The satellite is the easy part. The booster is the tricky bit.
AMSAT groups have been putting satellites in space for years now from the tiny and simple to the complex and large (Oscar Phase IIId). It's like the difference between building aircraft and avionics. Boosters and satellites are two completely different animals.
This probe will be on a commercial booster in a series with a well proven track record.
Francium (#88) was discovered in 1939. It has a very minute half-life, and is nearly (let's not start a flame war here...) useless. As the physicists kept digging for larger elements, they got Americium (#95) in 1944. It's used in ionizing smoke detectors, one of the most sensitive types.
If we had stopped looking after Francium, the ionizing smoke detector would never had been built.
What would be really cool, is if the car had 802.11b on it, not for the car to be a host, but so that my car syncs with my PC whenever I'm parked in range.
Have it work sorta like Palm's HotSync, just leave mp3s for the car in some directory, and the car sucks them up when in range.
It could get email, maps, weather, etc. I could go on, and on...
If a company wanted to use junk email, they would send junk email for nearly free.
I only see the headers of my virtual junk mail, real junk mail sits in my trash can for a while, while I stare at it. The time of my staring at the flyer is worth much more to a company than the quarter second of visibility in my inbox, and that's why they pay for real mail.
Also when the postal service's IP hits the blacklist, it's all over.
This isn't completely what you want, but it is a very good reference site for mathematics, from the fine people who brought us Mathematica. And it's free, and as we all know, free is good.
These things usually don't come from mass projects, rather just some guy, releasing working code in the middle of the night, so the 'hoard' effect of a cash prize won't hurt.
Just look at the X-Box emulator;-)
Seriously, though, a cash prize will just serve to encourage things like the emulator fiasco.
Why doesn't Slashdot cache pages, images and linked pages (and their images) 1 level deep before posting a link?
I know this isn't really quite on (this) topic, and it has been said before, but the/. effect is getting stronger than ever. I just hope none of these sites pay for bandwidth.
This/.ing fix could be easily done, just put the code into slash, do it on the fly.
Cel animation has been around for a long, long, time. Both it and movies are still popular.
The motion picture has not replaced the stage. The television has not replaced film. The record has not replaced concerts.
In fact, I don't know of any new artistic form that has replaced another. Computer generated characters are different from live actors, and always will be.
I run the network for a camp, as well as for the 22 node lab we use.
12 had Gain installed, 16 had Gator. Another had something that changed the default 404 page to a page full of links to porn sites. I don't even know what that one was, but I can tell you that after embedding itself into IE, it was a real pain to remove, not to mention having to explain to a 7 year old camper why [s]he cannot click on a link to a "bad" site.
Any program that operates when it not called upon to do should is, and should be treated as, malware or a virus. If you want an ad-supported app, save 7 year olds and their counselors everywhere the hassle of continuing your "ad based payment" after your app had been terminated.
Speaking of Open Source, does this mean that I can start DoSing anyone sharing a copy of Debian which may include a package that I own the copyright to, perhaps the Debian guys themselves?
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Didn't ReplayTV keep track of what we watched to "make our lives easier"?
Now, it's being used to spy on us. "More personal information" is something that we should have to remember. Would you tell some random guy on the street your SSN, so he could keep track of it for you? I don't think so. Closed source software is much like some random guy on the street, you never can know what it's gonna do with the info you give it.
I remember reading something where a military suspect pulled the disc out from the center hole in a floppy, and cut it into some 70 chunks with a pair of pinking shears. They put the thing back together bu spraying aerosolized iron filings onto the pieces, and puting the chunks together with a microscope, where the tracks became visible. They recovered enough data to convict the guy.
This would be really easy if there were no tracks, such as in a reel to reel tape.
So, if I make a computer design a part using what it is supposed to do (push levers, bend things, twist things, etc.), under a set of parameters (size, material, etc.) and feed that into a CNC mill and out came a patented part, would that be okay?
Sure Boeing lost because of a really, really stupid looking aircraft.
Look at the B-2. I don't think anyone could say (with any amount of seriousness) that it is ugly. The plane serves its purpose even while sitting on the ground. We only have 19, not really enough for a full-scale war, yet they still work as a deterent. You don't have to know what it is to be scared of it, if you know it's gonna come after you.
Being 'scared' of military technology is all part of the game. Boeing could not produce a scary looking aircraft, so they lost.
This means that the Brits are more, um... willing to electronically spy, and if I remember right, Echelon works by the UK spying on us and vice versa. You can bet that whatever they are looking at, much time is spent spying on US domestic affairs.
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The satellite is the easy part. The booster is the tricky bit.
AMSAT groups have been putting satellites in space for years now from the tiny and simple to the complex and large (Oscar Phase IIId). It's like the difference between building aircraft and avionics. Boosters and satellites are two completely different animals.
This probe will be on a commercial booster in a series with a well proven track record.
Well, in that case...
Let the slashdotting begin!
Francium (#88) was discovered in 1939. It has a very minute half-life, and is nearly (let's not start a flame war here...) useless. As the physicists kept digging for larger elements, they got Americium (#95) in 1944. It's used in ionizing smoke detectors, one of the most sensitive types.
If we had stopped looking after Francium, the ionizing smoke detector would never had been built.
