The numbers I listed were run times (ie. lower==better); for the stanard SPECINT/FP scores, higher==better. For my two applications, the P4 beats the athlon, but no dual p4 nor p3 could touch the price/performance of my dual athlon. I'm not really biased; I also considered a sparc before settling on the athlon.
Spec scores - more detail is available!
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It's nice to have a SPEC2001 test to look at and compare, but the SPECINT and SPECFP aren't the only results of this test. If you look at the whole reports for the P4 2GHz and the Athlon 1.4GHz, you'll see that the score is based on the 12 programs. If you're looking for performance in only one type of application (as I am), you can see how the two processors compare:
Timberwolf (300.twolf) is closest to what I do:
Athlon=703, Intel=683 --> a 3% difference - it's fairly even.
GCC (164.gcc) is something else I use a lot:
Athlon=254, Intel=197 --> a 29% difference - bigger difference
Still, these two applications show that the variantions from the composite 18% SPECINT and 56% SPECFP advantage the P4 has can be great.
Also, these pages detail the hardware setup used to reproduce these tests. We can see the Athlon was tested with 256MB and an ATA66/7200 rpm drive. The Intel was tested with the same amount of RAM and the faster ATA100/7200 rpm infamous 75GXP drive. That may explain some of the gcc differences. Also included are the compilers to build these test programs - If you're not (or your software vendor isn't) using the Intel 5.0 compiler, then these results probably aren't as applicable to you. Still, you've got to wonder why AMD is using the intel compiler... (it has K7 optimizations, but how much work is intel going to put into then?)
FYI - the difference between peak and base - from the the spec run rules:
"Peak" metrics are produced by building each benchmark in the suite with a set of optimizations individually tailored for that benchmark. The optimizations selected must adhere to the set of general benchmark optimization rules described in section 2.1 below. This may also be referred to as "aggressive compilation".
"Base" metrics are produced by building all the benchmarks in the suite with a common set of optimizations. In addition to the general benchmark optimization rules (section 2.1), base optimizations must adhere to a stricter set of rules described in section 2.2. These additional rules serve to form a "baseline" of recommended performance optimizations for a given system.
This backgrounder (4 pages, 17kb) has a basic diagram showing the change.
This briefing (18 pages, 2466kb) is a presentation, but actually has some nice detail. It has some photographs of the devices, better diagrams, and a picture of a naked man in the shower (really!).
I'll summerize:
PGA packaging (as used in many big processors) is basically a ceramic or fiberglass carrier board with pins on one side, wires in the middle (like a small PC board), and some method to directly attach to the chip. The chip is usually connected to the board with small solder balls, like BGAs, but on a smaller scale. The balls provide some flexibility and loose tolerances, but since they are bigger than the wires they connect they require a fairly large pad on the chip. This technology is a way eliminate these balls, allowing for smaller pads, freeing up more area on the die.
But you should check out the pictures -- they describe it better than I do.
They say they do, but I can't tell. The city is so small, and the borders are porous - lots of guns come in. I know two people who probably shouldn't have guns in the first place: one is afraid of getting robbed in DC so he always brings his gun when he has to go there (Bernhard Goetz syndrome, I think). He's never been caught, nor robbed for that matter, in DC.
The other is a shady tow-truck operator, stealing, I mean towing, cars from night clubs -- he gets shot at sometimes, so he shoots back. Once the police noticed - I think they confiscated his gun, and I don't know what happened after that... he wasn't immediately thrown in jail, and luckily I didn't see any more of him before his court hearing.
So, basically, no, people can bring them in pretty freely. I read a funny story about a guy who wanted to register his shotgun (legal if you register it, but then again, there's no place to hunt in DC) - the police were kindof flabbergasted and didn't know what to do!
The city of DC has a comprable number of murders per year, yet they only have 570,000 residents and 61 square miles of land. Of course, we've got one of highest rates in the country, but we're also one of the few places that (like England) outlaws handguns. The murder rate is getting better, though:
I've seen VCRs do this when a sensor fails or something feels "out of whack". For example, the takeup reel says its moving, but the unroll reel isn't moving (or is moving at the wrong speed). Rather than tearing up your tape, it just shuts down.
Funny that it's just Farscape. Are you using the same tape? same section of tape? Recording other shows of equal time on comparable positions of other same-brand,length, and speed tapes w/o problem?
It could be a tape tension problem - maybe it's a rewind/play sequence that mucks things up.
