The manned submarines(link to trieste) that reached the deepest part of the ocean were thick skinned vessels with no manipulators or propulsion.
The Trieste was fitted with a manipulator in 1964.
There is no technical reason that prevent submersibles operating in depths of over 6000meters. The only reason you don't see more
submersibles going deeper than 6000meters is that
the average depth of the oceans is 6000meters, so
paying extra just to explore a few canyons isn't
too apealing to everybody.
The two main reason for using an ROV over a man
Submersible is, cost, and safety
(i.e. something is too dangerous for people to
get close to, toxic waste, caves, ship wrecks
with high entanglment risk, etc.).
John Lennon had some potential political influence and that made him a target, especially because he was a scumbag hippie type.
That's not why he has a file, it was because John
Lennon was a seceret agent for MI6, feeding very
unhelpful/false information to American Intellegence departments. This was part of an
attempt to stem US world domination by keeping it
locked in the cold war and keeping econimy suppressed....
The only reason to have a satellite controlled system is to impress your neighbors momentarily before they realize what a dope you are for wasting money on that.
First, if you grow your own, then it's not wasting money (grow outdoor if you can't buy lights, hell
grow outdoor if you can).
Second, I've always wanted to start a 'planned growing
environment control software' project. I.E. a
a suit of programs for controling water, light,
humidity and other things when growing plants.
Ideally this program could run for the whole
life cycle of plant (or until havest). The main
reason would be to write high yield programs
for certain (many?) types of crops. Things like shortening
the "day" light cycle to trick the plant into flowering early, then increasing the day light cycle to maximize crop yield. Could even shorten
the crop/havest cycles.
Just a thought. Maybe the natural way is better thou...
Frankly, do we need that many colours to pick from? I think not. Some marketing droid must have thought that a big number here would impress the customer.
Of course marketing came up with that, and the
"Collect them all" slogan as well.
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Not ALL of us in the USA are too stupid - you do have plenty of people like me who prefer to live on several acres of land and enjoy the peacefulness of knowing your nearest neighbor is 2+ acres away.......
Those of you in foreign countries (especailly Europeans) get very pissy about us Americans sitting in our traffic, etc etc - but you don't seem to realize - the majority of traffic (in Georgia at least) - is from people who do not live in the city and instead commute to the inner city to work.
Ah, you mean that you are causing all the major
traffic jams and using most of the resources (compared to people in the living in the city).
Anyway, I don't see how your 2 acres life style
justifies all the traffic jams and poor public
transport. If you think it does I can see why
the Euro-trash gets pissy......
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What do you mean?! What was wrong with the testcard, transmissions starting at lunchtime,
Crackerjack, Tizwas, and Tomrorow's World when it was good?
Very compatible with the BBC Micro.
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Indeed, in the early 80's, the BBC transmitted programs for the BBC Micro via teletext in a 'Telesoftware' service. This finally ended around 1989.
I used to have a teletext box for my BBC Model B
(BBC Micro computer), this could be used to download celefax an oracle (itv's teletext service). But it's the ceefax software download
area which was my first introduction to free software/open source, although I don't think every
sent over ceefax was open source.
I remember downloading my C compiler over ceefax,
I think it was micro-C or mini-C. But a C compiler that would compile on a 64KB system.
Knocked my socks off it did.
There were also 'high res' (for the time) satelite
weather imagines you could download via ceefax. Save them up for a few days and have your own
animated weather charts.
All in all, teletext services provided far more
of a positive affect on my life than the TV signal
it was piggy backed on.
Make the manfuacturers and producers (by tariff for imported goods I guess) pay for the recycling of products they create, based on how much waste is created. Built in incentive for them to create low-waste products.
I'm not naive, I know we'd all end up paying more for it in the end, but it seems only then would we have the funding necessary to do garbage/waste processing properly.
Many be so, but things that are more wasting in
packaging will cost more, which will drive consumers to use the more eco-friendly packaging.
(My employment contract certainly does similar, although with a "anythign you do on your own time with your own resources is yours" clause, thankfully)
Federal law allows people to carry shotguns. I doubt the dorm would have any problem prohibiting students from hanging their blunderbust from a gun rack over their bunk bed.
