On the Vomit Comet, it's pretty-nearly zero-g (0.001-0.003 G's... you float) for about 25-26 seconds, and then there's a period (I wasn't keeping track of how long) for about 1 minute that's around 1.8 G. I would assume the ESA plane follows a pretty similar flight path. The transitions are *pretty* distinct.
It sounds like the bureaucracy is going to be tough to change. However, is it possible to get your group moved *inside* of IT so you can get the job done? It might require less work to do this and still let you get your job done.
It sounds silly, but if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
This is exactly why school boards and prosecutors are generally elected officials in the U.S. Prosecutors who do draconian things, and school boards who do stupid things, have this funny way of getting booted during the next election. The system *eventually* works, and until then, hopefully some judge will laugh these charges out of court.
A friend of mine was pleasantly surprised when he had a Maxtor drive, that had been submerged in flood water for 3 days, spin up and work perfectly. Every other brand of disk that was submerged was dead, but all the Maxtors survived. So if you're planning to run your hard drive under water, I suspect Maxtor is a good choice...
The company I work for did a bunch of reliability testing on SCSI disks a few years ago. They would run the drives flat out for weeks on end in big RAID arrays. Seagates and Quantums held up about the best, IBMs didn't fair so well, and Fujitsus fell somewhere in the middle. That said, I've heard terrible things about Seagate IDE drives...
Every hard drive manufacturer seems to go through spurts of good drives and bad. WDs were great for awhile (pre 1 GB days), got real unreliable (click of death), and now are pretty decent again. Same can probably said for different brands at different times. Hard drives have moving parts, and all moving parts eventually fail. RAID 1 is cheap and hard drives are huge, so save yourself some pain and just install a RAID 1 wherever you would ordinarily use a single disk.
While speaking volume certainly isn't the only "annoyance factor" of people talking on cell phones in public, it certainly bugs the crap out of me. So why do people feel the need to talk louder on cell phones than regular phones? The answer, I think, is the lack of what is called "sidetone".
My understanding is, way back in the early days of telephones, the old-time equivalent of user-interface experts noticed that people controlled their speaking volume better if they could here a bit of their own voice through the ear piece. If you pick up a modern land-line phone today, press one digit, and speak into the silence, you'll still hear your own voice back in your ear. Now, unplug the phone from the wall and speak into it. Notice the difference?
I can't speak for every cell phone on the market, but every one I've ever used lacks this "sidetone". You don't hear your own voice in the ear piece, so you don't have that natural indication of your speaking volume. I'm sure this is done for power-consumption purposes, but it's the main reason I really don't like to talk to people at length on my cell phone. I would guess this is why people unconsciously speak louder on cell phone than wired phones.
(As a correlary, I'd wager that the reason this seems to be more of an American problem is because we still use wired phones so extensively. In the U.S. most landline calls are still cheaper than cellular calls. [In most places local calls are flat-rate, and long distance is going that way rather quickly. In most parts of the world though, all calls are billed by the minute.] I know in much of the world the opposite is the case.)
The only problem with theory is that most corn isn't grown where that High Plains Aquifer is. (Sure, there's a bit here and there, but most of that part of the country is wheat and grazing land.) Corn does take a lot of water, so it's mostly grown where the water is: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, etc. The draining of the High Plains Aquifer may be a problem, but it doesn't affect corn production.
I wondered the same thing about the Delta 88. My grandmother drove a 1981 model up until about a year ago. (20+ years!) Now, admittedly, she's in her 80s now and hasn't driven much for years, but the car lived for well over 150,000 miles. Commendable, I think, for a car built in the early 80s.
Living in central Ohio, I wouldn't recommend using this region as a measuring stick for restaurant and retail successes. First, this is a very high-growth area (on the order of quadrupled in populated in size since 1954). Second, the region has a huge concentration of retail and restaurant chain headquarters. Consequently, I think this area has an obsession with shopping and eating out. (We've been the "Fattest City in the U.S." several times.) The Columbus area also has, I believe, (and I have no reference to back this up) more square feet of retail space per capita than any other city in the U.S. In other words, I think Columbus is an odd-ball when it comes to business successes in the restaurant and retail space.