Last but not least, try a shorter tape. These are usually thicker and less prone to stretching.
Anybody know more details about this firmware upgrade? It looks like it's a SMART upgrade covering the 75GXP line -- maybe they want a little more pre-failure diagnostic data, or maybe [conspiracy theory] they know/think somethings wrong and they want to save users' data before it completely dies. [/conspiracy theory]
Damn. And my systen has a 75Gig 75GXP and two IBM 10k 18 Gig drives in RAID0 - the 75GXP was supposed to be my safe haven from any RAID failure. Luckily, I've got a 14Gig IBM laptop drive (in my laptop- it's loud!) that also has my important data, and i've got some off-site ftp storage, too, so *HOPEFULLY* I'll be ok.
It's a good thing that they stole the backups, because if they had stolen the originals you'd be obligated to destroy your copies. Now, that would suck!
The deep space versions use radioactive decay to generate the heat; the one in this article is being suggested for use with the body as a heat source. Both use the same heat-gradient-to-electricity thermoelectric effect (sorry, I couldn't find a good reference for this, but it was covered in my EE physics classes), but different ways of generating the gradient.
>How long before these things can power my handheld?
Yes! They can provide 100's of watts!
These have been used for years to power deep-space satellites such as Pioneer 10 (solar power tends to not work too well when you get away from the sun). Plus, no moving parts to fail. They use radioactive decay as their heat source.
They use plutonium-238. It half-life is 87.8 years and emits primarily alpha particles, a non-penetrating type of radiation which requires little shielding.
Here's a good page from nasa and another from the doe
Power ranges from milliwatts in 1964, to "multi-hundred-watt" in 1977 (the sole power source for voyager), to 208 Watts electrical (+4500W thermal!) in 1990, to 507 Watts (electical) in 1997.
Practically, there's that whole radiation thing, plus some costs to enrich the material, and then also disappating the thermal energy released (it operates on a gradient, so you've got to have a cold end to counter the hot end)
Ahh! I searched just plain old google, not the groups. I initially composed my message without noticing that you said it had been a family site-- When I noticed, I tried to confirm that, but couldn't. So I posted my theory hoping you had some more info; thanks.
Also, thanks for fighting the good fight with your censorware work - I've been a fan for a while!
Performance of gps phone / Privacy protection
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Using prototype handsets from Motorola and Samsung, more than 8,000 test calls were made over a period of days and under a variety of conditions including clear skies, inside moving automobiles, inside homes and large buildings, and in wooded areas. The tests were conducted on GTE Wireless' 800MHz network and on Sprint PCS' 1900MHz network. Preliminary results show SnapTrack typically located callers with an accuracy under 25 meters. In optimal conditions, callers were located within five meters. In calling environments with extreme signal blockage, such as indoors where conventional GPS will not work, SnapTrack located callers within 90 meters, well below the FCC's 125-meter accuracy requirement.
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A variety of miniature antennae also are being tested with each phone, and testing is conducted at all times of day in order to measure effects from GPS satellite constellation variation.
On their site, they have a spiel about privacy protection. Here's a quote:
Only when a subscriber dials 9-1-1 or requests a location service will the location be determined. Callers can initiate location requests the same way they control other phone functions.
Of course, who knows if this will be respected by the OEM's who implement the snaptrack technology in the phones. There's always the tin-foil-over-the-gps-antenna solution... maybe those people with the tin foil hats are on to something!
We had this problem all the time where I used to work... except it was the pizza delivery guy, not ambulances. They had our address on file, so they would never ask where we were -- at least I'd hope that 911 would ask.
Re:Why not cell triangulation?
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That's the other method people are proposing.
GPS advantages/disadvantages:
+ precise
+ works great outdoors
- extra cost, extra weight, extra bulk (another antenna), less battery life
- doesn't work indoors or in cars
Triangulation advantages/disadvantages:
+ low cost
+ phones remain the same size/weight/battery life (triangulation can be mostly done in infrastructure)
- generally less precise
- in urban environments, multipath interference and distortion caused by buildings is a problem
- in rural environments, you're lucky to get a signal from one tower, much less 3!, so it doesn't work too well.
Note that the GPS implemntation doesn't need to be a full one-- some of the processing smarts can be located in the cell towers. Unfortuantly, this doesn't buy you much as the radio section is still the major size and power draw.
1993 bombing of the World Trade Center
1995 detonation of a car bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1995 truck bomb in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen
1995 assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Aug 96: Issues his jihad (he issued a lot of stuff!)