And if there was a Federal law prohibiting the
regulation of blunderbusts by anybody other than
the FBC (Federal Blunderbust Commision), would they
be able to regulate where students hang their blunderbusts?
There is an article in this Month's issue of Smithsonian Air and Space magazine that has hard data from NASA tests that proves cell phones are a hazard. Cell phones are just not shielded well use,a plane has about 10 systems that rely on external signals, and some cells emit signals (not the call signals but "leakage") in that range.
leakage.....mmmmmmmmm
Anyhow I dont think just adding "picocells" is going to correct the problem of poorly designed cell phones that give off EMR they are not supposed to!
But adding shielding to the equipment prone to
"leakage" would correct the problem of poorly
designed cell phones that give off EMR they are
not supposed to!
Just because God has not spoken to you, does not mean that: 1) God does not exist and 2) God does not speak. I can only say that I have heard Him,...
your imaginary friend talks to you and he does exist?
I would like to say that because you hear voices this couls well mean, 1)
You are crazy, 2) you are hearing voices, 3)
you should be allowed to hold public office.
Cygnus (now Redhat) did this for open source projects
that they created. Cygwin, gdbtk/insight, Source-Navigator, etc.. all required patch submitters to sign over the the copyrights
before the patch is accepted into the source
base. This is all very normal.
A work from home job (with a preference for free software).
That's all I really want. I'm 3x to 4x more
productive, I rarely have to work over 40 hours,
I never get sick from co-workers coming to work
when they SHOULD BE HOME ON SICK LEAVE.......
Welcome to the United States of America... sorry that's the way it works here.
It look a lot of planning by the motor companies to
make it that way... buying public transit lines and
running them in the ground, getting the government
to break up successful private transit lines as
monopolies...
Anyway, you guys are living in the '80s. These
days going anywhere in America requires a BIG car.
Small cars just can't cut it any more, the don't
go anywhere as good as a BIG car.
Don't you love those TV ads american auto companies
put out, that say how life sucks if you don't
have a car, then at the end add something like
"we're Americans and we like it that way because
we do".
It's guerilla marketing, plain and simple, just like Sci-Fi's recent attempt with M. Night Shyamalan's new movie. You're reading about it, so it's working.
Damn, that shit is gooooooooood. I think every
cent they spent on their guerilla marketing
will pay 10 folded. I never knew bees where so
interesting, I think I'm going to get some. Who
ever Margaret hired to do the Halo hack and fake
the web site being hacked to cover up so she didn't
get blamed for the Halo hack must be pretty good
(I'd assume she didn't do it herself). Of course
the bee industry must be a in wicked state if
this is the type of marketing they are resorting
too.
Excuse me if I've omitted one (or included something
that I shouldn't have). (I'm not really sure if Netscape was really derived from Mosaic - but I bet
you it was some sort of inspiration).
brandishing a fake weapon can get you arrested or at the very least having a cop detain you at gun point.
Hell, if you live the UK they will shoot you for
brandishing a fake weapon. Also in Sunnyvale California they will shoot you for brandishing a
fake weapon. I'm going to guess they will shoot
you most places you brandish a fake weapon...maybe...
Please detail how we will get lower gas prices out of this, when we are currently shipping gas TO Iraq at a loss to keep THEIR prices low.
Because the government (which has stronger ties with
oil than people) will simply reduce the amount of
gas it buys for it's reserve. The government gas
reserve is one of the biggest controlling facts in
(short term) gas prices. The goverment has been buying gas (and hence increasing gas prices) when
the price of gas was already very high.
The whole "No blood for oil" thing has been bunk the whole time through. This was was bad for American oil companies, and bad for American oil consumers. Therefore it seems veryunlikely that oil was the motive at all.
How so? American oil companies are making bank
with all Iraq and Afgan contracts. The American
goverment is using the war on terror as an
excuse to give away all the money we have (and
a few billion we don't have) to buddies at
certain companies. The companies don't even
have to bid, they just get the contract at the
price they say.
This is very bad for capitalism, many companies
are suffering. But take a look the defence and
oil companies that have ties to high up government
people. They are making insane amounts of money.
Didn't you get the memo? Iraq is sovereign. Nothing of theirs is under American control.
