You know, in Twin Falls, Idaho (Farming town) Desil is very popular, though not for its fuel efficnency.. There are lots of huge V8 Super Charged desil trucks all over the place. One thing about desil is that its anything but nice to be near when its burning. The exaust on these things is a really thick black smoke and they smell absolutly NASTY!
I tried to download one of these once.. I set it up and started recieving on my 56k modem.. after getting bored I sarted channel surfing.. only to find the show I was downloading.. I havn't tried again since..
I can't really see how this would help in hostage rescue situations? It seems like it wouldn't really help much. You race in, grab the hostage and race out? Not really.. either way.. I didn't see anything about the military on the site.
some form of artificial gravity. I don't see the big deal here - just spin the damn space craft. I've heard some comments that there are problems controling two body systems in a stable way, but there must be some way around it (rigidity, three-body systems, active feedback...?). All this endless talk about overcoming weightlessness (sp?) is stupid when such an obvious solution is at hand.
To spin a spacecraft takes FAR to much power. You have to anchor a portion of the spacecraft so that it doesn't spin, and then spin another portion. One way of offsetting the spin is to spin two equally sized chunks, in opposite directions.. Also, spinning the shuttle wouldn't work. It would have to be hundreds of feet across to have a serious effect. If you spun the shuttle, you would have max gravity on the floor, and max negative gravity on the ceiling since the middle of the craft is still 'no gravity' and either size is pulling towards the outside of the spin. You craft would have to be large enough to put the entire human on one side of the craft. And it wouldn't be 'perfect' gravity since the higher you go the less gravity there is.
Their current plan to overcome weightlessness is to build an operating table sized bed. The astronaut lays on the bed, with their feet on two supports at the foot of the bed. The head of the bed is connected to a motor device. The whole bed spins in circles and causes weight on the astronaut who then exercises in a 'excessive gravity' environment. He can then go back to living in weightlessness without serious health concern. This system takes far less power and is easier to maintain and build.
Size. The space craft will need to be large enough that the crew don't go mad and actually are comfortable. No spacecraft to date has been comfortable. NASA's approach seems to be: design something just big enough that the crew don't rip each others bodies apart inside a month and call it a success. It all seems motivated by wanting to fit the whole craft on a single, Saturn 5 style, launcher. Why? Surely a ship can be assembled in earth orbit.
Or get people that like small spaces. I personally love being cramped up in a 2-3 room house.. With a little training and a lot of stuff to work on (Constant science projects there and back) I could handle it no problem. It's not for people that like large open spaces, but for those of us who like a tight area this works great. Also think though, the crew of a Sub stays in the tight sub space for 3 months (IIRC) so it's not a completely impossible option.
Propulsion. It'll need to be done as quickly as possible, which means propulsion. This in turn means Nuclear (either directly or more likely powering a plasma drive or something). Nuclear means hard time winning over the public (even though it is so obviously the only choice and I am not generally a supporter of nuclear fission)
Remember once you get it started it maintains its momentum really well. 6 months there and 6 months back really isn't that long of a trip. It's not short, but it's not 4 or 5 years. Current rocket based systems would still work. And a nuclear reactor? In space solar panels are FAR more effective than on earth. No sense in installing a reactor when they can pull lots of energy from the sun itself.
1) Actually there are several companies that reclaim gold from old computers, and lots of not-so-old hardware gets donated or given away.
2) There are several quad boards out there, but unfortunately they are poorly designed. Intel processors share the same bus, and at 66 or 100MHz you're going to have a very large bottleneck. This limits the effectiveness of large multi processor machines. In almost every situation the two 1800's would be faster than the four 400's.
That is 460W peak not average. We power tested our IDE drives here (5400RPM) and found that they use 10-15W during startup, but then only draw 1W average while running. I want to know what they where using for USB devices since the usb supply only provides a few hundred miliwatts. That power must have been a supply (not from the internal Power supply)
Another interesting thing to note though is how this board is going to be 1U ready.. (Notice the angled memory sockets, this is so that 'tall' memory can still fit within the 1U enclosure.) The 8 fan thing really isn't that impressive when you realize that they are designed to run small 1U style fans like the IntelISP1100. This system uses lots of smaller 1U sized fans to move air through the case and out the back.
Currently about 60 percent of Office users work on either version 95 or 97, not the more recent Office 2000. In a strange move, the company has opted not to offer Office XP upgrades to version 95 licensees, which make up about 10 percent of Office users. They will have to pay full price.
My personal reasoning for this is that the upgrades are usually just a little cheaper than the full version. If the upgrade was $50 people would most likely stay up to date, but as long as the upgrades are %80 of what the full version costs people will stay in the 'good enough for now' catagory. The use of year marks on there operating systems always reminds me cars.. You don't want to get a new one every year because it costs to much, but you want to stay close to the new software releases. Some people want the newest and greatest, others want a one time purchase that lasts 5 to 10 years before they replace it.
