In a crawl space 30 inches tall beneath an exhibtion stand using a programable calculator to come up with some fudge factors to include in a demonstration so that that the equipment appeared to work much better than it did in reality. The program was nearly 1K lines long by the time the exhibition opened. The equipment I was fudging was already in that crawl space...
Been there, done that, writing the first paper
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Scientific R&D At Home?
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As part of Galaxy Zoo, I am leading a project looking at Irregular galaxies. There is masses of data available on the net under SDSS, Galex, Hubble and others. All it takes is a methodical approach to finding a data set then analysing it. We have 18,000 irregular galaxies - the biggest study to date looked at 137 of them, we have rather more. The first paper just needs some time to bring the results together. More papers will follow.
I recently registered a.com domain where we conciously considered the.com as meaning community..org would have been too constrained as the group was not in any way organised..net could have been used... but.
.com is taken as THE tld, it does not have to mean commercial. I am sure there is a lot of scope for other meanings to.com.
Richard
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A group of us once a year take supersoakers and many gallons of water to some man made caves (old quarry) and spend the afternoon having a serious shoot up. These days all our supersoakers are spray painted black, and we wear dark clothing.
The quarry Winspit was the location used for both a Blake's 7 episode and a Dr Who episode, and like last year the fight will be between the local Blake's 7 group and the local Dr who supporters...
For your DSL to work it needs a rack of expensive equipment called a DSLAM to be at the other end of the copper line from your house. From that rack, the phones will go one way towards the Central Office and the data another. Many DSLAMs are not suited to mounting outside of the central office.
The convertion point between your fibre and the copper will be a simple mux. Mounting a DSLAM there will require better power, good environmental controls and appropriate conectivity, and most importantly enough customers nearby to justify the large cost.
It can and is done, but not very much at present, though it is likely to become more common in time, as demand grows, or when the existing mux needs upgrading.
I run several sites, which do make money. If you have a reasonably large throughput of visitors, then consider well placed book/video links to Amazon/Blackstar/Whereever. It surprises me how much traffic these generate, for the little work it takes to put them in. These can include the "Support this site by using these links to buy your books" approach and after a review of a book/video particular links for that item. (My CGI customises these links to the most appropriate link for the customer - eg in the US video links go to Amazon, for the rest of the world to Blackstar).
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In a crawl space 30 inches tall beneath an exhibtion stand using a programable calculator to come up with some fudge factors to include in a demonstration so that that the equipment appeared to work much better than it did in reality. The program was nearly 1K lines long by the time the exhibition opened. The equipment I was fudging was already in that crawl space...
When I used an Osborne people would come up and say "Wow Whats That!", if you have an Ipad they just say "Oh an Ipad"
For a detailed explanation see Bill Keels post http://blogs.zooniverse.org/galaxyzoo/2011/01/10/hannys-voorwerp-and-hubble-what-did-we-learn/
As part of Galaxy Zoo, I am leading a project looking at Irregular galaxies. There is masses of data available on the net under SDSS, Galex, Hubble and others. All it takes is a methodical approach to finding a data set then analysing it. We have 18,000 irregular galaxies - the biggest study to date looked at 137 of them, we have rather more. The first paper just needs some time to bring the results together. More papers will follow.
They are green due to the redshift, any "Peas" closer than 1.5 GLY would be blue.
To follow the story of the Voorwerp see the following entries in the Galaxy Zoo Blog: http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/01/18/more-on-the-voorwerp http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/01/31/the-mystery-of-the-voorwerp-deepens http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/03/20/voorwerp-fever http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2008/05/30/whats-an-astronomers-favourite-birthday-gift
I recently registered a .com domain where we conciously considered the .com as meaning community. .org would have been too constrained as the group was not in any way organised. .net could have been used... but.
.com.
.com is taken as THE tld, it does not have to mean commercial. I am sure there is a lot of scope for other meanings to
Richard
A group of us once a year take supersoakers and many gallons of water to some man made caves (old quarry) and spend the afternoon having a serious shoot up. These days all our supersoakers are spray painted black, and we wear dark clothing. The quarry Winspit was the location used for both a Blake's 7 episode and a Dr Who episode, and like last year the fight will be between the local Blake's 7 group and the local Dr who supporters...
For your DSL to work it needs a rack of expensive equipment called a DSLAM to be at the other end of the copper line from your house. From that rack, the phones will go one way towards the Central Office and the data another. Many DSLAMs are not suited to mounting outside of the central office.
The convertion point between your fibre and the copper will be a simple mux. Mounting a DSLAM there will require better power, good environmental controls and appropriate conectivity, and most importantly enough customers nearby to justify the large cost.
It can and is done, but not very much at present, though it is likely to become more common in time, as demand grows, or when the existing mux needs upgrading.
I run several sites, which do make money. If you have a reasonably large throughput of visitors, then consider well placed book/video links to Amazon/Blackstar/Whereever. It surprises me how much traffic these generate, for the little work it takes to put them in. These can include the "Support this site by using these links to buy your books" approach and after a review of a book/video particular links for that item. (My CGI customises these links to the most appropriate link for the customer - eg in the US video links go to Amazon, for the rest of the world to Blackstar).