I wouldn't call it sovereign, it's more like we've
now installed our oil friendly government.
NOW HEAR THIS PEOPLE OF AMERICA: Thank you for your
support in getting the oil out of Iraq, you will
now be rewarded with several months of lower gas
prices. (Until we've identified the next target in
which case prices go up until it's time for a reward.)
$50million to put a certain strenght, certain
protocal communications
satellite at that nice point for putting
things between the moon and the earth (can't
remember what it's called).
$75million to put a communication satellite
orbiting mars around the light/dark equator.
Talks to the half way sat.
$100million to put a $Xmillion robot on the
face of the moon. Teams must pay $Xmillion
deposit to try this million. Loose the bot,
loose your deposit (yes you can try again,
but you've got to give us another deposit).
$100million to put a astro-telescope on the
dark side of the moon. (Same idea as above).
Maybe my figures are bit off and need raised (or
lowered?). But it does that sound cool.
Yeah! the space race is finally doing something
more than few times a year. NASA did good, but
they can cut costs if they out source.
This pretty exciting, in fact this is the only
news I know of that's worth talking about. So
many people don't know history is happening right
now....
Slashdot Mirror
The Trieste was fitted with a manipulator in 1964. There is no technical reason that prevent submersibles operating in depths of over 6000meters. The only reason you don't see more submersibles going deeper than 6000meters is that the average depth of the oceans is 6000meters, so paying extra just to explore a few canyons isn't too apealing to everybody.
The two main reason for using an ROV over a man Submersible is, cost, and safety (i.e. something is too dangerous for people to get close to, toxic waste, caves, ship wrecks with high entanglment risk, etc.).
The review was slashdotted before I got there. Is the A768i not a real Linux PDA? Please explain.
That's not why he has a file, it was because John Lennon was a seceret agent for MI6, feeding very unhelpful/false information to American Intellegence departments. This was part of an attempt to stem US world domination by keeping it locked in the cold war and keeping econimy suppressed....
First, if you grow your own, then it's not wasting money (grow outdoor if you can't buy lights, hell grow outdoor if you can).
Second, I've always wanted to start a 'planned growing environment control software' project. I.E. a a suit of programs for controling water, light, humidity and other things when growing plants. Ideally this program could run for the whole life cycle of plant (or until havest). The main reason would be to write high yield programs for certain (many?) types of crops. Things like shortening the "day" light cycle to trick the plant into flowering early, then increasing the day light cycle to maximize crop yield. Could even shorten the crop/havest cycles.
Just a thought. Maybe the natural way is better thou...
peace.... ;-)
Frankly, do we need that many colours to pick from? I think not. Some marketing droid must have thought that a big number here would impress the customer.
Of course marketing came up with that, and the "Collect them all" slogan as well.
Those of you in foreign countries (especailly Europeans) get very pissy about us Americans sitting in our traffic, etc etc - but you don't seem to realize - the majority of traffic (in Georgia at least) - is from people who do not live in the city and instead commute to the inner city to work.
Ah, you mean that you are causing all the major traffic jams and using most of the resources (compared to people in the living in the city). Anyway, I don't see how your 2 acres life style justifies all the traffic jams and poor public transport. If you think it does I can see why the Euro-trash gets pissy......
Ok, maybe Tomorrows World, and, alright, Monkey (AKA Monkey Magic) totally ruled.
I used to have a teletext box for my BBC Model B (BBC Micro computer), this could be used to download celefax an oracle (itv's teletext service). But it's the ceefax software download area which was my first introduction to free software/open source, although I don't think every sent over ceefax was open source.
I remember downloading my C compiler over ceefax, I think it was micro-C or mini-C. But a C compiler that would compile on a 64KB system. Knocked my socks off it did.
There were also 'high res' (for the time) satelite weather imagines you could download via ceefax. Save them up for a few days and have your own animated weather charts.
All in all, teletext services provided far more of a positive affect on my life than the TV signal it was piggy backed on.
I'm not naive, I know we'd all end up paying more for it in the end, but it seems only then would we have the funding necessary to do garbage/waste processing properly.