Before anybody freaks out.. bear in mind that this is not a troll/flame.. Well.. not intended to be anyways.
This article is going to bring out the 'Why this/that' arguments about bad laws and such. I only want to point out that they are going after people that are STEALING movies. If you buy the DVD they are not trying to punish you. They are also doing exactly what many people in here asked for, fighting technology with technology.. Instead of sending waves of lawyers out they are trying to make it less 'plausable' to steal. Now, if they are trying to take away any fair use then I am going to complain, but to make things harder to steal is called security. My personal thoughts on the impact? None.. people will STILL be able to rip movies off DVD'd and download them over the net. It only takes ONE person to destroy there encryption scheme.. it takes hundreds of lawyers to defend the people.
I am not a big fan of requesting things from companies for using open source. Mainly because it seems to set a double standard. Joe user is allowed to use the software free of charge, but once the company uses the software, be it for there own use or in a product they are selling, they have to pay with patents or what not for it? Granted, they should pay for it, but forcing them to do it isn't the best way to go about it. For example, IBM is pushing Linux and paying for it by donating hardware and buying ad space and pushing the idea of free software.
Let the company do what they will with the software, as long as they don't violate the license. In time the company will donate back to the open source world, be it with advertising, hardware, or code, once there business model is based around open source software it is in there best interest to help it along. IBM is going to want to advertise the software they use. And they are going to want to hire programmers to help the project along.
In Boise, Idaho we have a large pipe in front of one of our treatment plants. The light methane on fire in the bottom and leat the heat/expansion turn turbins going up the pipe.. It is then released at the top of the pipe system.. They did this so they wouldn't have to pay to get rid of methane. It turns out that this system is so efficient that they are installing it all across the country.. (Not that Boise was the first.. but it was installed before it was realized how efficient the system was) On the same note, there are several systems that pump methane from land fills and burn them. Ney York city has one of these if I remember corectly.
...the NY Times admin/tracking meeting in a week. 'Strangest thing happened.. Somebody was just loading this one article over and over again from several hundred thousand IP addresses..'
They are going to have to charge at LEAST AUD1733 to make a profit.. And chances are they arn't doing this 'for the fun of it'.. Around here they have several network game centers. 40 or 50 systems running Q3A, $5 a half hour.. big huge quake matches.. The problem is that most people are not used to there setup. They get a gerneric mouse, 17" monitor and such.. I guess its fair since they all get the SAME hardware and they all have to get used to it.. but still.. its not quite the same..
.. a grocery store I used to work at. If you where caught shoplifting in the store you where banned from ALL sites around the country for 100 years. I thought it was a little anal at times since they would actually file trespassing charges against people that came back in the store. They had a big book upstairs with pictures of ALL the people cought shoplifting since the store opened.
The big problem was that they had several different names.. Waremart, WinCo Foods, and Cub Foods.. You could inadvertently stumble on a trespassing charge without realizing what you had done.. With technology like this it makes this even more likely. The store already uses cameras to follow customers and watch for shoplifting.
IBM has a new laptop that is awsome for gesture navigation. It is large and heavy, but it opens up with a notebook on one side, and the laptop/monitor on the other. It has both a normal laptop mouse and a pen mouse. The pen mouse can be used on the screen, or on the pad beside the laptop. It comes with a documentation program that allows you to write/draw into the software itsself =) Its _REALLY_ cool... the pen allows you to do gesture type actions just like you where writing them down!
Anything more than the distance.. the military has been using remote controlled planes for quite a while.. During Desert Storm they used remote control planes as spotters for the 16" guns. (Ironically there is video of Iraqi solders surrendering to the remote controlled plane) this recent article have video of them using remote controlled planes to see over the horizon..
That being said.. Its really nice to see the military remove people from dangerous missions.. if the plane crashes then nobody is lost and hopefully a self destruct system kicks in (whoa.. remembering the days of the V1 rockets)
Crusing along at several hundred k a second.. all of a sudden it starts slowly dropping.. down to double digits.. then single digits.. After trying to reconnect a few times I give up and check slashdot.. only to realize.. grumble.. I guess I won't be getting FBSD anytime tonight!
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You know, in Twin Falls, Idaho (Farming town) Desil is very popular, though not for its fuel efficnency.. There are lots of huge V8 Super Charged desil trucks all over the place. One thing about desil is that its anything but nice to be near when its burning. The exaust on these things is a really thick black smoke and they smell absolutly NASTY!
I tried to download one of these once.. I set it up and started recieving on my 56k modem.. after getting bored I sarted channel surfing.. only to find the show I was downloading.. I havn't tried again since..
