And who authorized Nominet as the TLD controller for.uk in the first place? I suspect parliament (or at least the government) had something to do with that.
"Who are we? We're the chaps who will shove our arm up Nominet's bum to the elbow and make them say what we want."
I don't think that they were quite that thick. I'd check, but my Intrepid marquee and side panel art are framed and up on the wall, thank you very much.:^)
Okay smart guy, you suggest a method to handle long lines with no spaces such that people with lorez screens don't have the right edge of the window blown out. (Scroll bar) Does HTML have any tag that is invisable, but will cause a line break if one is needed? (They should have one, but I couldn't find it.)
While those designs are interesting, I find that I can't be bothered to spend much time thinking about them in other than the abstract until someone actually makes some of the cable and uses it in an engineering project.
What we need is something that can be built and running in under 10 years before all the shuttles have been retired/lost.
Umm, only 750 metric tonnes? That sounds kind of light, actually. Regardless, the whole cable will have to be lofted into orbit before it can be installed. For that, we need working conventional space capability, and lots of it.
It's a little known fact, but the world ended several years ago. In order to keep things going, They have been recycling time from the past. That's why we're getting a shuttle disaster again, Desert Storm again, Bush in the White House again.
It's a tough job just keeping the Big Picture going, so weird effects show up in the small things. That's why television is all repeats, and why Slashdot has dups. Oh yeah, and Anonymous Coward really is this one guy.
*SPLORF*! By coincidence, I have one of Robert J. Sawyer's pens sitting in front of me right now that was left behind at the last Ad Astra SF convention. SFWRITER.COM
tiles are necessary because of the aerodynamic shape required
I believe the original shuttle designs called for more of a lifting-body shape, without such large wings. It was all the wrangling over missions, payload requirements and shrinking budget that gave us the "current" design.
I have no idea what a lifting-body shape would do for the thermal requirements, but not having to deal with wing flex and thousands of jigsaw tiles would be a good thing. (If nothing else, we probably have better materials for the job now.)
All the various new systems tried or being tried are a good thing, but they should have been looking into a 2nd generation shuttle design in case none of them were ready on time. Things always take longer. We lost Skylab because the shuttle wasn't ready on time. (And I wonder how much of the pressure on the Russians to abandon Mir was to "even the score". [Idle speculation])
As for space elevators, build a few hundred miles of nanotubes and use it in an engineering project, and then we're ready to talk. Until then, we need something that'll work within the next ten years.
I'd like to see them build a few simple bridge cables before trying a space elevator. Those would be a good proof-of-concept before tackling the much harder job. And Catch-22 is that in order to build a space elevator, we'd need fairly good conventional space capability. (Fetching and positioning the counter-weight, etc.)
"It could revolutionise optical instruments because it reflects 10 to 20 times less light than the black paint currently used to reduce unwanted reflections."
I want a place on the International Date Line so I can skip Monday mornings and go straight to Tuesday. (Two Tuesdays, of course, temporal paybacks are bitch.)
Anyone who'd been paying attention during the Slammer discusion the other day would have known that the worm described couldn't have been Slammer. Slammer was 404 byte (more or less) "dumb fire" worm. The TK one is of the class of "zombie" worms that monitor an IRC channel for further commands.
Information and links about Slammer: yes, him
Zombie type attack: him again (Skim over the XP crap to Attack Profile, unless you want a laugh.)
Too right. I've been on projects where management didn't have a clue even about the functionality never mind the UI of the project. Development consisted of adding functionality/UI, printing screen shots, passing it up, getting it back with scribbed changes, rinse-repeat. And absolutely no chance to have input on it, even though I was the one who went out and bought a book by experts on the subject. Very annoying, and makes for a crummy product.
Nor did it have the delta-V to change orbit to match with the space station.
Re:Off-scale and zero readings are still useful
on
Columbia Coverage
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Which is why you have to look carefully at the timing. If the failures were at exactly the same time, suspect a multiplexer, if not, suspect widespread damage. So they have to go over the data carefully.
Re:Off-scale and zero readings are still useful
on
Columbia Coverage
·
· Score: 1
Except that now they think that the shuttle started shedding bits over California. The tire have eventual blown, but the shuttle was already in trouble long before then.
I'd love to rewatch the whole series. Are they reshowing the whole 17? Alas, I don't believe in the cable thing, and I don't know if the Canadian Space channel is showing it.
I suspect that it stands up well over time because they avoided much that would date the show, while still getting in cute references.
