... and now you're just as aggressively generalizing and attacking Europe. *sigh* Try to show some class and not yourself fall down to the levels of those you're attacking (or your impression of them).
All I can see is that they're very excited, happy and proud by the results, as they should be. These feelings are all positive ones and a sign that they're dedicated to the work they do. I seem to recall NASA engineers crying in joy when the Spirit sent back its first signals. I understand them, and I understand why ESA is very relieved by these achievements. They need all the success and publicity they can get, just like NASA, since space organizations like these are constantly fighting to not have their fundings lowered.
NASA has a broad spectrum of image data from Mars. They could use this data to present a picture of Mars as it actually appears, or they could use the data to present a picture of Mars which does not represent the actual appearance. By making the latter choice, they misinform the public.
Hmm...? But they still do it very often and explicitly tell when they do. Just look at this recently released image for example:
That one is supposed to be "true color" for example. I could pick a dozen more for you. The huge 360 degree panorama was also downloadable as a true color image from JPL's servers.
I must say I still don't get what the problem is. They release true color images occasionally, and other times they release "false color" images. Both are necessary for their own purposes, and they pretty much always mention it in the picture texts. What more *are* you expecting?
Wow, do we really need another thread about article about the infamous Mars colonization. We already discussed this in the last one. It's all about filters used. When blue-according-to-the-human-eye turns extremely red, well, that's obviously when they aren't using a filter to reflect colors as seen by the human eye best, but to enhance other wavelengths. I don't really see what the problem is, and why this of all technical stuff has to be so mysterious.
The link in the article is of course slashdotted now, so here's another one explaining how a camera on the rover works:
I'd recommend listening to eyewitnesses or books written by persons involved in wars instead of watching a movie, of all things. But sure, these are based on actual events. However, the key word here is "based".
1) a sizable amount of P2P users even know that there is addons to block IP's.
2) those blockers work. RIAA just need to sit on a public network used by thousands of others and they'll either need to block an entire general network not solely intended for RIAA usage, or they'll simply miss to block RIAA's activities
I'm a space fan. I like manned space programs too. But they are going to wreck what NASA does do well, scientific research, for a program they will also not complete.
Why? For doing other things than messing around with Hubble? Hubble has been a successful mission already, and most missions comes to and end. Wrecking NASA sounds like a slight exaggeration when you check out their currently planned (and active) missions.
I'm personally looking forward to the Kepler telescope dedicated to find earth-like planets. Finding extrasolar planets are among the most interesting exploration work you can do today to me. Also, just imagine how many more planets we could see if we were able to see earth-sized ones. IIRC, right now we can basically only see those larger-than-Jupiter sized ones, which isn't too great if you wish to see where life can possibly exist and how alone our kind of planets is in the universe.
Uh, first, I wasn't talking about the entire media streams including video, just the audio streams. I thought this was obvious from the context. I'm pretty sure there was an "Audio Layer 1" stream once, but what I'm wondering is if mp2's (as in "Audio Layer 2" for those who enjoy to keep nitpicking) were the first ones in the MPEG family to get used.
If you had it encoded as mp2 it might have sounded a bit worse and been a larger file (higher bitrate necessary), but I think it would have used less CPU.:-)
I think mine was the X-files Theme (the extended version). Actually I don't think I had another mp2. I only remember it sounded pretty bad, and was pretty large, but I could play it on my 486 without too much stuttering. They didn't require as much CPU power to decode as those godly mp3's, although the 486 still had problems keeping up in decoding it in real-time.:-) Multitasking with anything else was unthinkable.
Did mp1's exist too for a while? Maybe someone here even had some of those?:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Google -- for goatse.cx
No wait...
To give Slashdot visitors, more exactly the hacker crowd, an opportunity to hack into the restricted Okkorkokutt area.
From the Reuters article:
:-P
It is looking into four films -- "Something's Gotta Give," "The Last Samurai," "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" and "thirteen."
Now, all these movies happened to have the same release group -- OBUS.
- Master and Commander, nfo
- Something's Gotta Give, nfo
- The Last Samurai, nfo
- Thirteen (nfo)
In *all* cases, they were the first (and often only) group releasing the screener for these movies. I think I know who their source was then.
That's more good news then. :-)
:-/
:-D
Let's just hope the good news in it transmitting telemetry data doesn't mean bad news in what the telemetry data shows.
Regardless what, I'm starting to get ready for the Opportunity landing party to be held at #maestro on irc.freenode.net
Yes, but you need to think like a scientist. :-)
Anything not proven beyond doubt is just one among many theories.
... and now you're just as aggressively generalizing and attacking Europe. *sigh* Try to show some class and not yourself fall down to the levels of those you're attacking (or your impression of them).
All I can see is that they're very excited, happy and proud by the results, as they should be. These feelings are all positive ones and a sign that they're dedicated to the work they do. I seem to recall NASA engineers crying in joy when the Spirit sent back its first signals. I understand them, and I understand why ESA is very relieved by these achievements. They need all the success and publicity they can get, just like NASA, since space organizations like these are constantly fighting to not have their fundings lowered.
