I believe the Huygens probe is financed and constructed by ESA (European Space Agency), it "only" got a ride to saturn with the NASA satelite "Cassini".
Here is the official ESA countdown! At the moment, it's only 4 hours left!:) However, after landing, it will take another 5 hours before the data starts coming in, and we know wether it was a success or a failure.
In the application, you can also fastforward and see what Cassini does in the coming years.
Sweden has a lower population density than USA (20 vs 30 per km^2) and at the same time the broadband penetration is higher. I would say that the US is lagging behind.
Here is more information on international broadband penetration:
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0402/
Many users have 10/10 or better via fiber in the cities. Although on the whole, most broadband is delivered by ADSL and cable, with all operators offering a maximum speed of 8/1.
I guess one explanation is that the Swedish government has invested a lot of money on broadband/fiber/IT-infrastructure projects which has resulted in "city-networks" in all cities. However, these investments has only cost a fraction of what the military cost, while providing lots of more benefits for us, so it was definitely not a waste.:)
There are lots of great Linux games!
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This is *the* source for great Linux games (both free and non-free, mostly free though). Most games on the first page of this list is really good actually.:)
Because SUN bought a SCO license, hence funded SCO in their anti-linux crusade. Also I have heard SUN employees bash Linux for its "uncertain IP" and "risk of litigation", while promoting SUN products such as their Linux distribution...
Yes, you are right, one cannot approach clients arrogantly. However, I quite often do find the corporate world to be a quite different compared to the "normal" (in my POV) "geek" world.:) (even if I dont say that to my clients)
Just the very common misconception that "more expensive" == "better" ( => free (as in beer) software must be horribly bad, etc), is quite different from my philosophy...I guess I just have to get used to it.:)
I don't think FDA recommends Microsoft Office or any other specific software in this case, but in my experience, companies seem to read "Microsoft Office" wherever it says "documents must be available for a long period of time".
I recently worked as a consultant for a biotech company. They where developing health care drugs for the American market, and one of all FDA regulations they had to follow, was that all documents regarding some substance or drug must be available for at least 10 years time, or more.
This was a big reason they did NOT adopt open office, because in their corporate world (that is the opposite of real life) Microsoft Office was the guarantee that their documents would be accessible in 10 years, or more. I disagreed and did some arguing with them for the importance of open formats, but in the end they choosed Microsoft Office. Because; In the corporate world, Microsoft is king.
I believe they made the wrong choice and (IMO) the correct way of following FDA regulations, etc, is to use open formats for data/documents/etc. However this has not yet been realized by the industry (or FDA, I believe).
However, when the industry DO realize, all open formats will be at a very nice spot compared to Microsoft Office/closed document formats.
In some countries, like sweden, bittorrent trackers are legal. Since they do not spread copyrighted material but just link to where one can find copyrighted material.
Also there is a court ruling from the BBS-time that says that the BBS administrators is NOT responsible for what the users do on the BBS (such as trading warez). It is argued that the same reasoning can be done for a torrent tracker. However if there are copyrighted material transferred without the copyrightholders approval, people that USE the tracker is still doing something illegal.
The industry has tried to remove torrents from piratebay.org, which is the biggest torrent tracker in sweden, with limited success. (they have even gotten calls from Microsoft when Halo 2 was up for downloading):)
For those that are wondering what "gnuheter" means; it is a composition of the english word "GNU" and Swedish word "nyheter" (for news), so in English I guess it would be something like "gnuws". uhm..:)
China perhaps calls themselves communists (I don't know if they actually do that? Soviet did not afaik), however that does not make china a communist country.
Please use the term "totalitarian nation/state/country", as that is more appropriate.
I looked at the site, but saw no mentions of source code / "IP" sale. Does anyone know if it is possible to buy some of their IP, and in that case, maybe the open source community could do a blender for some nice classics?:)
Since they are indeed classics, they should not be as expensive as blender, I guess. What do you think?
The masscentrum of the elevator must lie in the geosynchronous orbit. Does the moon have a geosynchronous orbit around itself (due to the slow rotation, 1 rotation in 20-something days)?
I guess earth lies in its geosynchronous orbit, since we always see the same side of the moon, but an elevator from earth to the moon would be a little bit long, eh?:) (likewise if the elevator is placed on the other end of the moon). Seemes like it is best to start with earth after all?
Yeah, I never got why mickey mouse should be funny/entertaining. Of the disney series, I liked/like the italian produced donald duck comic books the most.
Yes it does perform work, acceleration of the probe is work. Formula for work: dW = F * ds, where F is force and ds is the change in position.
Now if the acceleration would stop, there would be no forces acting on the probe, and it would continue at an unchanging velocity and there is no work performed at this time.
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I believe the Huygens probe is financed and constructed by ESA (European Space Agency), it "only" got a ride to saturn with the NASA satelite "Cassini".
Here is the official ESA countdown! At the moment, it's only 4 hours left! :) However, after landing, it will take another 5 hours before the data starts coming in, and we know wether it was a success or a failure.
In the application, you can also fastforward and see what Cassini does in the coming years.
But what is this, that is next to the rock?
Is it the heat shield?
