His house is about 5 miles from where I'm sitting (in downtown Boulder, CO)... sounds like a fun sidetrip on my way back home - I think the real-time updates will look better than the website.
That does bring up an interesting question... why did the chinese satellite survive and Genesis was in pieces.
The main reason would that the Chinese parachute worked while the Genesis failed.
The other reason would be a weight budget -- the Genesis mission travelled much further, so the energy (and cost) to propel any additional weight would be much more than for the Chinese mission. Thus, it probably wasn't overbuilt.
The third reason is the mission. The Genesis mission had to open up to expose its collectors, while the chinese mission is a bit unknown. If it was a zero gravity research, its experiments probably didn't need exposure to space. If it produced a massive amount of data that couldn't be transmitted back, the data storage is usually easy to separate from the instruments (including film & camera). Anyone know what it was supposed to do?
No, of course they didn't plan on landing it on this guy's roof. Check out the picture -- they were obviously aiming for the courtyard, and, if you ask me, they did a really good job of getting pretty close.
Boy, is that guy going to be disappointed next year when a satellite doesn't crash into his house. Bad luck all year!
not only is it a PC, it's a MLM, too
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It's a multi-level marketing scheme, too! For only $1700, you can get in on the ground floor, and get $10 every time your friends buy one. Plus you get to be called a "squad leader!"
Although the article said that this was a "pristine digitial copy", XMPCR never did that and this doesn't look like it does either. Sure, it makes digital copies, but only after decompression through their lossy proprietary codec, conversion to analog, and then lossy recompression.
The Real Hack would involve recording the original digital bit stream (unencrypted, of course) and recreating XM's codec so you can play it back exactly the same way a normal XM receiver would. Like the DeCSS cass, the DMCA would probably be brought against anyone who tried this.
so, now I expect that Lexmark will claim that third-party toner cartridges could get me in trouble with the law if they had been previously used for some nefarious purpose.
The picture of the ds8000 looked small, like something I could stick under my desk. Then I looked at the specs - it's 6 feet tall. It also has - 8 processors (power5) - 32-256 GB RAM - up to 640 disk drives - 4 port 2gig FC (anyone know where I can get a USB-to-FC adapter?) - weight: 2880 pounds (each expansion is 2400 additional) - 30,000 BTU/hr. Converted, that is 8800 watts, or 12 horsepower!
I thought of that, but then I thought the size of the screenshot should change, too. Does PearPC do resizing? It's a non-integral factor, so that's pretty sophisiticated. Otherwise, did the author do it (& why)? It just seems a bit funny, but not enough to discredit it.
I'm going to somewhat second that. It seems something funny is going on, maybe explainable, maybe not. Compare this pic with this pic (using a tabbed browser helps a lot). Why are the menu bars totally different sizes when the resolution of each picture is the same?
...sounds like a great idea! Could you send me a copy?
Just make sure you've got the backs of those credit cards scanned, too, because sometimes they ask for that info.
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... until you were dead from other causes.
Like stomach or lung cancer?;-)
No, seriously, if I ever need a pace maker, I'll ask for a nuclear one. The main attraction would be that I could justify an "ATOMIC MAN!!" tattoo on my chest, so when I'm 80 and walking on the beach, I'll amaze little kids. (plus, the ink will help cover the scars)
Mt. Asama in Japan (near Nagano) has been erupting the last few weeks. Check out this short video of a continuous stream of ash leaving the top. Some of it reached Tokyo!
I doubt it... when's the last time you saw a minipci card with a fan on it?
CPUs are big giants, and even if they can handle the processing quickly and go back to sleep, there's a lot more things going on in these things than there needs to be for simple wifi processing (floating point unit, large cache, large DRAM intefaces etc.)
The DSPs in wifi chip sets are well suited for the job. They can easily act as a first line of processing and determine if an incoming packet requires waking the main processor. The only reason intel wants the function in the processor is so that they can sell more processors.
Check out this display -- it's LCD, frag-friendly 360Hz refresh, 1/3 VGA, 24 bit color, and with a pixel size of 12 x 16.2um, it works out to 1500-2000 pixel/inch.
Of course, the trick is that this display is really small -- since it's built on a silicon wafer, expanding it to 2.2" would raise the price incredibly (defect rate isn't linear with size). So, it makes a wonderful camcorder/digital camera viewfinder, and its bigger cousins work in HD projectors, but not really practical for a phone display.