May 97: During an interview with CNN, bin Laden reaffirms his call for a holy war against Americans
Aug 11, 97: binladen.com was registered.
It could be that infocom has some secret connection with the guy, but frankly, I'm surprised that the domain name wasn't taken earlier (of course, it could have been transfered, but considering its still at NSI, who would they have transfered it from?).
Was this site really used for his family's business? When I checked it out, it was for sale, and I didn't see any google references to the old site. My guess was that they are squatters, just like everyone else. Check out "whois alqaeda.org":
Registrant:
NAMEZERO.COM (ALQAEDA3-DOM)
51 University Ave, Suite K
LOS GATOS, CA 95030
US
Domain Name: ALQAEDA.ORG
Record last updated on 21-Dec-2000.
Record expires on 21-Dec-2001.
Record created on 21-Dec-2000.
I had the pleasure of working on some of the first test satellites (circa 1991)... These worked at LEO orbits (LEO is below the GPS satellites, which is below geostationary), so they had the advantage that they operated in a manner relatively similar to earth-bound units.
Three major differences:
- speed and altitude limitations removed (the government doesn't want these guiding missles)
- satellite reacquisition time reduced. Going fast means that you'll have to change satellites used for the calculation much more often. Back in the day of single-channel receivers, this was a major concern.
- vehicle dynamics set to assume an orbit, not some low earth speed.
Here's a great page with some info & diagrams of what's going on. It also shows how a signal can be received from a higher orbit: it listens to satellites on the other side of the earth. This is refracted through the ionosphere, and a lot of math is probably used to compensate (actually the military version of gps uses two frequencies - the ionosphere modifies each one differently and, knowing this, can be corrected better).
The RADCAL satellite took measurements, but didn't use the GPS signal for navigation. REX-II actually used a closed loop system to stabilize the entire satellite. The attitude control system is an essential part of any satellite, since it points the antennas to the ground and the solar cells at the all-important sun. Usually, there are many different types of sensors (horizon sensors, magnetometers that compare the current field with a predetermied map of the earth, star sensors, and gyros), and typically none of these sensors alone provides a complete attitude. The fusion between all these sensors, with various levels of error and fault tolereance, is a really tough job! So, a small, light gps adds a lot of good information to the equation, and can serve as the primary sensor, or as a good backup.
We used a modified trimble gps unit with 4 antennas. This unit was originally designed to determine the attitude of fighter planes, but we used modified software to work in space. One antenna read the main GPS signal, while the other three measured the phase difference between themselves and the main signal to find the difference in distance to the satellites.
Side note about the fighter jet version of the software: The differential positions of the antennas were used to calculate the attitude. I know what you're thinking: why 4 antennas to solve 3 unknowns (pitch, yaw, roll)? It turns out that wing flex (since these were spread out as far as possible, which meant 2 were on the wings) had to be taken into account. Besides that, the extra antenna provided improved coverage in case the fuselage blocked an antenna.
We used these units sucessfully in many leo satellites...
Yeah, I guess 10 sentences is a pretty good USA Today article!
No, seriously, the graphic is pretty nice. I would have thought that cutting off the nose would be dangerous, given that explosives were stored nearby and may have moved in the blast. Getting the people back is good, and I'm sure the russians had a few secrets on that sub they wouldn't want anyone else to see, but I would have thought that the nose was the most interesting part of the wreck: It would be the best evidence for the still-debated cause of the sinking.
(and the article is actually from the AP, as much as I like to knock USA Today for their "short attention span" journalism)
Re:No matter what you use daily, you still need vi
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> vi is about the only thing that can fit along with the stuff you need to boot your system with
Just a quick check to confirm that....
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 167964 Mar 16 2001/usr/bin/pico
Enforcement doesn't have to mean seizing the satellites -- it could be seizing the ground stations or the assets of the companies controlling the satellites. Worst comes to worst, just seize the satellites electronically -- something that doesn't require a lot of space know-how; just off-the-shelf components.
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So the question is, will becoming a licensed PS2 developer cost more than the compiler?
Forget the commerical pages... maybe all pages. Try going to starbucks and you can't read any page there (even the privacy policy!) without passport cookies. All I wanted to do was to check on there 802.11b implementation progress - not even buy something over the web.
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nds09813-050-- -- the prison identification number of Scarfo''s father.
