Also, Elvis is dead. How can dead people have copyright? At the very least, anything by a dead person or a long since broken-up band is morally public domain
IANAL, But typically, an artist's works are owned by their estate once they die, unless the estate decides to sell the works to someone else. For example, most of Jimi Hendrix' royalties go to his stepsister Janie Hendrix, who runs his estate.
They could certainly build a table about the size of a closed PowerBook, but they couldn't put a G5 processor in it.
I think they probably could, but once switched on for 5 minutes or more I think it could probably do double duty as a small aluminum pancake griddle.;-)
I used to know someone who was a upper-level DOD official at the time, and later asked him about this. His view was that the US and USSR were basically playing economic chicken with defense spending, and that the US won by forcing the Soviets to spend themselves into the ground.
He also added that while the US succeeded in outspending the USSR, the US itself could not have maintained the defense spending rate it did without severe economic repercussions, if the arms race had lasted much longer. From his point of view, the outcome was much more in doubt than most people we led to believe, the Soviet's failed economic system notwithstanding.
Heard this one from a hardware tech I once took a class with, back in the day. My job at the time involved working with a high-end standalone rackmount graphics processor, so my company had me go to a class to learn how to maintain the hardware.
Anyway, the guy says that he got this call from a helicopter manufacturer who was using his product for a glass cockpit in their latest chopper model. It seems that under certain conditions the processor would do a hard reset, leaving the pilot without instruments. Since this was a prototype, the pilot had standard instrumentation as well as the digital on-screen ones, so there was no real danger, but still the company wanted to know why the device was failing.
To make a long story short, they ran every remote diagnostic they could without coming to a solution, so the company sent the tech to the chopper plant to have a look. The chopper guys took the guy out to the prototype, and the tech's jaw fell to the ground when he realized that the chopper guys had bolted the processor into a pod on the bottom of the helicopter - And this was a rackmount unit meant for a machine room - Not for the vibration or dust of a chopper on a runway!
After a couple of test flights they figure out the problem. Above a certain airspeed, the air pressure was high enough to physically push in the reset button on the back of the processor. After he got them to install a rackmount in the cockpit, all of their problems went away.
Yeah, I know it sounds like Snopes bait, but the guy seemed otherwise reliable, and swore it was a true story.
This question has been asked before. The answer is here, on a NASA site.. The bottom line is that at the distance from Earth to the Moon, Hubble's maximum resolution is about 100 square meters - Too coarse to see any of the Apollo artifacts.
Well, this article is pretty fascinating, and not only for its content - None of the otherspaceexploration sites I visit regularly seem to have this information - At most, they talk about Opportunity's discovery of the Razorback feature, but no discussion of analysis. Has NewScientist scooped everyone on this discovery, or was this publicized prematurely?
I don't know what the maximum speed attainable is, but in Cassini's case, what they got was a maximum speed relative to Saturn of 69,350 MPH (~111,512 KPH). This is 32 times faster than an assault rifle bullet, and 4 times faster than the shuttle, according to the spaceflight.com article on the maneuver.
Even more interesting, most of the quotes seem to be from the Fernandes family - Reuben, Karen, and their mother, Wanda. These people are possibly not Indians - And, if they are, they are probably non-traditional ones anyway, based on their choice of children's names.
Besides that, the article seem to be making the point that young people with piles of cash burning holes in their pockets are going to stay out late and have fun. The shock of it! The horror!;-)
"Well... I didn't say they were smart ideas, but hardcore has never meant prudent to me."
Exactly. If you're hacking the formalism of a language and you're a reasonable practitioner of that language, my experience is that you're doing it because of some nasty constraint in the OS, the problem, or for some political reason.
Back in the JDK1.2.2 days, I had to implement an web-based autoupdate system for a Java app that required the ability to update the JDK on the fly, and then restart the app on the new JDK from the old JDK. The reason for doing things this way was because the bosses demanded that all updates, even ones for a new JDK, involve no user interaction. Blanket constraints like "no user interaction allowed" are things that can make system design and implementation go hardcore pretty quickly under the right (or wrong) circumstances.
"Now ask if any of the residents can get a song from the iTunes store onto the iPOD.
I'll put dollars to doughnuts you won't find a single resident who can do it. Not because they aren't capable of learning how, but because they really just don't care about that kind of thing anymore."