I can't really see how this would help in hostage rescue situations? It seems like it wouldn't really help much. You race in, grab the hostage and race out? Not really.. either way.. I didn't see anything about the military on the site.
... "What can I get for a quarter?"
some form of artificial gravity. I don't see the big deal here - just spin the damn space craft. I've heard some comments that there are problems controling two body systems in a stable way, but there must be some way around it (rigidity, three-body systems, active feedback...?). All this endless talk about overcoming weightlessness (sp?) is stupid when such an obvious solution is at hand.
To spin a spacecraft takes FAR to much power. You have to anchor a portion of the spacecraft so that it doesn't spin, and then spin another portion. One way of offsetting the spin is to spin two equally sized chunks, in opposite directions.. Also, spinning the shuttle wouldn't work. It would have to be hundreds of feet across to have a serious effect. If you spun the shuttle, you would have max gravity on the floor, and max negative gravity on the ceiling since the middle of the craft is still 'no gravity' and either size is pulling towards the outside of the spin. You craft would have to be large enough to put the entire human on one side of the craft. And it wouldn't be 'perfect' gravity since the higher you go the less gravity there is.
Their current plan to overcome weightlessness is to build an operating table sized bed. The astronaut lays on the bed, with their feet on two supports at the foot of the bed. The head of the bed is connected to a motor device. The whole bed spins in circles and causes weight on the astronaut who then exercises in a 'excessive gravity' environment. He can then go back to living in weightlessness without serious health concern. This system takes far less power and is easier to maintain and build.
Size. The space craft will need to be large enough that the crew don't go mad and actually are comfortable. No spacecraft to date has been comfortable. NASA's approach seems to be: design something just big enough that the crew don't rip each others bodies apart inside a month and call it a success. It all seems motivated by wanting to fit the whole craft on a single, Saturn 5 style, launcher. Why? Surely a ship can be assembled in earth orbit.
Or get people that like small spaces. I personally love being cramped up in a 2-3 room house.. With a little training and a lot of stuff to work on (Constant science projects there and back) I could handle it no problem. It's not for people that like large open spaces, but for those of us who like a tight area this works great. Also think though, the crew of a Sub stays in the tight sub space for 3 months (IIRC) so it's not a completely impossible option.
Propulsion. It'll need to be done as quickly as possible, which means propulsion. This in turn means Nuclear (either directly or more likely powering a plasma drive or something). Nuclear means hard time winning over the public (even though it is so obviously the only choice and I am not generally a supporter of nuclear fission)
Remember once you get it started it maintains its momentum really well. 6 months there and 6 months back really isn't that long of a trip. It's not short, but it's not 4 or 5 years. Current rocket based systems would still work. And a nuclear reactor? In space solar panels are FAR more effective than on earth. No sense in installing a reactor when they can pull lots of energy from the sun itself.
1) Actually there are several companies that reclaim gold from old computers, and lots of not-so-old hardware gets donated or given away.
2) There are several quad boards out there, but unfortunately they are poorly designed. Intel processors share the same bus, and at 66 or 100MHz you're going to have a very large bottleneck. This limits the effectiveness of large multi processor machines. In almost every situation the two 1800's would be faster than the four 400's.
That is 460W peak not average. We power tested our IDE drives here (5400RPM) and found that they use 10-15W during startup, but then only draw 1W average while running. I want to know what they where using for USB devices since the usb supply only provides a few hundred miliwatts. That power must have been a supply (not from the internal Power supply)
Another interesting thing to note though is how this board is going to be 1U ready.. (Notice the angled memory sockets, this is so that 'tall' memory can still fit within the 1U enclosure.) The 8 fan thing really isn't that impressive when you realize that they are designed to run small 1U style fans like the Intel ISP1100. This system uses lots of smaller 1U sized fans to move air through the case and out the back.
Currently about 60 percent of Office users work on either version 95 or 97, not the more recent Office 2000. In a strange move, the company has opted not to offer Office XP upgrades to version 95 licensees, which make up about 10 percent of Office users. They will have to pay full price.
My personal reasoning for this is that the upgrades are usually just a little cheaper than the full version. If the upgrade was $50 people would most likely stay up to date, but as long as the upgrades are %80 of what the full version costs people will stay in the 'good enough for now' catagory. The use of year marks on there operating systems always reminds me cars.. You don't want to get a new one every year because it costs to much, but you want to stay close to the new software releases. Some people want the newest and greatest, others want a one time purchase that lasts 5 to 10 years before they replace it.
Before anybody freaks out.. bear in mind that this is not a troll/flame.. Well.. not intended to be anyways.