Clarification:
The numbers I listed were run times (ie. lower==better); for the stanard SPECINT/FP scores, higher==better. For my two applications, the P4 beats the athlon, but no dual p4 nor p3 could touch the price/performance of my dual athlon. I'm not really biased; I also considered a sparc before settling on the athlon.
It's nice to have a SPEC2001 test to look at and compare, but the SPECINT and SPECFP aren't the only results of this test. If you look at the whole reports for the P4 2GHz and the Athlon 1.4GHz, you'll see that the score is based on the 12 programs. If you're looking for performance in only one type of application (as I am), you can see how the two processors compare:
Timberwolf (300.twolf) is closest to what I do:
Athlon=703, Intel=683 --> a 3% difference - it's fairly even.
GCC (164.gcc) is something else I use a lot:
Athlon=254, Intel=197 --> a 29% difference - bigger difference
To select what test matches what you do best, you can get more info on the individual integer tests here, and the floating point tests here
Still, these two applications show that the variantions from the composite 18% SPECINT and 56% SPECFP advantage the P4 has can be great.
Also, these pages detail the hardware setup used to reproduce these tests. We can see the Athlon was tested with 256MB and an ATA66/7200 rpm drive. The Intel was tested with the same amount of RAM and the faster ATA100/7200 rpm infamous 75GXP drive. That may explain some of the gcc differences. Also included are the compilers to build these test programs - If you're not (or your software vendor isn't) using the Intel 5.0 compiler, then these results probably aren't as applicable to you. Still, you've got to wonder why AMD is using the intel compiler... (it has K7 optimizations, but how much work is intel going to put into then?)
Lots more info on SPEC2001 here.
FYI - the difference between peak and base - from the the spec run rules:
"Peak" metrics are produced by building each benchmark in the suite with a set of optimizations individually tailored for that benchmark. The optimizations selected must adhere to the set of general benchmark optimization rules described in section 2.1 below. This may also be referred to as "aggressive compilation".
"Base" metrics are produced by building all the benchmarks in the suite with a common set of optimizations. In addition to the general benchmark optimization rules (section 2.1), base optimizations must adhere to a stricter set of rules described in section 2.2. These additional rules serve to form a "baseline" of recommended performance optimizations for a given system.
Intel has more info on this (both pdf's):
This backgrounder (4 pages, 17kb) has a basic diagram showing the change.
This briefing (18 pages, 2466kb) is a presentation, but actually has some nice detail. It has some photographs of the devices, better diagrams, and a picture of a naked man in the shower (really!).
I'll summerize:
PGA packaging (as used in many big processors) is basically a ceramic or fiberglass carrier board with pins on one side, wires in the middle (like a small PC board), and some method to directly attach to the chip. The chip is usually connected to the board with small solder balls, like BGAs, but on a smaller scale. The balls provide some flexibility and loose tolerances, but since they are bigger than the wires they connect they require a fairly large pad on the chip. This technology is a way eliminate these balls, allowing for smaller pads, freeing up more area on the die.
But you should check out the pictures -- they describe it better than I do.
They say they do, but I can't tell. The city is so small, and the borders are porous - lots of guns come in. I know two people who probably shouldn't have guns in the first place: one is afraid of getting robbed in DC so he always brings his gun when he has to go there (Bernhard Goetz syndrome, I think). He's never been caught, nor robbed for that matter, in DC.
The other is a shady tow-truck operator, stealing, I mean towing, cars from night clubs -- he gets shot at sometimes, so he shoots back. Once the police noticed - I think they confiscated his gun, and I don't know what happened after that... he wasn't immediately thrown in jail, and luckily I didn't see any more of him before his court hearing.
So, basically, no, people can bring them in pretty freely. I read a funny story about a guy who wanted to register his shotgun (legal if you register it, but then again, there's no place to hunt in DC) - the police were kindof flabbergasted and didn't know what to do!
The city of DC has a comprable number of murders per year, yet they only have 570,000 residents and 61 square miles of land. Of course, we've got one of highest rates in the country, but we're also one of the few places that (like England) outlaws handguns. The murder rate is getting better, though:
Year-end homicide totals for the last 15 years:
1998: 260 1997: 301 1996: 397 1995: 360 1994: 399
1993: 454 1992: 443 1991: 482 1990: 474 1989: 434
1988: 369 1987: 225 1986: 194 1985: 148 1984: 175
I've seen VCRs do this when a sensor fails or something feels "out of whack". For example, the takeup reel says its moving, but the unroll reel isn't moving (or is moving at the wrong speed). Rather than tearing up your tape, it just shuts down.
