Man the military-industrial complex is SO 1960's, now it's the PLM, Political, Legal, Media, complex that we worry about. All hail the Senator from Disney, and Mickey Mouse's perpetual copyright protection!
In effect Eric Schmidt has said, "Because you published information about me, Google the corporation will not talk to you?" Seems to me more likely he said "Because you published information about a Google Employee, that had no real journalistic impact in an article other than to pander to the public's voyueristic tendencies, Google and it's employees will not talk to you". There are three kinds of people in the world, people who talk about ideas, people who talk about events, and people who talk about people my respect goes to the first two. If the article attempted to show a tendency for the personal info to effect the decisions about events or ideas it would be different.
Let's wait for somebody to chime in and talk about magnetic shielding or even a Bussard Ramjet to suck up all those atoms and fuse them for propulsion before we talk about synchrotron radiation shall we.
Usually there is a law, in Michigan there is, or was a law that went something like all workers that work more than 10 hours per day or 40 hours per week get paid a minimum 1.5 the usual pay rate except purely executive, administrative, professional or clerical workers, which means most salaried are really salaried + overtime; the penalty for this misdemeanor is a $5.00 fine per occurence. Michigan is a "right to work" state which means you can work without joining a union, quit without cause or notice or be fired without cause or notice. The regulatory agency has some different regulations, and the legal system usually defers to the regulatory system.
So the reality is you have to sue your boss, for damages which will be less than your lawyer's fee only to get fired.
The hibernating crewmen would still get the radiation. There is no free lunch; either haul enough shielding or fry your people.
The other thing I find amusing is SciFi movies where ships dart back and forth between stars, 4 atoms/ cc of space and velocities of.9 C equals a hell of a lot of radiation just moving, going superluminal just means all those tachyons become dangerous instead, still no free lunch!
OK on ovarian, but men get testcular CA that women don't and BOTH get breast CA but it's more common in women, male breast CA patients are more likely to be fatal, much less early detection with men. It's been a while since I had Oncology, so anybody that's current should feel free to chime in.
My college organic chem instructor showed us that 2 inches of rain on NY city, releases the same amount of kinetic energy as a 15 KT nuclear explosion would.
She would also guess the cube roots 4 and 5 digit numbers for fun during lectures.
I had an Army field manual that shown all of the different chemical/biological protective suits in the army inventory, for handling hydrazine mono-propellant you basicly wear a nevre agent suit with a gas-mask, inside a spacesuit, pressurized with a self-contained air supply, and cover the whole ensemble with a commercial cat 1 chemical suit.
The thrusters run on HMP, hydrazine mono-propellant, that's why they let it sit an air out for a half hour after it lands before they go near it. Remember that ICBM that blew up in the silo because a wrench was dropped on the fuel tank, that's HMP for you; really nasty stuff.
something being there for the expanding gasses to be reflected from does assist no the presence of a surrounding gas reduces the velocity of the exiting gas and thrust equals mass times velocity; reducing velocity reduces thrust.
The big issue as far as I can see is that boosters need something to kick against, so if I'm standing on ice, and throw a brick which beans you in the head, I'll slide back from the kick, but if the brick misses your head I will not slide because there is no "kick" right?
No the truth is the rocket motor is what is kicked against it's the difference pressure between the combustion chamber and the exit nozzle that's thrust.
The hard part isn't really getting off the ground as much as it's get moving from rest + 1 G of gravity, launching from a balloon doesn't help much in getting to orbit because going up ten thousand feet doesn't reduce the gravity of the Earth much.
Being in orbit doesn't reduce gravity much either, objects in orbit are in free-fall, if there was no gravity in orbit spaceships wouldn't be able to get back down to the ground.
If they go through all of the effort to code a standards compliant browser they could put "best viewed with EO 7.0 free download" on MSN, Hotmail and MSDN and have the new sites broken in IE 6 and break firebirds download record in no time!