One of the coolest things about this is that it is a black and white display lit sequentially with red, gren, and blue leds. The display sets switches each pixel to the appropriate brightness of whatever color is lighting it. This means no "screen door" effect -- see an example here, so the display is much clearer.
Switching time is about 150 microseconds - good large-size monitors are still in the range of 20000 microseconds!
dbottaro isn't using an englsh version of windows, you insensitive clod! He's using the Jamaican version where the days are labeled "moonday twoesday whensday thurzday RASTADAY!! saunterday sunningday." If it were up to me, I'd like my company to adopt these names.
That's interesting, but I don't know how effective it is.
First, at altitude, focus isn't necessary because everything will be close enough to infinity (hyperfocal). So destroying an autofocus sensor won't help.
Second, my camera can withstand looking at the sun for a period of time (not much time, I'm sure). And that's a focused light source -- it'll be hard to make a laser brighter than the sun over such a large area. (easy to do if you point the laser, but hard to do if it's diffused). No real use in using a laser, though - you don't need the monochromaticity or the coherentness, so you might as well use a large xenon strobe behind an IR filter.
Lastly, won't stop any film-based camera: a cheap disposable or an Estes Cineroc.
Hope not too much taxpayer money is spent on this system!
I found this fascinating account of a hydrogen bomb accidently dropped in 1961 and still buried on a North Carolina farm. Although major portions were recovered, the uranium never was.
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His house is about 5 miles from where I'm sitting (in downtown Boulder, CO) ... sounds like a fun sidetrip on my way back home - I think the real-time updates will look better than the website.
2510 Blue Heron Circle Lafayette, CO
The main reason would that the Chinese parachute worked while the Genesis failed.
The other reason would be a weight budget -- the Genesis mission travelled much further, so the energy (and cost) to propel any additional weight would be much more than for the Chinese mission. Thus, it probably wasn't overbuilt.
The third reason is the mission. The Genesis mission had to open up to expose its collectors, while the chinese mission is a bit unknown. If it was a zero gravity research, its experiments probably didn't need exposure to space. If it produced a massive amount of data that couldn't be transmitted back, the data storage is usually easy to separate from the instruments (including film & camera). Anyone know what it was supposed to do?
No, of course they didn't plan on landing it on this guy's roof. Check out the picture -- they were obviously aiming for the courtyard, and, if you ask me, they did a really good job of getting pretty close.
Boy, is that guy going to be disappointed next year when a satellite doesn't crash into his house. Bad luck all year!
It's a multi-level marketing scheme, too!
For only $1700, you can get in on the ground floor, and get $10 every time your friends buy one. Plus you get to be called a "squad leader!"
here's more info on the balls.
I'm repeating what others are saying, but I found a good article on the relocation of the auto industry to the south. GM, Nissan, Toyota, Saturn, BMW, and Mercedes all have relatively new plants in the south. Germany sees the US as a source of cheap labor!
p.s. Phydeaux rules!!! You guys are really nice & my cat has gotten some neat stuff from there. I'd recommend to anyone in the RTP, NC area.
Although the article said that this was a "pristine digitial copy", XMPCR never did that and this doesn't look like it does either. Sure, it makes digital copies, but only after decompression through their lossy proprietary codec, conversion to analog, and then lossy recompression.
The Real Hack would involve recording the original digital bit stream (unencrypted, of course) and recreating XM's codec so you can play it back exactly the same way a normal XM receiver would. Like the DeCSS cass, the DMCA would probably be brought against anyone who tried this.
so, now I expect that Lexmark will claim that third-party toner cartridges could get me in trouble with the law if they had been previously used for some nefarious purpose.
Actually, the crystal is sapphire, and it's the non-transparent case, crown, and bracelet that are made of ceramics. quick info and much more info.
I'm holding out for a lens made of concrete or Aluminum!
The picture of the ds8000 looked small, like something I could stick under my desk. Then I looked at the specs - it's 6 feet tall. It also has
- 8 processors (power5)
- 32-256 GB RAM
- up to 640 disk drives
- 4 port 2gig FC (anyone know where I can get a USB-to-FC adapter?)
- weight: 2880 pounds (each expansion is 2400 additional)
- 30,000 BTU/hr. Converted, that is 8800 watts, or 12 horsepower!
