazy, no totally positive) is that the US had no additional bombs ready (for immediate use) after the first two. So if the first two had not worked out, then there would have been a bigger mess. The primary objective was to save lives of US/allied servicemen who surely would have perished in large numbers upon invading Japan. For comparison, look up the losses during various island invasions for the Pacific theatre of WW-II.
The context that you have to keep in mind is that prior to the first bomb being dropped, the whole concept of an atomic bomb was only theoretical (outside of the US development and testing). No one (other governments, i.e. Japan) had ever seen or heard of the effect of an atomic bomb. They had no reference of what to fear. Today, we have much knowledge (as well as old newsreels of test explosions) to see why there is something to fear.
As a closing note, an atomic/nuclear weapon is as much or more a biological weapon (due to the fallout and long term health effects) as it is a weapon of destruction. Blow something up and you will have health and medical consequences that far outweigh the destruction effects.
With all due respect, $175K is probably a weeks billings for the Nazgul. Chump change for Big Blue.
Perhaps everyone they interviewed wanted salary paid in Krugerrands or USPS Money Orders. The days of taking stock in place of salary are somewhat over (esp with SCO).
IANAL, so anything I say is a half-assed guess...
Possibility 1: SCO has no tangible assets and looses representation. IBM asks for SJ, then tries to sieze whatever remains of SCO. IBM then dumps the IP in question into the public domain, thereby relaxing 40+ years of pent-up angst about IBMs real intentions (remember: Big Blue ?)
Possibility 2: SCO files chapter 11. Some white knight (perhaps dingy-white) steps up to take over the operating assets of SCO (think KM) then cuts some kind of settlement with IBM.
Possibility 3: WTF knows ?