okay. so now instead of just going to google and searching for something, I now have to log in to my locally executed peer-to-peer app with IMs, chat, discussion boards, and all this other useless shit?
Thanks, but no. I just wanted to search for a URL.
Does anyone remember the National Aerospace Plane project?
It was a lofty (sorry) project funded by NASA and McDonnell-Douglas to make a hypervelocity spaceplane. The project was cancelled because MDC couldnt figure out a way to reliably contain the huge amounts of hydrogen slush they were trying to carry.
See, on a car, you can afford to have a huge steel tank full of hydrogen. On an aircraft however, thrust/weight considerations preclude using any more steel than is absolutely necessary. Keeping all that fuel in a big steel bottle was out of the question, the weight would have kept NASP on the ground permanently.
Enter composites.
The decision was made to try to keep the H2 slush (yes, that's slush as in "slushee", meaning a mix of liquid and solid H2) contained in a composite honeycomb tank, for weight and expense reasons. And the tanks kept cracking. Enough that the whole project was scrapped because of the gas tank.
The performance envelope of a hydrogen tank is severely brutal. You need to contain many thousands of atmospheres of pressure, and you need to also deal with a operating temperature of a few degrees above absolute zero.
But wait, it gets better!
Now, you also have to realize that the Shuttle hs been doing this for years. How? With spherical tanks. the reason that the shuttle's main tank looks like a blimp is because the tanks are all spherical. With NASP and any other H2 burning aircraft, you will need to design the tank around the aircraft, not vice versa. This means having a tank shape and structure that is considerably weaker than a sphere, which will always be strongest for a given weight limit. You will now have seams, corners, and edges to try to make as strong as the flat sections, all the while, the hydrogen is busily trying to pop your tank into the aforementioned sphere.
Unfortunately, composites research hasn't come too terribly far from the days of 1992 when NASP finally got the project axe. The same problems remain, only far greater than they were for NASP: NASP was designed to use up most of it's hydrogen very rapidly on the way up into space, generating all it's speed in a few minutes, with just a little remaining for moving around when it re-entered the atmosphere.
When you're talking about making a jetliner burn H2, you, by the use of the word "jetliner", define its flight envelope as being subsonic, stratospheric, with a flat flight profile, not the ballistic one of NASP. That means you will need constant burn rates, and enough fuel to last 14 hours for the long haul flights (LA to Tokyo or Sydney).
With current technology, that might be an insurmountable hurdle right now. Perhaps in a decade or so, if the right people make the right discoveries in materials science it will be possible, but don't hold your breath.
Chris, who worked for the company formerly known as McDonnell-Douglas.
I have a Handspring Visor (well, I've had 2 of them). At work, I noticed that my system had the decidedly unhealthy habit of occasionally performing a hard reset the moment I set the Visor in the cradle. Driver upgrades and firmware revisions to the desktop did not alleviate the problem.
3 months into my new Visor, I had one final hard reset incident, and after that my USB port became non-functional (I also have a USB Zip drive that I use several times a day, so I can tell you precisely when it died). Hardware support happily arrived and replaced the system board in my Dell, but I was wondering what could possibly by the problem that caused the failure in the first place?
Eventually, I exchanged the Visor, and brought the new one back to work. I put it in the sync cradle. *reboot*.
At this point, I knew it wasnt the Visor, and I knew it wasnt the Dell, but it was obviously some combination of the two. As an experiment, I went a week with a grounded anti-static wriststrap wrapped around the back of the sync cradle. I made a point of touching it before I set the Visor in the cradle. Lo and behold, no more hard resets!
I decided to make this modification more or less permanent. I found the ground cable in the cradle, and the corresponding copper spring clip where it mates to the Visor. Using a trusty set of hemostats, I bent and extended it up to where it is the first bit of the cradle that touches the Visor. On the other end of the sync cable, I ran a little pigtail wire from the metal sheath of the male USB port to a screw on the back of the case.
This has the benefit of directing any static directly to the ground of the case, instead of routing the discharge through the USB controller, to *it's* ground.
Now, I dont really know whether or not this worked, because static shocks are pretty rare here in the summer (St. Louis, MO, where the humidity rarely drops beloe 75%). I'll have to wait until this winter, when the central heat kicks in, and the relative humidity in the office is about 15% before we see whether or not I've improved my sync cradle.