You guys are all forgetting one thing: Intel is involved, and they have a lot invested in Linux. There are millions of x86 boxes out there running Linux instead of Sun, IBM, HP, etc boxes running some flavor of Unix. Intel knows this, and they like it. They're not stupid...
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but aren't patents pretty particular when it comes to infractions and licensing? (...As opposed to copyrights and trademarks and such...) I seem to recall that if something is patented, you can basically change one little thing and basically be clear of the patent. Or are these patents your standard-issue, overly-broad software patents we've all come to know and love? (IANAPL - I Am Not A Patent Lawyer)
While I'm not going to comment on the specifics of this bill, one thing jumps out at me: The 60's space program did wonders for the private sector. The lofty goals of sending people to the moon made computers smaller and more powerful (ushering in the PC revolution of the late 70s and early 80s), did wonders for materials science, and introduced a myriad of other technologies we take for granted today. (To be more specific, it made these technologies affordable to the masses.) To be blunt, the U.S. is slipping technologically in the world. While we probably won't be overtaken by China or India in the next decade, it could happen in 20 or more years. Planting these seeds now could spawn another technological revolution 10-20 years from now. While a program like this probably won't accomplish a lot of "pure science", the economic impact could do wonderful things for industry, the economy, and our standard of living (they're all intertwined) down the road.
It didn't take this latest little gem to inform me of their crack-headedness...
(Okay, I know they're really just Caldera, but they're stupid enough to think the SCO name had a better reputation, and adopted it. Above-mentioned crack-headedness still applies.)
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...And they like to say the mother of the last C-130 pilot hasn't been born yet...
Thanks, but I think I'll just eat more beans...
"...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
That new AT&T logo just keeps getting better and better...
On the Vomit Comet, it's pretty-nearly zero-g (0.001-0.003 G's... you float) for about 25-26 seconds, and then there's a period (I wasn't keeping track of how long) for about 1 minute that's around 1.8 G. I would assume the ESA plane follows a pretty similar flight path. The transitions are *pretty* distinct.
(disclaimer: I rode on the Vomit Comet in August)
DRM-compatible headphones, anyone? Lord knows we wouldn't want music getting out through that analog hole...
It sounds like the bureaucracy is going to be tough to change. However, is it possible to get your group moved *inside* of IT so you can get the job done? It might require less work to do this and still let you get your job done.
It sounds silly, but if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
This is exactly why school boards and prosecutors are generally elected officials in the U.S. Prosecutors who do draconian things, and school boards who do stupid things, have this funny way of getting booted during the next election. The system *eventually* works, and until then, hopefully some judge will laugh these charges out of court.
A friend of mine was pleasantly surprised when he had a Maxtor drive, that had been submerged in flood water for 3 days, spin up and work perfectly. Every other brand of disk that was submerged was dead, but all the Maxtors survived. So if you're planning to run your hard drive under water, I suspect Maxtor is a good choice...
The company I work for did a bunch of reliability testing on SCSI disks a few years ago. They would run the drives flat out for weeks on end in big RAID arrays. Seagates and Quantums held up about the best, IBMs didn't fair so well, and Fujitsus fell somewhere in the middle. That said, I've heard terrible things about Seagate IDE drives...
Every hard drive manufacturer seems to go through spurts of good drives and bad. WDs were great for awhile (pre 1 GB days), got real unreliable (click of death), and now are pretty decent again. Same can probably said for different brands at different times. Hard drives have moving parts, and all moving parts eventually fail. RAID 1 is cheap and hard drives are huge, so save yourself some pain and just install a RAID 1 wherever you would ordinarily use a single disk.
...then they'll issue tax credits for fuel-efficient vehicles....
Sounds like a good reason to stop recording network television on my Tivo...of the few shows on the "Big Three" that I record...
While speaking volume certainly isn't the only "annoyance factor" of people talking on cell phones in public, it certainly bugs the crap out of me. So why do people feel the need to talk louder on cell phones than regular phones? The answer, I think, is the lack of what is called "sidetone".
My understanding is, way back in the early days of telephones, the old-time equivalent of user-interface experts noticed that people controlled their speaking volume better if they could here a bit of their own voice through the ear piece. If you pick up a modern land-line phone today, press one digit, and speak into the silence, you'll still hear your own voice back in your ear. Now, unplug the phone from the wall and speak into it. Notice the difference?
