compared with what they gave us at lunch heck yea. One of their big things was called a Mexican Hat which was a piece of fried boloney with a scoop of bad mashed potatoes with a slice of slightly melted american cheese on top.
I am married also. Just seems to me that if your wife is running programs that takes days to finish that a faster computer would be a very practical purchase for her. Maybe a Hackintosh mini tower running an I7 would be a better choice if she does not need the portability. Unless she is just running those programs for "fun" which is possible but seems a bit odd to me.
A they are not flying predators they are flying Ravens which are too small to be armed. B where you have cows and Rednecks you have good BBQ. That is why I go out there. C please get your paranoid delusions straight. Okeechobee supplies the water for South Florida which is the more liberal area of Florida. The Army is using the drones to spread Chemtrails that will then change the rain into a mind controlling drug to cause the voters in south florida to not vote for Obama, Romney, or Ron Paul depending if you wear your tin foil hat on the right, left or just have a full tin foil bodysuit.
Training, evaluating new systems, and storage. The US has attack helos in the US also but I do not think they are all that worried about tanks on US soil. Some drones are tasked with missions from US bases just as U2s are launched from US bases. And some are used for other functions like this one. http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/are-non-military-drones-flying-into-regulatory-quagmire/4759 This is what they are doing at one of the sites in the article. They are monitoring a lake. Trust me I have been out there and there is nothing in that area but wild pigs, Bass, fishermen, dear, cows, and an anual mud bog. All the other bases in Florida are well known bases that don't shock me at all. They are used a lot for training.
ewww I am terrified. The Army corp of engineers are using small hand launched "drones" to monitor lake Okeechobee which is frankly a way cool use of tech folks. Yea this guy in a polo shirt throwing a model airplane from a bass boat terrifies me to no ends... The other bases in Florida are all training sites. At at least one of them they also have F22s! ewww. Really people when did Slashdot become so freaking political? They are not good at it and frankly I would rather see more stories about people buiding mechs in the backyards than fear mongering crap like this.
The Dyna-Soar and Sanger didn't didn't have the boost engines that the X37 may have. A skip and boost might be good enough and even if not the X37 just needs to get back to Edwards or some other base after a skip maneuver. I didn't even say that it could do it but it would be very useful for recon if it could. Yea I cut and pasted from... The USAF site for the X37... You know the official.mil sight. Do you have any reference that no observer saw the X37s Solar panel? Or even had the capability to see a solar panel? Or to use your childish term does the USAF have unobtanium batteries that can power the X37 for a year? Or maybe do you think it carried an RTG or a Nuclear reactor which it did not. Naw i just threw in the id number as joke since all of your info you supplied was based on nothing but uninformed opinion. It is even better that you bash reference that include the official USAF site. Yes the X37 used a solar panel for http://www.space.com/13156-secret-x37b-space-plane-longer-mission.html is an image from NASA showing the X37b with a solar panel deployed. It is solar powered and has been documented as such by a number of sources.
"Only if the USAF has perfected some kind of unobtanium fueled drive system. Otherwise, no." See Dyna-Soar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-20_Dyna-Soar "No such panel of sufficient size has been noted by amateur observers - not to mention that the space a solar panel would take up is required for radiators since the skin of the drone is unsuitable." Ahh no you are wrong. http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=16639 Power: Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells with lithium-Ion batteries
So much for news for nerds... What else would should I expect from a six digit user.
" after which we charge by the hour for all support. How long should a company fix bugs without compensation in software they developed?" You have your answer. You charge by the hour for support including bug fixes. Only slaves work for free.
"From what I can tell, the worst fears of the trusted computing initiative are coming true despite any justifications from Red Hat here. Note that the ability to install your owns keys is certainly not a guaranteed right." Okay chicken little the sky is falling. Really? You can turn off the security settings in UEFI. Will you in the future? No but that is a slippery slope argument. The simple fact is that UEFI offers a layer of security that many users may welcome. As long as the end user can turn it off I am fine with it. Now on the Windows ARM platform it can not be turned off which is just evil and should be looked into as a violation of anti-trust. Of course if you really hate the idea that is fine also. What is stupid is complaining that Red Hat paid the $99 fee. That like saying that a kid should stand up to a gang of bullies instead of giving them his lunch money even if they will beat him to a pulp.