There's even a reference that I only noticed recently. The two body snatchers (in the British pilot, at least) are obviously based on the infamous historical body snatchers Burke and Hare (Interesting story).
Slashdot Mirror
"Who are we? We're the chaps who will shove our arm up Nominet's bum to the elbow and make them say what we want."
I don't think that they were quite that thick. I'd check, but my Intrepid marquee and side panel art are framed and up on the wall, thank you very much. :^)
Okay smart guy, you suggest a method to handle long lines with no spaces such that people with lorez screens don't have the right edge of the window blown out. (Scroll bar) Does HTML have any tag that is invisable, but will cause a line break if one is needed? (They should have one, but I couldn't find it.)
Umm, only 750 metric tonnes? That sounds kind of light, actually. Regardless, the whole cable will have to be lofted into orbit before it can be installed. For that, we need working conventional space capability, and lots of it.
It's a tough job just keeping the Big Picture going, so weird effects show up in the small things. That's why television is all repeats, and why Slashdot has dups. Oh yeah, and Anonymous Coward really is this one guy.
Have a nice day, again!
*SPLORF*! By coincidence, I have one of Robert J. Sawyer's pens sitting in front of me right now that was left behind at the last Ad Astra SF convention. SFWRITER.COM
No, I have no idea if it'll write upside down.
I believe the original shuttle designs called for more of a lifting-body shape, without such large wings. It was all the wrangling over missions, payload requirements and shrinking budget that gave us the "current" design.
I have no idea what a lifting-body shape would do for the thermal requirements, but not having to deal with wing flex and thousands of jigsaw tiles would be a good thing. (If nothing else, we probably have better materials for the job now.)
All the various new systems tried or being tried are a good thing, but they should have been looking into a 2nd generation shuttle design in case none of them were ready on time. Things always take longer. We lost Skylab because the shuttle wasn't ready on time. (And I wonder how much of the pressure on the Russians to abandon Mir was to "even the score". [Idle speculation])
As for space elevators, build a few hundred miles of nanotubes and use it in an engineering project, and then we're ready to talk. Until then, we need something that'll work within the next ten years.
I'd like to see them build a few simple bridge cables before trying a space elevator. Those would be a good proof-of-concept before tackling the much harder job. And Catch-22 is that in order to build a space elevator, we'd need fairly good conventional space capability. (Fetching and positioning the counter-weight, etc.)
Don't do that! Due to natural selection, you're just breeding stronger shopping carts!
"It could revolutionise optical instruments because it reflects 10 to 20 times less light than the black paint currently used to reduce unwanted reflections."
I want a place on the International Date Line so I can skip Monday mornings and go straight to Tuesday. (Two Tuesdays, of course, temporal paybacks are bitch.)
Information and links about Slammer: yes, him
Zombie type attack: him again (Skim over the XP crap to Attack Profile, unless you want a laugh.)
Too right. I've been on projects where management didn't have a clue even about the functionality never mind the UI of the project. Development consisted of adding functionality/UI, printing screen shots, passing it up, getting it back with scribbed changes, rinse-repeat. And absolutely no chance to have input on it, even though I was the one who went out and bought a book by experts on the subject. Very annoying, and makes for a crummy product.
Sounds like modems with compression or even Zmodem conflicts with a large part of their patent.
Too late, Alex Chiu will probably claim prior art.
She was probably smoking something and spent 20 minutes trying to boot her apple pie.
Showing your age? I could go pull out a Byte and find that ad. Didn't it have a somewhat sooty ginger cat in the picture too?
It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!
Perhaps they'll just adopt a new slogan: "Cook Different"?
So I guess it wouldn't do your hair much good. Or is that what Hollyweird means by a "blond bombshell"? :^P
Nor did it have the delta-V to change orbit to match with the space station.
Which is why you have to look carefully at the timing. If the failures were at exactly the same time, suspect a multiplexer, if not, suspect widespread damage. So they have to go over the data carefully.
Except that now they think that the shuttle started shedding bits over California. The tire have eventual blown, but the shuttle was already in trouble long before then.
Here's a link with other pictures I wonder if it comes in black? "Exterminate! Exterminate!"
I suspect that it stands up well over time because they avoided much that would date the show, while still getting in cute references.
There's even a reference that I only noticed recently. The two body snatchers (in the British pilot, at least) are obviously based on the infamous historical body snatchers Burke and Hare (Interesting story).