This article is going to bring out the 'Why this/that' arguments about bad laws and such. I only want to point out that they are going after people that are STEALING movies. If you buy the DVD they are not trying to punish you. They are also doing exactly what many people in here asked for, fighting technology with technology.. Instead of sending waves of lawyers out they are trying to make it less 'plausable' to steal. Now, if they are trying to take away any fair use then I am going to complain, but to make things harder to steal is called security. My personal thoughts on the impact? None.. people will STILL be able to rip movies off DVD'd and download them over the net. It only takes ONE person to destroy there encryption scheme.. it takes hundreds of lawyers to defend the people.
I am not a big fan of requesting things from companies for using open source. Mainly because it seems to set a double standard. Joe user is allowed to use the software free of charge, but once the company uses the software, be it for there own use or in a product they are selling, they have to pay with patents or what not for it? Granted, they should pay for it, but forcing them to do it isn't the best way to go about it. For example, IBM is pushing Linux and paying for it by donating hardware and buying ad space and pushing the idea of free software. Let the company do what they will with the software, as long as they don't violate the license.
In time the company will donate back to the open source world, be it with advertising, hardware, or code, once there business model is based around open source software it is in there best interest to help it along. IBM is going to want to advertise the software they use. And they are going to want to hire programmers to help the project along.
Many sewage tratment plants are powered this way.
In Boise, Idaho we have a large pipe in front of one of our treatment plants. The light methane on fire in the bottom and leat the heat/expansion turn turbins going up the pipe.. It is then released at the top of the pipe system.. They did this so they wouldn't have to pay to get rid of methane. It turns out that this system is so efficient that they are installing it all across the country.. (Not that Boise was the first.. but it was installed before it was realized how efficient the system was)
On the same note, there are several systems that pump methane from land fills and burn them. Ney York city has one of these if I remember corectly.
Best as I can tell.. there are diferent sections with diferent colors.. like BSD, Apache.. etc.. etc..
...the NY Times admin/tracking meeting in a week. 'Strangest thing happened.. Somebody was just loading this one article over and over again from several hundred thousand IP addresses..'
There is always room for improvement over existing protocols.
Yea.. Microsoft said the same thing and now every message I get from a outlook client has html embeded in it even though its marked as plain text...
(Sorry.. thats been a gripe of mine latley..)
They are going to have to charge at LEAST AUD1733 to make a profit.. And chances are they arn't doing this 'for the fun of it'.. Around here they have several network game centers. 40 or 50 systems running Q3A, $5 a half hour.. big huge quake matches.. The problem is that most people are not used to there setup. They get a gerneric mouse, 17" monitor and such.. I guess its fair since they all get the SAME hardware and they all have to get used to it.. but still.. its not quite the same..
.. a grocery store I used to work at. If you where caught shoplifting in the store you where banned from ALL sites around the country for 100 years. I thought it was a little anal at times since they would actually file trespassing charges against people that came back in the store. They had a big book upstairs with pictures of ALL the people cought shoplifting since the store opened.
The big problem was that they had several different names.. Waremart, WinCo Foods, and Cub Foods.. You could inadvertently stumble on a trespassing charge without realizing what you had done.. With technology like this it makes this even more likely. The store already uses cameras to follow customers and watch for shoplifting.
As I write this, the bandwidth meter on kernel.org says 34.4 MBit/s
30 seconds after writing this the meter droped to 2kBit/s..
This is why its nice to flame anonymously.. erm.. wait..
by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27, @04:15AM EDT
Good man!
IBM has a new laptop that is awsome for gesture navigation. It is large and heavy, but it opens up with a notebook on one side, and the laptop/monitor on the other. It has both a normal laptop mouse and a pen mouse. The pen mouse can be used on the screen, or on the pad beside the laptop. It comes with a documentation program that allows you to write/draw into the software itsself =) Its _REALLY_ cool... the pen allows you to do gesture type actions just like you where writing them down!
I wonder if Austrailia is going to refuse to give the plane back until we apologize for landing it in there country?
Anything more than the distance.. the military has been using remote controlled planes for quite a while.. During Desert Storm they used remote control planes as spotters for the 16" guns. (Ironically there is video of Iraqi solders surrendering to the remote controlled plane) this recent article have video of them using remote controlled planes to see over the horizon..
That being said.. Its really nice to see the military remove people from dangerous missions.. if the plane crashes then nobody is lost and hopefully a self destruct system kicks in (whoa.. remembering the days of the V1 rockets)
...that I _REALLY_ hate slashdot...
Crusing along at several hundred k a second.. all of a sudden it starts slowly dropping.. down to double digits.. then single digits.. After trying to reconnect a few times I give up and check slashdot.. only to realize.. grumble.. I guess I won't be getting FBSD anytime tonight!
.. how long it will take for somebody to mention tux, IBM and the '"soft" grafitti' option all in one sentence..
...mail this to everybody we know and have them e-mail it to all there friends.. =)
I couldn't have said it better..
"Alright Mr. Anderson, your résumé looks good, and you are more than qualified for the job.. Now please turn your head and cough."