retractable solar panel. Would would expect some kind of payload bay doors which would house the sensors and a retractable solar panel. What I wonder is if the X37 has enough delta v available to dip into the atmosphere, make a high speed pass over a target, gather data and then boost back to a new orbit. One of the problems with spy sats is that everyone knows when they pass over head. If it could make large cross range manuver and then climb back to a new orbit then it would make life more difficult for nations to hide things from it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare#History Says that the first observation of a solar flare didn't take place until the 1800s. I am not all that sure about duration of such events but what if it had only been visible from the Americas? You still have the other effects but missing direct observation or no surviving data from direct observation seems very possible.
For somethings yes. You will have an instant base of apps including games. Things like Pandora, Rdio, Spotify, and so on. For somethings no. No Apache, no perl, no emacs, no vim, and so on. I till all depend on what you want to use it for.
Do you want Networking? http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9026 It is more expensive than a Pi. Wifi? Bluetooth? Well USB dongles can add that to the Pi. Want to do your development on the board without a PC? A Pi with a Keyboard and Monitor will do that. Want to play Audio? Here is a kit for you. http://www.adafruit.com/products/94 Want to develop using Python, Ruby, Basic, Smalltalk, Lua, Perl, Lisp Scheme, Erlang, or Haskell? If it is an interpreted language then it may just be a compile away for the Pi. There are all sorts of options the pi opens up. The Arduino is great because of the broad support and community. It is early days with the Pi still but the idea of using Smalltalk for an embedded device interests me a lot.
simple. A ship with a platform. Or an old drilling rig like the one they use for the SeaLaunch. Yes it would be tricker than a nice big chunk of land and possibly more expensive but it should work.
I think that the Pi was supposed to be a desktop system. It has a HDMI port and can decode 1080p video. That is a desktop device. Flash is a none starter for sure but YouTube should have worked. The Pi is really cool but I think it has real issues at this time. 1. The GPU is not being used well. From what I hear X is not yet using the GPU for acceleration. 2. Limited RAM. 3. Slow IO. SD cards are not very speedy. The first they can fix. The third might be fixable with using a USB Hard drive or a NAS. It would be great if this could run say OpenOffice and play videos well. Schools and libraries could have whole labs of them all running form an inexpensive NAS and with a print server. As a hacking tool this is great. For a general education tool it could also be really good but limited right now. As a programing education tool it could be really good, Do they have Squeak running on it yet? I know Python is up and working and they have a BBC Basic for it. The thing is that this is a developers release. It isn't soup yet. It is really cool and full of potential but Endgadet was reviewing it as a finished product which it really isn't yet. I do think it is good that it showed it's curent limitations so the developers can work on eliminating them.
You are incorrect. Let's take the fracking case for example. Judge A is a geologist. Judge B is a lawyer.
I am not talking about an oilfield worker but someone educated in the field. Without at least some significant knowledge on the subject it becomes nothing more than who is the better speaker. Think of all the idiots on slashdot that will still repeat the BS that low level EM causes health issues or that the many supposed causes of autism. Or lets take the more cynical view. A Judge that didn't understand geology might just be less accepting of positive data and and will want to take the route of "better safe than sorry". Of course that is also the cause of so many other rulings involving science and technology that drives people on Slashdot crazy. Like "People use proxies for kiddie porn" which is true but they use it for other reasons as well but we should ban them just to be sure. Or Torrents are used for piracy..... Bet you want a judge that might have actually used torrents to download an ISO then don't you?
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compared with what they gave us at lunch heck yea. One of their big things was called a Mexican Hat which was a piece of fried boloney with a scoop of bad mashed potatoes with a slice of slightly melted american cheese on top.
I am married also. Just seems to me that if your wife is running programs that takes days to finish that a faster computer would be a very practical purchase for her. Maybe a Hackintosh mini tower running an I7 would be a better choice if she does not need the portability. Unless she is just running those programs for "fun" which is possible but seems a bit odd to me.
A they are not flying predators they are flying Ravens which are too small to be armed.
B where you have cows and Rednecks you have good BBQ. That is why I go out there.