Git dem dare gubbamint ay-jents offa yer land before dey find yer stills!
For Christs sake, that's the single most backwater response I've ever heard. "I'll shoot them if they dont get off my land."
How about this scenario? Pay attention, pappy, mmmmkay? The BSA asks a federal court to require you to perform a software audit as part of their impending civil/criminal lawsuit against you. If you do not comply, you are held in contempt of court. Better?
Better put that shotgun down, the state of Texas doesnt like people who shoot law enforcement personnel.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
Look buddy, the *FIRST* thing you need to get through your bony skull is that it's not "X-windows". The X Consortium has declared EXPLICITLY that The X Window System is not to be referred to as "X-windows".
Call it X, or the X Window System
RTFM, for Christ's sake.
As far as the mouse goes, the problem is most likely that you are using a Micro$loth USB IntelliMouse. Why not stick with a openstandard like PS/2 or serial? Do your homework before you buy hardware, moron.
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You know what the problem is? LOOK AROUND IN _JUST_ THIS THREAD. Without the phony HTML, you would not have been able to tell my post was a joke.
The problem is real, people.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
When I was the MIS at a public k-12 school in Missouri, I installed the SETI@home client on every desktop system in the district. It was a decision widely applauded by every single member of both the science and mathematics faculty. The math dept loved watching the FFT analysis, and the science dept loved the idea of looking for ETI.
That said however, I think that this man is in a fundamentaly different situation, which I will sum up here:
#1: I registered a team that all completed work units in the District's name, so it was truly a public effort. My name was listed only as the coordinator.
#2 (this is the damning one): SETI@home doesnt have a lucrative cash purse associated with it. The prosecution is going to contend that he is stealing CPU cycles hoping to win the jackpot. This directly ties into #1, because he's doing it in his own name.
This case looks bad for him: almost as bad as those poor bastards who set up a whole LAN-full of All-Advantage clients, who meshed together the referring userids back and forth, and all ultimately led to the MIS's private mail account. He made a pretty little penny over that, and good thing too: he blew most of it on legal fees.
This bloke is fooked.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
Stallman looks like a fucking hippie. That's the problem. When Old People in Power think of the classic "pinko commie hippie", (think about it yourself for a moment), what do you think of? You think of a nasty, disheveled, grimy, bum.
Lets face it. If Stallman got a haircut and a suit, the Free Software Foundation would be much better off. --
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
Could you imagine... (Score:0)
by George Walker Bush (president@whitehouse.gov) on 14:54 07 May 2001 CDT (#31)
(User #306766 Info) http://www.whitehouse.gov/
a Napster for DNA? If we had consumer-accessible technology for DNA sequencing, everyone could trade their gene sequences and features with others! Cool!
A napster for DNA? A place where people can go to show other people what they have and trade their data?
The more I read these posts, the more I become convinced of several facts:
People dont really have any idea of the massive number of bug-fixes apple put back into BSD
People dont care about the number of said bug-fixes
People don't give a rat's ass about Apples doings in 99.99% of the Open Source movement.
People want one thing out of this whole deal.
The problem here is that the Open Source Community has decided that in return for using the BSD tree, they want Quicktime and the GUI. They care about nothing else, and Apple could give a billion lines of code, for everything else they write: It would make no difference. They would STILL be whining for quicktime, and for the new GUI.
Give me a break people. For all your pontificating and moralizing, at the core all you're doing is bitching because you cant watch the Fellowship Of The Rings trailer in linux.
--
MS Exchange does this via all the unholy things that Outlook and Exchange are (in)famous for. I'm willing to bet that MS has this copyrighted to hell and back, since no one had prior art on it at the time. I doubt you'd ever see it in an RFC
Look. It's painfully apparent that you have utterly no fucking concept of how hardware development works.
If your company has the money to hire some EEs to protoype and fabricate embedded hardware, the paltry few thousand dollars that it's going to cost you to buy a few copies of VXWorks *complete development system* are a drop in the bucket.
You cant fault Motorola for working "to the detriment of Apple".
Apple is less than a drop in the bucket of total PPC sales that Motorola makes. Do you have an automobile made after 1992? Then you own at the very least one PPC CPU already. the OBD 2 specification (on-board diagnostics v2) calls for a PPC platform, and ALL car manufacturers are using it. Automatic tranmission? there's another one. Digital dash? theres one more. Anti-lock brakes? there's at *LEAST* 2 more PPCs in that computer.