I thought of that, but then I thought the size of the screenshot should change, too. Does PearPC do resizing? It's a non-integral factor, so that's pretty sophisiticated. Otherwise, did the author do it (& why)? It just seems a bit funny, but not enough to discredit it.
I'm going to somewhat second that. It seems something funny is going on, maybe explainable, maybe not. Compare this pic with this pic (using a tabbed browser helps a lot). Why are the menu bars totally different sizes when the resolution of each picture is the same?
...sounds like a great idea! Could you send me a copy?
Just make sure you've got the backs of those credit cards scanned, too, because sometimes they ask for that info.
... until you were dead from other causes.
;-)
Like stomach or lung cancer?
No, seriously, if I ever need a pace maker, I'll ask for a nuclear one. The main attraction would be that I could justify an "ATOMIC MAN!!" tattoo on my chest, so when I'm 80 and walking on the beach, I'll amaze little kids. (plus, the ink will help cover the scars)
Mt. Asama in Japan (near Nagano) has been erupting the last few weeks. Check out this short video of a continuous stream of ash leaving the top. Some of it reached Tokyo!
I doubt it... when's the last time you saw a minipci card with a fan on it?
CPUs are big giants, and even if they can handle the processing quickly and go back to sleep, there's a lot more things going on in these things than there needs to be for simple wifi processing (floating point unit, large cache, large DRAM intefaces etc.)
The DSPs in wifi chip sets are well suited for the job. They can easily act as a first line of processing and determine if an incoming packet requires waking the main processor. The only reason intel wants the function in the processor is so that they can sell more processors.
Check out this display -- it's LCD, frag-friendly 360Hz refresh, 1/3 VGA, 24 bit color, and with a pixel size of 12 x 16.2um, it works out to 1500-2000 pixel/inch.
Of course, the trick is that this display is really small -- since it's built on a silicon wafer, expanding it to 2.2" would raise the price incredibly (defect rate isn't linear with size). So, it makes a wonderful camcorder/digital camera viewfinder, and its bigger cousins work in HD projectors, but not really practical for a phone display.
One of the coolest things about this is that it is a black and white display lit sequentially with red, gren, and blue leds. The display sets switches each pixel to the appropriate brightness of whatever color is lighting it. This means no "screen door" effect -- see an example here, so the display is much clearer.
Switching time is about 150 microseconds - good large-size monitors are still in the range of 20000 microseconds!
dbottaro isn't using an englsh version of windows, you insensitive clod! He's using the Jamaican version where the days are labeled "moonday twoesday whensday thurzday RASTADAY!! saunterday sunningday." If it were up to me, I'd like my company to adopt these names.
That's interesting, but I don't know how effective it is.
First, at altitude, focus isn't necessary because everything will be close enough to infinity (hyperfocal). So destroying an autofocus sensor won't help.
Second, my camera can withstand looking at the sun for a period of time (not much time, I'm sure). And that's a focused light source -- it'll be hard to make a laser brighter than the sun over such a large area. (easy to do if you point the laser, but hard to do if it's diffused). No real use in using a laser, though - you don't need the monochromaticity or the coherentness, so you might as well use a large xenon strobe behind an IR filter.
Lastly, won't stop any film-based camera: a cheap disposable or an Estes Cineroc.
Hope not too much taxpayer money is spent on this system!
WEAPONS LOST/MISSING
March 10, 1956, Over the Mediterranean Sea
July 28, 1957, Over the Atlantic Ocean - somewhere between Dover Air Force Base (Delaware) and Atlantic City, New Jersey
February 5, 1958, Savannah River, Georgia (this story)
September 25, 1959, Off Whidbey Island, Washington. Since this is slashdot, I feel obligated to point out that this is about 30 miles from Redmond.
January 24, 1961, Goldsboro, North Carolina
December 5, 1965, Aboard the USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) in the Pacific Ocean (only miles from the Japanese island chain of Ryukyu)
Spring 1968, Aboard the USS Scorpion (SSN-589) in the Atlantic Ocean - 400-500 miles southwest of the Azores.
Any slashdotters have a geiger counter, a boat, and some free time?
I found this fascinating account of a hydrogen bomb accidently dropped in 1961 and still buried on a North Carolina farm. Although major portions were recovered, the uranium never was.
Well, the planet does have a massive security hole, so I wouldn't doubt it.
not an advert, just giving credit where it's due. Slashdot didn't change my submission at all (except putting it in the IT category).