C please get your paranoid delusions straight. Okeechobee supplies the water for South Florida which is the more liberal area of Florida. The Army is using the drones to spread Chemtrails that will then change the rain into a mind controlling drug to cause the voters in south florida to not vote for Obama, Romney, or Ron Paul depending if you wear your tin foil hat on the right, left or just have a full tin foil bodysuit.
Or for environmental monitoring like this one from the list. http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/are-non-military-drones-flying-into-regulatory-quagmire/4759
Here is my guess of what they are doing http://www.nasaepscor.unh.edu/projs.shtml
Snow melt run off surveys. Those little drones would be a lot cheaper than manned aircraft and safer.
Seems as if the Army Corp of Engineers are using them for none evil tasks.
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/are-non-military-drones-flying-into-regulatory-quagmire/4759
Training, evaluating new systems, and storage. The US has attack helos in the US also but I do not think they are all that worried about tanks on US soil. Some drones are tasked with missions from US bases just as U2s are launched from US bases.
And some are used for other functions like this one.
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/are-non-military-drones-flying-into-regulatory-quagmire/4759
This is what they are doing at one of the sites in the article. They are monitoring a lake. Trust me I have been out there and there is nothing in that area but wild pigs, Bass, fishermen, dear, cows, and an anual mud bog.
All the other bases in Florida are well known bases that don't shock me at all. They are used a lot for training.
One of the sites on the map is not far from where I live. The thing is that there is no "military" base in Okeechobee Florida so I did a little research...
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/are-non-military-drones-flying-into-regulatory-quagmire/4759
ewww I am terrified. The Army corp of engineers are using small hand launched "drones" to monitor lake Okeechobee which is frankly a way cool use of tech folks. Yea this guy in a polo shirt throwing a model airplane from a bass boat terrifies me to no ends...
The other bases in Florida are all training sites. At at least one of them they also have F22s! ewww.
Really people when did Slashdot become so freaking political? They are not good at it and frankly I would rather see more stories about people buiding mechs in the backyards than fear mongering crap like this.
One wonders why you don't buy her a new MacBook Pro 15" I7. The increase in speed would be HUGE.
The Dyna-Soar and Sanger didn't didn't have the boost engines that the X37 may have. A skip and boost might be good enough and even if not the X37 just needs to get back to Edwards or some other base after a skip maneuver. I didn't even say that it could do it but it would be very useful for recon if it could. .mil sight. Do you have any reference that no observer saw the X37s Solar panel? Or even had the capability to see a solar panel?
Yea I cut and pasted from... The USAF site for the X37... You know the official
Or to use your childish term does the USAF have unobtanium batteries that can power the X37 for a year? Or maybe do you think it carried an RTG or a Nuclear reactor which it did not.
Naw i just threw in the id number as joke since all of your info you supplied was based on nothing but uninformed opinion. It is even better that you bash reference that include the official USAF site. Yes the X37 used a solar panel for http://www.space.com/13156-secret-x37b-space-plane-longer-mission.html is an image from NASA showing the X37b with a solar panel deployed. It is solar powered and has been documented as such by a number of sources.
"Only if the USAF has perfected some kind of unobtanium fueled drive system. Otherwise, no."
See Dyna-Soar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-20_Dyna-Soar
"No such panel of sufficient size has been noted by amateur observers - not to mention that the space a solar panel would take up is required for radiators since the skin of the drone is unsuitable."
Ahh no you are wrong.
http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=16639
Power: Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells with lithium-Ion batteries
So much for news for nerds... What else would should I expect from a six digit user.
" after which we charge by the hour for all support. How long should a company fix bugs without compensation in software they developed?"
You have your answer. You charge by the hour for support including bug fixes. Only slaves work for free.
"From what I can tell, the worst fears of the trusted computing initiative are coming true despite any justifications from Red Hat here. Note that the ability to install your owns keys is certainly not a guaranteed right."
Okay chicken little the sky is falling.
Really? You can turn off the security settings in UEFI. Will you in the future? No but that is a slippery slope argument. The simple fact is that UEFI offers a layer of security that many users may welcome. As long as the end user can turn it off I am fine with it.
Now on the Windows ARM platform it can not be turned off which is just evil and should be looked into as a violation of anti-trust. Of course if you really hate the idea that is fine also. What is stupid is complaining that Red Hat paid the $99 fee. That like saying that a kid should stand up to a gang of bullies instead of giving them his lunch money even if they will beat him to a pulp.
retractable solar panel. Would would expect some kind of payload bay doors which would house the sensors and a retractable solar panel.