One of L. Ron Hubbards tenets for dealing with enemies (this is published literature internal to the Church) is to sure people until they lack the financial means to resist you any longer.
They have systemematically destroyed the lives of many, many opponents through years of legal maneuvering and stalling to make a simple legal suit take years and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Most average people simply lack the funds to support that kind of wrangling for long times.
Is there any news about when ICANN will start allowing websites with charachters from other language sets. I don't want to go out and register hötmäïl.com, but I would like to register something with a special character.
Look. We all know that you just want to register www.HAXØR.com or www.rØØt3d.net or something.
The Transmeta CPUs are all x86 compatible. Making a compact distro of x86 linux is a FAR easier task than porting linux to a completely new architecture.
You want to know what Linus is doing for Transmeta? I can assure you that he isnt re-naming tarballed applications to make them look cute. He's most likely re-writing kernel code to make it run natively on the Cruesoe.
Slashdot Mirror
Sheesh. They could have picked a month with more days. It's not even a leap year.
Thanks, but no. I just wanted to search for a URL.
It was a lofty (sorry) project funded by NASA and McDonnell-Douglas to make a hypervelocity spaceplane. The project was cancelled because MDC couldnt figure out a way to reliably contain the huge amounts of hydrogen slush they were trying to carry.
See, on a car, you can afford to have a huge steel tank full of hydrogen. On an aircraft however, thrust/weight considerations preclude using any more steel than is absolutely necessary. Keeping all that fuel in a big steel bottle was out of the question, the weight would have kept NASP on the ground permanently.
Enter composites.
The decision was made to try to keep the H2 slush (yes, that's slush as in "slushee", meaning a mix of liquid and solid H2) contained in a composite honeycomb tank, for weight and expense reasons. And the tanks kept cracking. Enough that the whole project was scrapped because of the gas tank.
The performance envelope of a hydrogen tank is severely brutal. You need to contain many thousands of atmospheres of pressure, and you need to also deal with a operating temperature of a few degrees above absolute zero.
But wait, it gets better!
Now, you also have to realize that the Shuttle hs been doing this for years. How? With spherical tanks. the reason that the shuttle's main tank looks like a blimp is because the tanks are all spherical. With NASP and any other H2 burning aircraft, you will need to design the tank around the aircraft, not vice versa. This means having a tank shape and structure that is considerably weaker than a sphere, which will always be strongest for a given weight limit. You will now have seams, corners, and edges to try to make as strong as the flat sections, all the while, the hydrogen is busily trying to pop your tank into the aforementioned sphere.
Unfortunately, composites research hasn't come too terribly far from the days of 1992 when NASP finally got the project axe. The same problems remain, only far greater than they were for NASP: NASP was designed to use up most of it's hydrogen very rapidly on the way up into space, generating all it's speed in a few minutes, with just a little remaining for moving around when it re-entered the atmosphere.
When you're talking about making a jetliner burn H2, you, by the use of the word "jetliner", define its flight envelope as being subsonic, stratospheric, with a flat flight profile, not the ballistic one of NASP. That means you will need constant burn rates, and enough fuel to last 14 hours for the long haul flights (LA to Tokyo or Sydney).
With current technology, that might be an insurmountable hurdle right now. Perhaps in a decade or so, if the right people make the right discoveries in materials science it will be possible, but don't hold your breath.
Chris, who worked for the company formerly known as McDonnell-Douglas.
3 months into my new Visor, I had one final hard reset incident, and after that my USB port became non-functional (I also have a USB Zip drive that I use several times a day, so I can tell you precisely when it died). Hardware support happily arrived and replaced the system board in my Dell, but I was wondering what could possibly by the problem that caused the failure in the first place?
Eventually, I exchanged the Visor, and brought the new one back to work. I put it in the sync cradle. *reboot*.
At this point, I knew it wasnt the Visor, and I knew it wasnt the Dell, but it was obviously some combination of the two. As an experiment, I went a week with a grounded anti-static wriststrap wrapped around the back of the sync cradle. I made a point of touching it before I set the Visor in the cradle. Lo and behold, no more hard resets!
I decided to make this modification more or less permanent. I found the ground cable in the cradle, and the corresponding copper spring clip where it mates to the Visor. Using a trusty set of hemostats, I bent and extended it up to where it is the first bit of the cradle that touches the Visor. On the other end of the sync cable, I ran a little pigtail wire from the metal sheath of the male USB port to a screw on the back of the case.