Giving more money to someone who feels used and abused only makes them feel used, abused and paid-for. You can't pay them enough when they feel used and abused, it just adds insult to injury.
What the study realy shows all those people-skills that supposedly "they" have and "we" don't, they really don't have either, else the people who hold the keys to the kingdom wouldn't feel so used and abused.
now that I'm a grad student teaching recitation to sophomores I've frequently assigned my "slow-learners" to teaching/trainning roles and giving presentations, nothing like the fear of failure to get the learning juices flowing; the key is to make the assignment a bit of work for them and rehearse them so they will not fail the first few go rounds. Amazing how some "problem-children" can bloom with a little active management.
Most often the vampires, OOPs I mean Human Resources Personnel, feel that experience and training gained in is already paid for by the company rather than an investment with a maintence cost.
Junior Programer wanted, must have 5 years experience in language only 2 years old, and at least 2 years experience in all the buzz-words the CEO saw if FORBES magazine last month. Education and experience enough to get senior level job helpfull; being able to train your offshore replacement a definant plus.
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there is no other launch vehicle on the planet capable of boosting all...
The present shuttle is an abomiation the replacement should be designed to maximize modularity, if a module is to be reused it should clearly be less expensive to maintain than to replace with new. If mission requirements need more payload, than add boast modules
Without well-known publicized domains for their 'followers' to connect to, they won't have a 'web broadcast' facility Perhaps the problem is the "well-known"ness of the site, if bad-guys were obtaining secret messages through the site, they were probably buried in the noise generated by the other users of the site
But it really wasn't information, just preliminary data, premature release would have been embarassing if the data was faulty. When the security of millions is at stake, greasing the wheels to get a exploit fixed by threatening disclosure is one thing, but this was just wrong.
Give the guys a chance to get some big glass pointed at the thing, some orbit tracking. For something that far a way, take two plates, two years apart and you're still talking about measuring with a freaken microscope!
I have a picture of my girlfriend and I holding hands on my website. This is illegal according to Saudi Arabian law; do the Saudi authorities have the right to take down my website? They probably do have the right, what they don't have is the authority to take down the website, which normally means that as long as you don't travel to Saudi Arabia you'd be all right, occasionally people have found themselves un-fortunant pawns in two countries diplomatic manuverings. Very probably the British asked the Pakastanis very nicely and were told by the Pakistani's we can't but don't care if you do it.
There an easy and old-school way to stop that. Copper is expensive to run so a way was devised to allow 3 telephones to work on 2 pairs of copper rather than 3 pairs. 1. Basicaly you take 2 audio matching transformers that are center tapped on the primary, and no center tapped on the secondary. 2. connect the outputs of each transformers secondary side to the copper pair as is normal in telephone applications. 3. to the outer taps on each tranformer's primary, inject a known and different signal signal. 4. on the center tap of the two tranformer connect a third signal generator, set to a third signal.
on the other side of the copper pairs, you have an identical arangement, and the sgnals are analysed for cross-talk. By carefully tweeking the setup for minimum cross talk, any changes become obvious. In the army before we had encryption at our level, this technique was used to provide relatively secure telephone lines, by inject a tone on the "virtual pair", if you heard tone, you stopped using the line. do that on a couple unused pairs inside your cat5 and a mouse runs down those cables, the alarms will sound, anything metal especialy like antenna or inductive pick-ups can be detected before they get clos enough to sniff any data. The biggest problem is false alarms, and getting the system set up so it doesnt go off evertime somebody slams a door.
The thing with.app application folders is they are self contained, What's as folder, no seriously, all we know about a folder is that it's an abstraction of something else and has an icon that looks like a file folders. We don't know what it is, just that it has certain properties; our.app folders needs the following properties; 1. Drop an application on it and the program installs; 2. Drag an application from the.app and drop it in the trash the program uninstalls 3. Drag an application folder from the.app and drop on the desktop and an launcher appears with an appropriate icon. 4. open the folder and it shows you all of the installed programs on the system
Think of it like Voodoo, you buy the doll, stick in the pin and the victim screams, you don't worry about what rituals and incantations went into making the doll, or how it works.