Funny that it's just Farscape. Are you using the same tape? same section of tape? Recording other shows of equal time on comparable positions of other same-brand,length, and speed tapes w/o problem?
It could be a tape tension problem - maybe it's a rewind/play sequence that mucks things up.
Last but not least, try a shorter tape. These are usually thicker and less prone to stretching.
has 47 ton drive-in door that operates electrically
.
Phew - I was worried for a second.
Unique, historic, functional property.
That's good, because I've good, because with this and a few more items, our rocket will be ready to move in!
note: this is meant to be funny!
Nope. This may be the most inefficient method of propulsion (The main page for this plane seems down; it may come up again)
No, it's not. It's more exciting when you race things that weren't meant to be raced or fly things that weren't meant to fly.
Anybody know more details about this firmware upgrade? It looks like it's a SMART upgrade covering the 75GXP line -- maybe they want a little more pre-failure diagnostic data, or maybe [conspiracy theory] they know/think somethings wrong and they want to save users' data before it completely dies. [/conspiracy theory]
Damn. And my systen has a 75Gig 75GXP and two IBM 10k 18 Gig drives in RAID0 - the 75GXP was supposed to be my safe haven from any RAID failure. Luckily, I've got a 14Gig IBM laptop drive (in my laptop- it's loud!) that also has my important data, and i've got some off-site ftp storage, too, so *HOPEFULLY* I'll be ok.
It's a good thing that they stole the backups, because if they had stolen the originals you'd be obligated to destroy your copies. Now, that would suck!
oops! Didn't mean to scare you too much!
The deep space versions use radioactive decay to generate the heat; the one in this article is being suggested for use with the body as a heat source. Both use the same heat-gradient-to-electricity thermoelectric effect (sorry, I couldn't find a good reference for this, but it was covered in my EE physics classes), but different ways of generating the gradient.
>How long before these things can power my handheld?
Yes! They can provide 100's of watts!
These have been used for years to power deep-space satellites such as Pioneer 10 (solar power tends to not work too well when you get away from the sun). Plus, no moving parts to fail. They use radioactive decay as their heat source.
They use plutonium-238. It half-life is 87.8 years and emits primarily alpha particles, a non-penetrating type of radiation which requires little shielding.
Here's a good page from nasa and another from the doe
Power ranges from milliwatts in 1964, to "multi-hundred-watt" in 1977 (the sole power source for voyager), to 208 Watts electrical (+4500W thermal!) in 1990, to 507 Watts (electical) in 1997.
Practically, there's that whole radiation thing, plus some costs to enrich the material, and then also disappating the thermal energy released (it operates on a gradient, so you've got to have a cold end to counter the hot end)
Ahh! I searched just plain old google, not the groups. I initially composed my message without noticing that you said it had been a family site-- When I noticed, I tried to confirm that, but couldn't. So I posted my theory hoping you had some more info; thanks.
Also, thanks for fighting the good fight with your censorware work - I've been a fan for a while!
On their site, they have a spiel about privacy protection. Here's a quote:
Of course, who knows if this will be respected by the OEM's who implement the snaptrack technology in the phones. There's always the tin-foil-over-the-gps-antenna solution... maybe those people with the tin foil hats are on to something!
We had this problem all the time where I used to work... except it was the pizza delivery guy, not ambulances. They had our address on file, so they would never ask where we were -- at least I'd hope that 911 would ask.
That's the other method people are proposing.
GPS advantages/disadvantages:
+ precise
+ works great outdoors
- extra cost, extra weight, extra bulk (another antenna), less battery life
- doesn't work indoors or in cars
Triangulation advantages/disadvantages:
+ low cost
+ phones remain the same size/weight/battery life (triangulation can be mostly done in infrastructure)
- generally less precise
- in urban environments, multipath interference and distortion caused by buildings is a problem
- in rural environments, you're lucky to get a signal from one tower, much less 3!, so it doesn't work too well.
Note that the GPS implemntation doesn't need to be a full one-- some of the processing smarts can be located in the cell towers. Unfortuantly, this doesn't buy you much as the radio section is still the major size and power draw.
let's see how that fits into the timeline:
1993 bombing of the World Trade Center
1995 detonation of a car bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1995 truck bomb in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen
1995 assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Aug 96: Issues his jihad (he issued a lot of stuff!)