I can't speak for every cell phone on the market, but every one I've ever used lacks this "sidetone". You don't hear your own voice in the ear piece, so you don't have that natural indication of your speaking volume. I'm sure this is done for power-consumption purposes, but it's the main reason I really don't like to talk to people at length on my cell phone. I would guess this is why people unconsciously speak louder on cell phone than wired phones.
(As a correlary, I'd wager that the reason this seems to be more of an American problem is because we still use wired phones so extensively. In the U.S. most landline calls are still cheaper than cellular calls. [In most places local calls are flat-rate, and long distance is going that way rather quickly. In most parts of the world though, all calls are billed by the minute.] I know in much of the world the opposite is the case.)
The only problem with theory is that most corn isn't grown where that High Plains Aquifer is. (Sure, there's a bit here and there, but most of that part of the country is wheat and grazing land.) Corn does take a lot of water, so it's mostly grown where the water is: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, etc. The draining of the High Plains Aquifer may be a problem, but it doesn't affect corn production.
I wondered the same thing about the Delta 88. My grandmother drove a 1981 model up until about a year ago. (20+ years!) Now, admittedly, she's in her 80s now and hasn't driven much for years, but the car lived for well over 150,000 miles. Commendable, I think, for a car built in the early 80s.
Perhaps this goes without saying, but I'd let your wallet do the talking. If possible, find a new ISP.
(I admit, I'm spoiled by two overlapping cable providers, each offering cable modems, plus within range for DSL.)
Living in central Ohio, I wouldn't recommend using this region as a measuring stick for restaurant and retail successes. First, this is a very high-growth area (on the order of quadrupled in populated in size since 1954). Second, the region has a huge concentration of retail and restaurant chain headquarters. Consequently, I think this area has an obsession with shopping and eating out. (We've been the "Fattest City in the U.S." several times.) The Columbus area also has, I believe, (and I have no reference to back this up) more square feet of retail space per capita than any other city in the U.S.
In other words, I think Columbus is an odd-ball when it comes to business successes in the restaurant and retail space.
You guys are all forgetting one thing: Intel is involved, and they have a lot invested in Linux. There are millions of x86 boxes out there running Linux instead of Sun, IBM, HP, etc boxes running some flavor of Unix. Intel knows this, and they like it. They're not stupid...
Um, I think Red Hat *has* sued them already....
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but aren't patents pretty particular when it comes to infractions and licensing? (...As opposed to copyrights and trademarks and such...) I seem to recall that if something is patented, you can basically change one little thing and basically be clear of the patent. Or are these patents your standard-issue, overly-broad software patents we've all come to know and love? (IANAPL - I Am Not A Patent Lawyer)
Can any lawyers in the audience clarify this?
Funny, my cable company has different tiers of service....
WOW
Here's a page with information on the television signals carried by Telstar 4:
http://www.lyngsat.com/t4.shtml
While I'm not going to comment on the specifics of this bill, one thing jumps out at me:
The 60's space program did wonders for the private sector. The lofty goals of sending people to the moon made computers smaller and more powerful (ushering in the PC revolution of the late 70s and early 80s), did wonders for materials science, and introduced a myriad of other technologies we take for granted today. (To be more specific, it made these technologies affordable to the masses.)
To be blunt, the U.S. is slipping technologically in the world. While we probably won't be overtaken by China or India in the next decade, it could happen in 20 or more years. Planting these seeds now could spawn another technological revolution 10-20 years from now. While a program like this probably won't accomplish a lot of "pure science", the economic impact could do wonderful things for industry, the economy, and our standard of living (they're all intertwined) down the road.
This week, Microsoft invents the threaded news reader......
Embrace and extend, embrace and extend....
PKWare is still in business?
Long live 2.04g!
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Enough said.
It didn't take this latest little gem to inform me of their crack-headedness...
(Okay, I know they're really just Caldera, but they're stupid enough to think the SCO name had a better reputation, and adopted it. Above-mentioned crack-headedness still applies.)
Hence, provoked discussion....