The half where they fling a pile of space trash into a planet?
I'm sure you're joking, but just for reference since I was too unclear in the first case anyway...
The half that has been orbiting Mars for quite a while now and has recently been capturing a lot of excellent images from orbit.
Half the mission was a success. Let's hope at least half of US rover mission will be a success too.
The hard (and expensive) part would be the transport of mined material back to Earth. Could the cost be overcome by the benefits?
Nah, but this on the other hand... Mmmm!
+1 Insightful or -1 Mad Scientist, that's the question... :-)
I also recommend /goatse|tubgirl/
or something like that...
NASA has a broad spectrum of image data from Mars.
They could use this data to present a picture of
Mars as it actually appears, or they could use the
data to present a picture of Mars which does not
represent the actual appearance. By making the
latter choice, they misinform the public.
Hmm...? But they still do it very often and explicitly tell when they do. Just look at this recently released image for example:
The rover's first exploration rock
That one is supposed to be "true color" for example. I could pick a dozen more for you. The huge 360 degree panorama was also downloadable as a true color image from JPL's servers.
I must say I still don't get what the problem is. They release true color images occasionally, and other times they release "false color" images. Both are necessary for their own purposes, and they pretty much always mention it in the picture texts. What more *are* you expecting?
Don't worry. I'm sure Mars Express will image the remains of it in true 3D as well. :-)
Nah... I think they're busy discussing why NASA is faking the Mars images to look realistic (hiding behind made up technicalities like "camera filters", etc).
Ah well, hi JPL-Justin from a #maestro visitor.
Mars Climate FAQ:
s as well.
- Why isn't the Martian sky blue like the Earth's?
That page includes images using colors-close-to-what-a-human-eye-would-see-them-a
Wow, do we really need another thread about article about the infamous Mars colonization. We already discussed this in the last one. It's all about filters used. When blue-according-to-the-human-eye turns extremely red, well, that's obviously when they aren't using a filter to reflect colors as seen by the human eye best, but to enhance other wavelengths. I don't really see what the problem is, and why this of all technical stuff has to be so mysterious.
The link in the article is of course slashdotted now, so here's another one explaining how a camera on the rover works:
The Panoramic Camera (Pancam)
Pay particular attention to the last paragraph there.
I'd recommend listening to eyewitnesses or books written by persons involved in wars instead of watching a movie, of all things. But sure, these are based on actual events. However, the key word here is "based".
because Hubble had new cameras going, which have already been built.
OK, so it's all about: NASA will be wrecked because it can't use some existing cameras? Wow...
You can't completely trust any block list of course, I can be working for RIAA for all you know.
Yeah, or RIAA can work on public networks...
Also, how do the writers of these block lists even know that they're blocking the RIAA hosts used to scan file sharers?
Those IP range blockers always seemed like a stab in the dark to me, only offering a false feeling of security.
I doubt
1) a sizable amount of P2P users even know that there is addons to block IP's.
2) those blockers work. RIAA just need to sit on a public network used by thousands of others and they'll either need to block an entire general network not solely intended for RIAA usage, or they'll simply miss to block RIAA's activities
I'm a space fan. I like manned space programs too. But they are going to wreck what NASA does do well, scientific research, for a program they will also not complete.
Why? For doing other things than messing around with Hubble? Hubble has been a successful mission already, and most missions comes to and end. Wrecking NASA sounds like a slight exaggeration when you check out their currently planned (and active) missions.
I'm personally looking forward to the Kepler telescope dedicated to find earth-like planets. Finding extrasolar planets are among the most interesting exploration work you can do today to me. Also, just imagine how many more planets we could see if we were able to see earth-sized ones. IIRC, right now we can basically only see those larger-than-Jupiter sized ones, which isn't too great if you wish to see where life can possibly exist and how alone our kind of planets is in the universe.
MPEG and MPG is mp1.
Uh, first, I wasn't talking about the entire media streams including video, just the audio streams. I thought this was obvious from the context. I'm pretty sure there was an "Audio Layer 1" stream once, but what I'm wondering is if mp2's (as in "Audio Layer 2" for those who enjoy to keep nitpicking) were the first ones in the MPEG family to get used.
So they were in common use.. Just the audio stream was not common though.
Oh yes, but I was obviously just asking about the audio streams.
If you had it encoded as mp2 it might have sounded a bit worse and been a larger file (higher bitrate necessary), but I think it would have used less CPU. :-)
What was the first mp1 or mp2 you downloaded? :-)
:-) Multitasking with anything else was unthinkable.
:-)
I think mine was the X-files Theme (the extended version). Actually I don't think I had another mp2. I only remember it sounded pretty bad, and was pretty large, but I could play it on my 486 without too much stuttering. They didn't require as much CPU power to decode as those godly mp3's, although the 486 still had problems keeping up in decoding it in real-time.
Did mp1's exist too for a while? Maybe someone here even had some of those?