Many be so, but things that are more wasting in packaging will cost more, which will drive consumers to use the more eco-friendly packaging.
Ugh? Where do you work? Are they hiring?
Today people don't really run for President, we let the media and judges decide who should be President.
And if there was a Federal law prohibiting the regulation of blunderbusts by anybody other than the FBC (Federal Blunderbust Commision), would they be able to regulate where students hang their blunderbusts?
leakage.....mmmmmmmmm
Anyhow I dont think just adding "picocells" is going to correct the problem of poorly designed cell phones that give off EMR they are not supposed to!
But adding shielding to the equipment prone to "leakage" would correct the problem of poorly designed cell phones that give off EMR they are not supposed to!
Does EMR effect children?
your imaginary friend talks to you and he does exist?
I would like to say that because you hear voices this couls well mean, 1) You are crazy, 2) you are hearing voices, 3) you should be allowed to hold public office.
Cygnus (now Redhat) did this for open source projects that they created. Cygwin, gdbtk/insight, Source-Navigator, etc.. all required patch submitters to sign over the the copyrights before the patch is accepted into the source base. This is all very normal.
That's all I really want. I'm 3x to 4x more productive, I rarely have to work over 40 hours, I never get sick from co-workers coming to work when they SHOULD BE HOME ON SICK LEAVE.......
I'll come to work 2 times per year...?
Ali is a mirror of God.
Welcome to the United States of America... sorry that's the way it works here.
It look a lot of planning by the motor companies to make it that way... buying public transit lines and running them in the ground, getting the government to break up successful private transit lines as monopolies...
Anyway, you guys are living in the '80s. These days going anywhere in America requires a BIG car. Small cars just can't cut it any more, the don't go anywhere as good as a BIG car.
Don't you love those TV ads american auto companies put out, that say how life sucks if you don't have a car, then at the end add something like "we're Americans and we like it that way because we do".
Damn, that shit is gooooooooood. I think every cent they spent on their guerilla marketing will pay 10 folded. I never knew bees where so interesting, I think I'm going to get some. Who ever Margaret hired to do the Halo hack and fake the web site being hacked to cover up so she didn't get blamed for the Halo hack must be pretty good (I'd assume she didn't do it herself). Of course the bee industry must be a in wicked state if this is the type of marketing they are resorting too.
Excuse me if I've omitted one (or included something that I shouldn't have). (I'm not really sure if Netscape was really derived from Mosaic - but I bet you it was some sort of inspiration).
Hell, if you live the UK they will shoot you for brandishing a fake weapon. Also in Sunnyvale California they will shoot you for brandishing a fake weapon. I'm going to guess they will shoot you most places you brandish a fake weapon...maybe...
But hey, isn't darwin great!
Because the government (which has stronger ties with oil than people) will simply reduce the amount of gas it buys for it's reserve. The government gas reserve is one of the biggest controlling facts in (short term) gas prices. The goverment has been buying gas (and hence increasing gas prices) when the price of gas was already very high.
The whole "No blood for oil" thing has been bunk the whole time through. This was was bad for American oil companies, and bad for American oil consumers. Therefore it seems veryunlikely that oil was the motive at all.
How so? American oil companies are making bank with all Iraq and Afgan contracts. The American goverment is using the war on terror as an excuse to give away all the money we have (and a few billion we don't have) to buddies at certain companies. The companies don't even have to bid, they just get the contract at the price they say.
This is very bad for capitalism, many companies are suffering. But take a look the defence and oil companies that have ties to high up government people. They are making insane amounts of money.
I wouldn't call it sovereign, it's more like we've now installed our oil friendly government.
NOW HEAR THIS PEOPLE OF AMERICA: Thank you for your support in getting the oil out of Iraq, you will now be rewarded with several months of lower gas prices. (Until we've identified the next target in which case prices go up until it's time for a reward.)
Maybe my figures are bit off and need raised (or lowered?). But it does that sound cool.
Yeah! the space race is finally doing something more than few times a year. NASA did good, but they can cut costs if they out source.
This pretty exciting, in fact this is the only news I know of that's worth talking about. So many people don't know history is happening right now....
To answer my own question:
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20 040621.wspac0621_2/BNStory/International/
I think they are wrong as well.