Sweden has a lower population density than USA (20 vs 30 per km^2) and at the same time the broadband penetration is higher. I would say that the US is lagging behind.
:)
Here is more information on international broadband penetration:
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0402/
Many users have 10/10 or better via fiber in the cities. Although on the whole, most broadband is delivered by ADSL and cable, with all operators offering a maximum speed of 8/1.
I guess one explanation is that the Swedish government has invested a lot of money on broadband/fiber/IT-infrastructure projects which has resulted in "city-networks" in all cities. However, these investments has only cost a fraction of what the military cost, while providing lots of more benefits for us, so it was definitely not a waste.
This is *the* source for great Linux games (both free and non-free, mostly free though). Most games on the first page of this list is really good actually. :)
Because SUN bought a SCO license, hence funded SCO in their anti-linux crusade. Also I have heard SUN employees bash Linux for its "uncertain IP" and "risk of litigation", while promoting SUN products such as their Linux distribution...
Isnt it a GPL violation to ship the Linux kernel together with nvidia binary modules?
There are several tens of millions of bittorrent users. I cannot see that they all are going to get sued.
Crap, should have used preview... Anyways, here it goes again:
:)
Good luck suing Piratebay...
suing ... :)
Yes, you are right, one cannot approach clients arrogantly. However, I quite often do find the corporate world to be a quite different compared to the "normal" (in my POV) "geek" world. :) (even if I dont say that to my clients)
..I guess I just have to get used to it. :)
Just the very common misconception that "more expensive" == "better" ( => free (as in beer) software must be horribly bad, etc), is quite different from my philosophy.
I don't think FDA recommends Microsoft Office or any other specific software in this case, but in my experience, companies seem to read "Microsoft Office" wherever it says "documents must be available for a long period of time".
I recently worked as a consultant for a biotech company. They where developing health care drugs for the American market, and one of all FDA regulations they had to follow, was that all documents regarding some substance or drug must be available for at least 10 years time, or more.
This was a big reason they did NOT adopt open office, because in their corporate world (that is the opposite of real life) Microsoft Office was the guarantee that their documents would be accessible in 10 years, or more. I disagreed and did some arguing with them for the importance of open formats, but in the end they choosed Microsoft Office. Because; In the corporate world, Microsoft is king.
I believe they made the wrong choice and (IMO) the correct way of following FDA regulations, etc, is to use open formats for data/documents/etc. However this has not yet been realized by the industry (or FDA, I believe).
However, when the industry DO realize, all open formats will be at a very nice spot compared to Microsoft Office/closed document formats.
Thanks. I am bad at english as you can see, but I appreciate any help I can get, such as your corrections.
In some countries, like sweden, bittorrent trackers are legal. Since they do not spread copyrighted material but just link to where one can find copyrighted material.
:)
Also there is a court ruling from the BBS-time that says that the BBS administrators is NOT responsible for what the users do on the BBS (such as trading warez). It is argued that the same reasoning can be done for a torrent tracker. However if there are copyrighted material transferred without the copyrightholders approval, people that USE the tracker is still doing something illegal.
The industry has tried to remove torrents from piratebay.org, which is the biggest torrent tracker in sweden, with limited success. (they have even gotten calls from Microsoft when Halo 2 was up for downloading)
This must be the reason behind china buying IBM computer division ..birth control! :)
Pretty soon they will hand out free thinkpads to all Chinese men, you will see..
For those that are wondering what "gnuheter" means; it is a composition of the english word "GNU" and Swedish word "nyheter" (for news), so in English I guess it would be something like "gnuws". uhm.. :)
China perhaps calls themselves communists (I don't know if they actually do that? Soviet did not afaik), however that does not make china a communist country.
Please use the term "totalitarian nation/state/country", as that is more appropriate.
I looked at the site, but saw no mentions of source code / "IP" sale. Does anyone know if it is possible to buy some of their IP, and in that case, maybe the open source community could do a blender for some nice classics? :)
Since they are indeed classics, they should not be as expensive as blender, I guess. What do you think?
millimeter = 10^-3 meter
:)
centimeter = 10^-2 meter
decimeter = 10^-1 meter
meter = 10^0 meter
kilometer = 10^3 meter
- Standard SI stuff, not some strange "rougly equal" imperial unit shit.
But if you work overtime you get normal hourly-pay plus overtime-compensation, so overtime only cost them more?
..or maybe you could start with mars; mars has the same rotational time as earth, but much smaller gravitation.
The masscentrum of the elevator must lie in the geosynchronous orbit. Does the moon have a geosynchronous orbit around itself (due to the slow rotation, 1 rotation in 20-something days)?
:) (likewise if the elevator is placed on the other end of the moon). Seemes like it is best to start with earth after all?
I guess earth lies in its geosynchronous orbit, since we always see the same side of the moon, but an elevator from earth to the moon would be a little bit long, eh?
Yeah, I never got why mickey mouse should be funny/entertaining. Of the disney series, I liked/like the italian produced donald duck comic books the most.
Yes it does perform work, acceleration of the probe is work. Formula for work: dW = F * ds, where F is force and ds is the change in position.
Now if the acceleration would stop, there would be no forces acting on the probe, and it would continue at an unchanging velocity and there is no work performed at this time.