Then again, you might be surprised. I once did a benefit ambient gig at a retirement home, and then wound up giving a seminar on my set-up after the gig, as a pile of people crowded around my gear to ask me how I got all those sounds. My impression was that this retirement home was a pretty boring place, and a guy showing up with a bunch of synths to crank out strange quiet downtempo stuff sorta made their day...
"For instance, the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States is a 90 km impact structure."
Close, but not quite. The impact was at the southern end of what is now Chesapeake Bay, but was then just sort-of offshore proto-Virginia, USA. There's an picture of the crater on the cover of this paper about it. Somewhere I read that the crater is so huge and deep that fragments of the wall exist above the surface as separate ridges in southeastern Virginia and southern Maryland, even though the crater bottom itself is several km beneath the surface.
...Or maybe not. Googling for the string "turntable prices" returns over 91,000 hits. Of course, I'm not a turntablist, so I don't know if the ones the DJs use can be cranked up to 78RPM for the really old shellac records. If your dad had some of those, finding something to play them might be a problem.
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Along with all of those links, the National Geographic Web Site has this cool picture of people looking at the before and after of the eruption.
gyg asks:
Also, Elvis is dead. How can dead people have copyright? At the very least, anything by a dead person or a long since broken-up band is morally public domain
IANAL, But typically, an artist's works are owned by their estate once they die, unless the estate decides to sell the works to someone else. For example, most of Jimi Hendrix' royalties go to his stepsister Janie Hendrix, who runs his estate.
Perfect storage indeed - And it will only take a mere 4 or 5 of these discs to hold MS Office '07 when it comes out!... ;-)
Maybe one more iteration on this? - I believe the last term should be 1/2 * (a * t^2):
y0 + v0*t - ((10 m/s^2) * t^2) / 2
Twirlip of the Mists says:
;-)
They could certainly build a table about the size of a closed PowerBook, but they couldn't put a G5 processor in it.
I think they probably could, but once switched on for 5 minutes or more I think it could probably do double duty as a small aluminum pancake griddle.
I used to know someone who was a upper-level DOD official at the time, and later asked him about this. His view was that the US and USSR were basically playing economic chicken with defense spending, and that the US won by forcing the Soviets to spend themselves into the ground.
He also added that while the US succeeded in outspending the USSR, the US itself could not have maintained the defense spending rate it did without severe economic repercussions, if the arms race had lasted much longer. From his point of view, the outcome was much more in doubt than most people we led to believe, the Soviet's failed economic system notwithstanding.
I can see it now:
N00B: "Mr Computer Tech, please help me! My Linux box is broken! I can't use my Intarweb any more!
Rakesh: "Hello, My name is 'Jim'. What was the last thing you were doing before the machine crashed?"
N00B: "Well, Jim, I ran this brand new installer for this kuel program that I got from warez-n-worms.com, and then the whole machine died!"
Rakesh/Jim: "What was the name of the installer?"
N00B: I dunno,it was rmstarfromsla.sh or something like that."
Heard this one from a hardware tech I once took a class with, back in the day. My job at the time involved working with a high-end standalone rackmount graphics processor, so my company had me go to a class to learn how to maintain the hardware.
Anyway, the guy says that he got this call from a helicopter manufacturer who was using his product for a glass cockpit in their latest chopper model. It seems that under certain conditions the processor would do a hard reset, leaving the pilot without instruments. Since this was a prototype, the pilot had standard instrumentation as well as the digital on-screen ones, so there was no real danger, but still the company wanted to know why the device was failing.
To make a long story short, they ran every remote diagnostic they could without coming to a solution, so the company sent the tech to the chopper plant to have a look. The chopper guys took the guy out to the prototype, and the tech's jaw fell to the ground when he realized that the chopper guys had bolted the processor into a pod on the bottom of the helicopter - And this was a rackmount unit meant for a machine room - Not for the vibration or dust of a chopper on a runway!
After a couple of test flights they figure out the problem. Above a certain airspeed, the air pressure was high enough to physically push in the reset button on the back of the processor. After he got them to install a rackmount in the cockpit, all of their problems went away.
Yeah, I know it sounds like Snopes bait, but the guy seemed otherwise reliable, and swore it was a true story.
spaceyhackerlady signs off as: ...laura who watched the sun rise in Mare Tranquillitatis and Mare Nectaris last night
Wow! You must be seriously jetlagged!...