Lets say I write a program that takes a *.tgz, expands it into a temp directory; launches an installer that asks for your admin/root pasword, then installs the program; on the way it checks the package repository for updated packages that are not in the temp dir and downloads them, the temp directory can contain not only the application but all of the dependencies and install any that are needed. Make the program look like a folder called.app and the thingy we drop on it look like the application icon and That's property number 1.
If you make the trash folder smart enough that it examines what's dropped on it for application thingys, then run the uninstaller, that's property 2.
if you make the desktop smart enough to see an application thingy is being drop on it then copies the launcher from the program directory to the desktop directory, that's property number 3
if you open the.app folder, instead of showing a filesystem directory, it showed you the listing for the installed programs with icons, that's property 4, hey clicking the icon and having the folder showing all the relevant configuration files would be way cool for noobies (hint hint hint)
I can't do Object Orientated Programming because I can't get the object part, I keep making it to complicated; your doing the same thing with the folders and program instalation.
InDesign provides a far easier to use typesetting environment than Tex. The difference between a WYSIWYG program like InDesign and a typesetting program like TeX and the LaTeX environment is very similar to using an IDE and the good ol' edit/compile/run cycle of programming is the mindset of the user; wordprocessors with their WYSIWYG display stiffles my creativity, I'd rather just write first, format, revise. The WYSIWYG just distracts me from the content by presenting the format to early for me, I will admit that the MiTeX for windows has a few problems with PATHS and configuration that I have figured out yet, so I use it on my Linux machine predominately.
something akin to the Mac's.app packaging. I can almost do that now, my installer is called pacman, I just
su -c"pacman --sync gimp"
and the latest gimp is installed with all of the needed dependencies, no stain no pain. I don't have to worry about where anything is install it just works, and gobbles up anything needed. converting to a desktop icon to do it would be trivial.
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Man the military-industrial complex is SO 1960's, now it's the PLM, Political, Legal, Media, complex that we worry about. All hail the Senator from Disney, and Mickey Mouse's perpetual copyright protection!
In effect Eric Schmidt has said, "Because you published information about me, Google the corporation will not talk to you?"
Seems to me more likely he said "Because you published information about a Google Employee, that had no real journalistic impact in an article other than to pander to the public's voyueristic tendencies, Google and it's employees will not talk to you".
There are three kinds of people in the world,
people who talk about ideas,
people who talk about events, and
people who talk about people
my respect goes to the first two.
If the article attempted to show a tendency for the personal info to effect the decisions about events or ideas it would be different.
Let's wait for somebody to chime in and talk about magnetic shielding or even a Bussard Ramjet to suck up all those atoms and fuse them for propulsion before we talk about synchrotron radiation shall we.
Usually there is a law, in Michigan there is, or was a law that went something like all workers that work more than 10 hours per day or 40 hours per week get paid a minimum 1.5 the usual pay rate except purely executive, administrative, professional or clerical workers, which means most salaried are really salaried + overtime; the penalty for this misdemeanor is a $5.00 fine per occurence. Michigan is a "right to work" state which means you can work without joining a union, quit without cause or notice or be fired without cause or notice.
The regulatory agency has some different regulations, and the legal system usually defers to the regulatory system.
So the reality is you have to sue your boss, for damages which will be less than your lawyer's fee only to get fired.
The hibernating crewmen would still get the radiation. There is no free lunch; either haul enough shielding or fry your people.
.9 C equals a hell of a lot of radiation just moving, going superluminal just means all those tachyons become dangerous instead, still no free lunch!
The other thing I find amusing is SciFi movies where ships dart back and forth between stars, 4 atoms/ cc of space and velocities of
OK on ovarian, but men get testcular CA that women don't and BOTH get breast CA but it's more common in women, male breast CA patients are more likely to be fatal, much less early detection with men. It's been a while since I had Oncology, so anybody that's current should feel free to chime in.