May 97: During an interview with CNN, bin Laden reaffirms his call for a holy war against Americans
Aug 11, 97: binladen.com was registered.
It could be that infocom has some secret connection with the guy, but frankly, I'm surprised that the domain name wasn't taken earlier (of course, it could have been transfered, but considering its still at NSI, who would they have transfered it from?).
Was this site really used for his family's business? When I checked it out, it was for sale, and I didn't see any google references to the old site. My guess was that they are squatters, just like everyone else. Check out "whois alqaeda.org":
Registrant:
NAMEZERO.COM (ALQAEDA3-DOM)
51 University Ave, Suite K
LOS GATOS, CA 95030
US
Domain Name: ALQAEDA.ORG
Record last updated on 21-Dec-2000.
Record expires on 21-Dec-2001.
Record created on 21-Dec-2000.
I had the pleasure of working on some of the first test satellites (circa 1991)... These worked at LEO orbits (LEO is below the GPS satellites, which is below geostationary), so they had the advantage that they operated in a manner relatively similar to earth-bound units.
Three major differences:
- speed and altitude limitations removed (the government doesn't want these guiding missles)
- satellite reacquisition time reduced. Going fast means that you'll have to change satellites used for the calculation much more often. Back in the day of single-channel receivers, this was a major concern.
- vehicle dynamics set to assume an orbit, not some low earth speed.
Here's a great page with some info & diagrams of what's going on. It also shows how a signal can be received from a higher orbit: it listens to satellites on the other side of the earth. This is refracted through the ionosphere, and a lot of math is probably used to compensate (actually the military version of gps uses two frequencies - the ionosphere modifies each one differently and, knowing this, can be corrected better).
The RADCAL satellite took measurements, but didn't use the GPS signal for navigation. REX-II actually used a closed loop system to stabilize the entire satellite. The attitude control system is an essential part of any satellite, since it points the antennas to the ground and the solar cells at the all-important sun. Usually, there are many different types of sensors (horizon sensors, magnetometers that compare the current field with a predetermied map of the earth, star sensors, and gyros), and typically none of these sensors alone provides a complete attitude. The fusion between all these sensors, with various levels of error and fault tolereance, is a really tough job! So, a small, light gps adds a lot of good information to the equation, and can serve as the primary sensor, or as a good backup.
We used a modified trimble gps unit with 4 antennas. This unit was originally designed to determine the attitude of fighter planes, but we used modified software to work in space. One antenna read the main GPS signal, while the other three measured the phase difference between themselves and the main signal to find the difference in distance to the satellites.
Side note about the fighter jet version of the software: The differential positions of the antennas were used to calculate the attitude. I know what you're thinking: why 4 antennas to solve 3 unknowns (pitch, yaw, roll)? It turns out that wing flex (since these were spread out as far as possible, which meant 2 were on the wings) had to be taken into account. Besides that, the extra antenna provided improved coverage in case the fuselage blocked an antenna.
We used these units sucessfully in many leo satellites...
Yeah, I guess 10 sentences is a pretty good USA Today article!
No, seriously, the graphic is pretty nice. I would have thought that cutting off the nose would be dangerous, given that explosives were stored nearby and may have moved in the blast. Getting the people back is good, and I'm sure the russians had a few secrets on that sub they wouldn't want anyone else to see, but I would have thought that the nose was the most interesting part of the wreck: It would be the best evidence for the still-debated cause of the sinking.
(and the article is actually from the AP, as much as I like to knock USA Today for their "short attention span" journalism)
> vi is about the only thing that can fit along with the stuff you need to boot your system with
/usr/bin/pico
/bin/vi
/bin/cat
/bin/dd
Just a quick check to confirm that....
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 167964 Mar 16 2001
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 377404 Apr 2 09:24
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14716 Apr 8 13:48
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28892 Mar 14 2001
(like I said, just a quick check... please don't flame me if they need other files!)
Enforcement doesn't have to mean seizing the satellites -- it could be seizing the ground stations or the assets of the companies controlling the satellites. Worst comes to worst, just seize the satellites electronically -- something that doesn't require a lot of space know-how; just off-the-shelf components.
So the question is, will becoming a licensed PS2 developer cost more than the compiler?
Forget the commerical pages... maybe all pages. Try going to starbucks and you can't read any page there (even the privacy policy! ) without passport cookies. All I wanted to do was to check on there 802.11b implementation progress - not even buy something over the web.