"Chicks dig tablets!" --Moses, after that life-changing mountain climbing incident.
(Yeah, that'll probably buy me a "-5 Blasphemous" from somebody, but what the hell...)
This question has been asked before. The answer is here, on a NASA site.. The bottom line is that at the distance from Earth to the Moon, Hubble's maximum resolution is about 100 square meters - Too coarse to see any of the Apollo artifacts.
Well, this article is pretty fascinating, and not only for its content - None of the other space exploration sites I visit regularly seem to have this information - At most, they talk about Opportunity's discovery of the Razorback feature, but no discussion of analysis. Has NewScientist scooped everyone on this discovery, or was this publicized prematurely?
No tinfoil required, really, just an observation.
I don't know what the maximum speed attainable is, but in Cassini's case, what they got was a maximum speed relative to Saturn of 69,350 MPH (~111,512 KPH). This is 32 times faster than an assault rifle bullet, and 4 times faster than the shuttle, according to the spaceflight.com article on the maneuver.
An AC says:
They have a methane-fueled rover with them, and can get to the return vehicle if they land within 1000 miles.
Yeah, and that ought to work just fine unless the return vehicle is eaten to the ground by hordes of ravenous Martian beetles!
"...Julie? Hey, I'm real sorry about last night. My toaster went up in flames with an overdone Pop-Tart(tm), and so I never got your email..."
Even more interesting, most of the quotes seem to be from the Fernandes family - Reuben, Karen, and their mother, Wanda. These people are possibly not Indians - And, if they are, they are probably non-traditional ones anyway, based on their choice of children's names.
;-)
Besides that, the article seem to be making the point that young people with piles of cash burning holes in their pockets are going to stay out late and have fun. The shock of it! The horror!
Senator John McCain has survived 5 plane crashes, internment in a POW camp, and cancer. I'm convinced he's some kind of stealth Terminator unit.
I just read the BBC link below. I stand corrected. The source I linked (the "perp" himself!) didn't mention the wrong number.
Well, I don't know about that, but if you send text messages in the UK, you can bet that the Special Branch is reading them.
"Good-luck-to-the-crew-dept?" Not much imagination there - How 'bout the "Zephraim-Cochran-your-ride's-here-dept"?
Animats says:
"If you want to see an SR-71 up close, the Boeing Museum of Flight has one."
As does the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center. In fact, you can check it out right now via their webcam.
spankalee says:
"Well... I didn't say they were smart ideas, but hardcore has never meant prudent to me."
Exactly. If you're hacking the formalism of a language and you're a reasonable practitioner of that language, my experience is that you're doing it because of some nasty constraint in the OS, the problem, or for some political reason.
Back in the JDK1.2.2 days, I had to implement an web-based autoupdate system for a Java app that required the ability to update the JDK on the fly, and then restart the app on the new JDK from the old JDK. The reason for doing things this way was because the bosses demanded that all updates, even ones for a new JDK, involve no user interaction. Blanket constraints like "no user interaction allowed" are things that can make system design and implementation go hardcore pretty quickly under the right (or wrong) circumstances.
2names comments:
"Now ask if any of the residents can get a song from the iTunes store onto the iPOD.
I'll put dollars to doughnuts you won't find a single resident who can do it. Not because they aren't capable of learning how, but because they really just don't care about that kind of thing anymore."
Then again, you might be surprised. I once did a benefit ambient gig at a retirement home, and then wound up giving a seminar on my set-up after the gig, as a pile of people crowded around my gear to ask me how I got all those sounds. My impression was that this retirement home was a pretty boring place, and a guy showing up with a bunch of synths to crank out strange quiet downtempo stuff sorta made their day...
Phurd Phlegm says:
"For instance, the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States is a 90 km impact structure."
Close, but not quite. The impact was at the southern end of what is now Chesapeake Bay, but was then just sort-of offshore proto-Virginia, USA. There's an picture of the crater on the cover of this paper about it. Somewhere I read that the crater is so huge and deep that fragments of the wall exist above the surface as separate ridges in southeastern Virginia and southern Maryland, even though the crater bottom itself is several km beneath the surface.
...Or maybe not. Googling for the string "turntable prices" returns over 91,000 hits. Of course, I'm not a turntablist, so I don't know if the ones the DJs use can be cranked up to 78RPM for the really old shellac records. If your dad had some of those, finding something to play them might be a problem.