...as Lindows machines hit Wal-Mart. ;-)
No really, If Mac's were $300 you'd see those in lower economic classes starting to buy them too.
What would be really cool, is if the car had 802.11b on it, not for the car to be a host, but so that my car syncs with my PC whenever I'm parked in range.
Have it work sorta like Palm's HotSync, just leave mp3s for the car in some directory, and the car sucks them up when in range.
It could get email, maps, weather, etc. I could go on, and on...
Might not be that bad...
These things would be run from overseas, and that would make tapping and logging for the purpose of MPAA's war on Terr^H^H^H^Hfile sharing.
Wouldn't it?
If a company wanted to use junk email, they would send junk email for nearly free.
I only see the headers of my virtual junk mail, real junk mail sits in my trash can for a while, while I stare at it. The time of my staring at the flyer is worth much more to a company than the quarter second of visibility in my inbox, and that's why they pay for real mail.
Also when the postal service's IP hits the blacklist, it's all over.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
This isn't completely what you want, but it is a very good reference site for mathematics, from the fine people who brought us Mathematica. And it's free, and as we all know, free is good.
These things usually don't come from mass projects, rather just some guy, releasing working code in the middle of the night, so the 'hoard' effect of a cash prize won't hurt.
;-)
Just look at the X-Box emulator
Seriously, though, a cash prize will just serve to encourage things like the emulator fiasco.
Spielburg was paid very well for these placements.
The movie cost $100mil, $25mil was earned through product placement.
This sort of thing is not new, though. 2001 had many product placements, i.e. Pan Am spacecraft, Westinghouse, etc.
I feel it kinds adds to the movie. It gives it more of a connection with the world we live in.
Why doesn't Slashdot cache pages, images and linked pages (and their images) 1 level deep before posting a link?
/. effect is getting stronger than ever. I just hope none of these sites pay for bandwidth.
/.ing fix could be easily done, just put the code into slash, do it on the fly.
I know this isn't really quite on (this) topic, and it has been said before, but the
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Cel animation has been around for a long, long, time. Both it and movies are still popular.
The motion picture has not replaced the stage.
The television has not replaced film.
The record has not replaced concerts.
In fact, I don't know of any new artistic form that has replaced another. Computer generated characters are different from live actors, and always will be.
I run the network for a camp, as well as for the 22 node lab we use.
12 had Gain installed, 16 had Gator. Another had something that changed the default 404 page to a page full of links to porn sites. I don't even know what that one was, but I can tell you that after embedding itself into IE, it was a real pain to remove, not to mention having to explain to a 7 year old camper why [s]he cannot click on a link to a "bad" site.
Any program that operates when it not called upon to do should is, and should be treated as, malware or a virus. If you want an ad-supported app, save 7 year olds and their counselors everywhere the hassle of continuing your "ad based payment" after your app had been terminated.
...but if I am, surely others are too. Isn't the "Devil" logo FreeBSD's?
Speaking of Open Source, does this mean that I can start DoSing anyone sharing a copy of Debian which may include a package that I own the copyright to, perhaps the Debian guys themselves?
...who helps small businesses upgrade to Linux.
Notice he said "upgrade"...
Didn't ReplayTV keep track of what we watched to "make our lives easier"?
Now, it's being used to spy on us. "More personal information" is something that we should have to remember. Would you tell some random guy on the street your SSN, so he could keep track of it for you? I don't think so. Closed source software is much like some random guy on the street, you never can know what it's gonna do with the info you give it.
It's not a natural process if the process is put in motion by an engineer to build a patented part.
The cutting doesn't work.
I remember reading something where a military suspect pulled the disc out from the center hole in a floppy, and cut it into some 70 chunks with a pair of pinking shears. They put the thing back together bu spraying aerosolized iron filings onto the pieces, and puting the chunks together with a microscope, where the tracks became visible. They recovered enough data to convict the guy.
This would be really easy if there were no tracks, such as in a reel to reel tape.
So, if I make a computer design a part using what it is supposed to do (push levers, bend things, twist things, etc.), under a set of parameters (size, material, etc.) and feed that into a CNC mill and out came a patented part, would that be okay?
I think not...
AllTheWeb has summed all their formats to get 2.1 billion.
If you add Google's 700mil USENET articles, 300mil images, etc, Google has >3,000,000,000 documents to search. That kills ATW.
Sure Boeing lost because of a really, really stupid looking aircraft.
Look at the B-2. I don't think anyone could say (with any amount of seriousness) that it is ugly. The plane serves its purpose even while sitting on the ground. We only have 19, not really enough for a full-scale war, yet they still work as a deterent. You don't have to know what it is to be scared of it, if you know it's gonna come after you.
Being 'scared' of military technology is all part of the game. Boeing could not produce a scary looking aircraft, so they lost.
One word: Echelon.
This means that the Brits are more, um... willing to electronically spy, and if I remember right, Echelon works by the UK spying on us and vice versa. You can bet that whatever they are looking at, much time is spent spying on US domestic affairs.
Remember the fiasco we had a while back about "What's your shell prompt" and people posted (and used) malware prompts?
/.ers, because Slashdot itself has been a method of spread for malware in the past.
Linux shell malware isn't a surprise for us