My college organic chem instructor showed us that 2 inches of rain on NY city, releases the same amount of kinetic energy as a 15 KT nuclear explosion would.
She would also guess the cube roots 4 and 5 digit numbers for fun during lectures.
I had an Army field manual that shown all of the different chemical/biological protective suits in the army inventory, for handling hydrazine mono-propellant you basicly wear a nevre agent suit with a gas-mask, inside a spacesuit, pressurized with a self-contained air supply, and cover the whole ensemble with a commercial cat 1 chemical suit.
The thrusters run on HMP, hydrazine mono-propellant, that's why they let it sit an air out for a half hour after it lands before they go near it. Remember that ICBM that blew up in the silo because a wrench was dropped on the fuel tank, that's HMP for you; really nasty stuff.
something being there for the expanding gasses to be reflected from does assist
no the presence of a surrounding gas reduces the velocity of the exiting gas and thrust equals mass times velocity; reducing velocity reduces thrust.
The big issue as far as I can see is that boosters need something to kick against,
so if I'm standing on ice, and throw a brick which beans you in the head, I'll slide back from the kick, but if the brick misses your head I will not slide because there is no "kick" right?
No the truth is the rocket motor is what is kicked against it's the difference pressure between the combustion chamber and the exit nozzle that's thrust.
The hard part isn't really getting off the ground as much as it's get moving from rest + 1 G of gravity, launching from a balloon doesn't help much in getting to orbit because going up ten thousand feet doesn't reduce the gravity of the Earth much.
Being in orbit doesn't reduce gravity much either, objects in orbit are in free-fall, if there was no gravity in orbit spaceships wouldn't be able to get back down to the ground.
lots of sub-systems have been up and down for most of the week, maybe some upgrades going in or changing servers or something.
OMG google uses routers, the sky is falling!
(is that better?)
If they go through all of the effort to code a standards compliant browser they could put "best viewed with EO 7.0 free download" on MSN, Hotmail and MSDN and have the new sites broken in IE 6 and break firebirds download record in no time!
Giving more money to someone who feels used and abused only makes them feel used, abused and paid-for. You can't pay them enough when they feel used and abused, it just adds insult to injury.
What the study realy shows all those people-skills that supposedly "they" have and "we" don't, they really don't have either, else the people who hold the keys to the kingdom wouldn't feel so used and abused.
now that I'm a grad student teaching recitation to sophomores
I've frequently assigned my "slow-learners" to teaching/trainning roles and giving presentations, nothing like the fear of failure to get the learning juices flowing; the key is to make the assignment a bit of work for them and rehearse them so they will not fail the first few go rounds. Amazing how some "problem-children" can bloom with a little active management.
Most often the vampires, OOPs I mean Human Resources Personnel, feel that experience and training gained in is already paid for by the company rather than an investment with a maintence cost.
Junior Programer wanted, must have 5 years experience in language only 2 years old, and at least 2 years experience in all the buzz-words the CEO saw if FORBES magazine last month. Education and experience enough to get senior level job helpfull; being able to train your offshore replacement a definant plus.
there is no other launch vehicle on the planet capable of boosting all...
The present shuttle is an abomiation the replacement should be designed to maximize modularity, if a module is to be reused it should clearly be less expensive to maintain than to replace with new. If mission requirements need more payload, than add boast modules
Without well-known publicized domains for their 'followers' to connect to, they won't have a 'web broadcast' facility
Perhaps the problem is the "well-known"ness of the site, if bad-guys were obtaining secret messages through the site, they were probably buried in the noise generated by the other users of the site
But it really wasn't information, just preliminary data, premature release would have been embarassing if the data was faulty. When the security of millions is at stake, greasing the wheels to get a exploit fixed by threatening disclosure is one thing, but this was just wrong.
Give the guys a chance to get some big glass pointed at the thing, some orbit tracking. For something that far a way, take two plates, two years apart and you're still talking about measuring with a freaken microscope!