What I wonder is if the X37 has enough delta v available to dip into the atmosphere, make a high speed pass over a target, gather data and then boost back to a new orbit.
One of the problems with spy sats is that everyone knows when they pass over head. If it could make large cross range manuver and then climb back to a new orbit then it would make life more difficult for nations to hide things from it.
I take it that blindness was a common occupational hazard for those observers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare#History
Says that the first observation of a solar flare didn't take place until the 1800s.
I am not all that sure about duration of such events but what if it had only been visible from the Americas? You still have the other effects but missing direct observation or no surviving data from direct observation seems very possible.
Where people making observations of the Sun in 775?
Which then increases the cost and requires drivers
http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?category=0 As you can see these all cost more than the Pi by it's self.
This is an option http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10585 when the new one is available
People can always use this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812196233 if their are drivers for this.
No GIPO headers which is going to be an issue for some uses.
For somethings yes. You will have an instant base of apps including games. Things like Pandora, Rdio, Spotify, and so on.
For somethings no. No Apache, no perl, no emacs, no vim, and so on.
I till all depend on what you want to use it for.
Do you want Networking?
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9026 It is more expensive than a Pi.
Wifi? Bluetooth? Well USB dongles can add that to the Pi.
Want to do your development on the board without a PC? A Pi with a Keyboard and Monitor will do that.
Want to play Audio? Here is a kit for you.
http://www.adafruit.com/products/94
Want to develop using Python, Ruby, Basic, Smalltalk, Lua, Perl, Lisp Scheme, Erlang, or Haskell? If it is an interpreted language then it may just be a compile away for the Pi.
There are all sorts of options the pi opens up.
The Arduino is great because of the broad support and community. It is early days with the Pi still but the idea of using Smalltalk for an embedded device interests me a lot.
simple. A ship with a platform. Or an old drilling rig like the one they use for the SeaLaunch.
Yes it would be tricker than a nice big chunk of land and possibly more expensive but it should work.
Maybe they can fix it for the next rev. Frankly I would just use it for a boot and then go with a NAS myself.
True but no need to put a launch complex in Texas just use the one in Florida. AKA We need the jobs since NASA got gutted.
I think that the Pi was supposed to be a desktop system. It has a HDMI port and can decode 1080p video. That is a desktop device. Flash is a none starter for sure but YouTube should have worked.
The Pi is really cool but I think it has real issues at this time.
1. The GPU is not being used well. From what I hear X is not yet using the GPU for acceleration.
2. Limited RAM.
3. Slow IO. SD cards are not very speedy.
The first they can fix. The third might be fixable with using a USB Hard drive or a NAS.
It would be great if this could run say OpenOffice and play videos well. Schools and libraries could have whole labs of them all running form an inexpensive NAS and with a print server.
As a hacking tool this is great. For a general education tool it could also be really good but limited right now. As a programing education tool it could be really good, Do they have Squeak running on it yet? I know Python is up and working and they have a BBC Basic for it.
The thing is that this is a developers release. It isn't soup yet. It is really cool and full of potential but Endgadet was reviewing it as a finished product which it really isn't yet. I do think it is good that it showed it's curent limitations so the developers can work on eliminating them.
You are incorrect. Let's take the fracking case for example.
Judge A is a geologist.
Judge B is a lawyer.
I am not talking about an oilfield worker but someone educated in the field. Without at least some significant knowledge on the subject it becomes nothing more than who is the better speaker.
Think of all the idiots on slashdot that will still repeat the BS that low level EM causes health issues or that the many supposed causes of autism.
Or lets take the more cynical view. A Judge that didn't understand geology might just be less accepting of positive data and and will want to take the route of "better safe than sorry". Of course that is also the cause of so many other rulings involving science and technology that drives people on Slashdot crazy. Like "People use proxies for kiddie porn" which is true but they use it for other reasons as well but we should ban them just to be sure. Or Torrents are used for piracy.....
Bet you want a judge that might have actually used torrents to download an ISO then don't you?
I worry about anyone that praises ignorance over knowledge. The only reason for that is allow for manipulation.