This has the benefit of directing any static directly to the ground of the case, instead of routing the discharge through the USB controller, to *it's* ground.
Now, I dont really know whether or not this worked, because static shocks are pretty rare here in the summer (St. Louis, MO, where the humidity rarely drops beloe 75%). I'll have to wait until this winter, when the central heat kicks in, and the relative humidity in the office is about 15% before we see whether or not I've improved my sync cradle.
Are obviously not married.
I have one arcade cabinet in my home, and I can tell you now, the wife is less than happy about it's presence.
It would sure make those 3am Taco Bell cravings much easier to deal with the next morning.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
Git dem dare gubbamint ay-jents offa yer land before dey find yer stills!
For Christs sake, that's the single most backwater response I've ever heard. "I'll shoot them if they dont get off my land."
How about this scenario? Pay attention, pappy, mmmmkay?
The BSA asks a federal court to require you to perform a software audit as part of their impending civil/criminal lawsuit against you. If you do not comply, you are held in contempt of court.
Better?
Better put that shotgun down, the state of Texas doesnt like people who shoot law enforcement personnel.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
I could tell you about it, but then I'd have to kill you.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
Just remember what my 17 year-old neighbor with the riced-out Integra told me: Yellow == Performance.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
Dont go there.
Because for every Kompany, there is a RedHat and a Caldera.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
Look buddy, the *FIRST* thing you need to get through your bony skull is that it's not "X-windows". The X Consortium has declared EXPLICITLY that The X Window System is not to be referred to as "X-windows".
Call it X, or the X Window System
RTFM, for Christ's sake.
As far as the mouse goes, the problem is most likely that you are using a Micro$loth USB IntelliMouse. Why not stick with a openstandard like PS/2 or serial? Do your homework before you buy hardware, moron.
</ZEALOT>
You know what the problem is? LOOK AROUND IN _JUST_ THIS THREAD. Without the phony HTML, you would not have been able to tell my post was a joke.
The problem is real, people.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
Stallman looks like a fucking hippie. That's the problem. When Old People in Power think of the classic "pinko commie hippie", (think about it yourself for a moment), what do you think of? You think of a nasty, disheveled, grimy, bum.
Lets face it. If Stallman got a haircut and a suit, the Free Software Foundation would be much better off.
-- You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
It's called a nightclub, jackass.
The problem here is that the Open Source Community has decided that in return for using the BSD tree, they want Quicktime and the GUI. They care about nothing else, and Apple could give a billion lines of code, for everything else they write: It would make no difference. They would STILL be whining for quicktime, and for the new GUI.
Give me a break people. For all your pontificating and moralizing, at the core all you're doing is bitching because you cant watch the Fellowship Of The Rings trailer in linux. --
MS Exchange does this via all the unholy things that Outlook and Exchange are (in)famous for. I'm willing to bet that MS has this copyrighted to hell and back, since no one had prior art on it at the time. I doubt you'd ever see it in an RFC
If your company has the money to hire some EEs to protoype and fabricate embedded hardware, the paltry few thousand dollars that it's going to cost you to buy a few copies of VXWorks *complete development system* are a drop in the bucket.
Apple is less than a drop in the bucket of total PPC sales that Motorola makes. Do you have an automobile made after 1992? Then you own at the very least one PPC CPU already. the OBD 2 specification (on-board diagnostics v2) calls for a PPC platform, and ALL car manufacturers are using it. Automatic tranmission? there's another one. Digital dash? theres one more. Anti-lock brakes? there's at *LEAST* 2 more PPCs in that computer.
Sorry, Jamie, but I agree with the poster. Your article reads almost word for word like the Register one.
One of L. Ron Hubbards tenets for dealing with enemies (this is published literature internal to the Church) is to sure people until they lack the financial means to resist you any longer.
They have systemematically destroyed the lives of many, many opponents through years of legal maneuvering and stalling to make a simple legal suit take years and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Most average people simply lack the funds to support that kind of wrangling for long times.
Look. We all know that you just want to register www.HAXØR.com or www.rØØt3d.net or something.
Give it up.
You want to know what Linus is doing for Transmeta? I can assure you that he isnt re-naming tarballed applications to make them look cute. He's most likely re-writing kernel code to make it run natively on the Cruesoe.