I have a picture of my girlfriend and I holding hands on my website. This is illegal according to Saudi Arabian law; do the Saudi authorities have the right to take down my website?
They probably do have the right, what they don't have is the authority to take down the website, which normally means that as long as you don't travel to Saudi Arabia you'd be all right, occasionally people have found themselves un-fortunant pawns in two countries diplomatic manuverings. Very probably the British asked the Pakastanis very nicely and were told by the Pakistani's we can't but don't care if you do it.
There an easy and old-school way to stop that. Copper is expensive to run so a way was devised to allow 3 telephones to work on 2 pairs of copper rather than 3 pairs.
1. Basicaly you take 2 audio matching transformers that are center tapped on the primary, and no center tapped on the secondary.
2. connect the outputs of each transformers secondary side to the copper pair as is normal in telephone applications.
3. to the outer taps on each tranformer's primary, inject a known and different signal signal.
4. on the center tap of the two tranformer connect a third signal generator, set to a third signal.
on the other side of the copper pairs, you have an identical arangement, and the sgnals are analysed for cross-talk. By carefully tweeking the setup for minimum cross talk, any changes become obvious. In the army before we had encryption at our level, this technique was used to provide relatively secure telephone lines, by inject a tone on the "virtual pair", if you heard tone, you stopped using the line. do that on a couple unused pairs inside your cat5 and a mouse runs down those cables, the alarms will sound, anything metal especialy like antenna or inductive pick-ups can be detected before they get clos enough to sniff any data. The biggest problem is false alarms, and getting the system set up so it doesnt go off evertime somebody slams a door.
The thing with .app application folders is they are self contained, .app folders needs the following properties; .app and drop it in the trash the program uninstalls .app and drop on the desktop and an launcher appears with an appropriate icon.
.app and the thingy we drop on it look like the application icon and That's property number 1.
.app folder, instead of showing a filesystem directory, it showed you the listing for the installed programs with icons, that's property 4, hey clicking the icon and having the folder showing all the relevant configuration files would be way cool for noobies (hint hint hint)
What's as folder, no seriously, all we know about a folder is that it's an abstraction of something else and has an icon that looks like a file folders. We don't know what it is, just that it has certain properties; our
1. Drop an application on it and the program installs;
2. Drag an application from the
3. Drag an application folder from the
4. open the folder and it shows you all of the installed programs on the system
Think of it like Voodoo, you buy the doll, stick in the pin and the victim screams, you don't worry about what rituals and incantations went into making the doll, or how it works.
Lets say I write a program that takes a *.tgz, expands it into a temp directory; launches an installer that asks for your admin/root pasword, then installs the program; on the way it checks the package repository for updated packages that are not in the temp dir and downloads them, the temp directory can contain not only the application but all of the dependencies and install any that are needed. Make the program look like a folder called
If you make the trash folder smart enough that it examines what's dropped on it for application thingys, then run the uninstaller, that's property 2.
if you make the desktop smart enough to see an application thingy is being drop on it then copies the launcher from the program directory to the desktop directory, that's property number 3
if you open the
I can't do Object Orientated Programming because I can't get the object part, I keep making it to complicated; your doing the same thing with the folders and program instalation.
InDesign provides a far easier to use typesetting environment than Tex.
The difference between a WYSIWYG program like InDesign and a typesetting program like TeX and the LaTeX environment is very similar to using an IDE and the good ol' edit/compile/run cycle of programming is the mindset of the user; wordprocessors with their WYSIWYG display stiffles my creativity, I'd rather just write first, format, revise. The WYSIWYG just distracts me from the content by presenting the format to early for me, I will admit that the MiTeX for windows has a few problems with PATHS and configuration that I have figured out yet, so I use it on my Linux machine predominately.
I can almost do that now, my installer is called pacman, I just and the latest gimp is installed with all of the needed dependencies, no stain no pain. I don't have to worry about where anything is install it just works, and gobbles up anything needed. converting to a desktop icon to do it would be trivial.