Sounds about right. I wasn't aware of the backup Shuttle plan, however.
Article: "One reason for the cancellation of repairs, Grunsfeld said, was the requirement that a backup space shuttle would have to be primed for launch when a space shuttle was sent to service the Hubble, a requirement set after the Columbia accident. NASA officials decided then that a backup would have to be ready to help any shuttle going anywhere but the International Space Station."
I thought that the Hubble was going to come down because part of the requirements that the Shuttle will ever fly again are that it carries enough fuel to get it to the ISS in an emergency. This puts it onto a very different orbit from the Hubble, throwing out any chance of future repair missions to the Hubble. The Hubble will die before there is any replacement suitable for sending up a standard maintenance mission.
I said he'd announced it, I didn't say it had happened yet, or was guaranteed to happen.
It's my understanding that with the announcement of men on Mars, there was more funding going to NASA. If they use this funding to make a design and build launch vehicle to replace the Shuttle, then at least some progress has been made.
It's fantastic to see that both Rover's have now landed successfully on Mars (with Spirit to become operational again soon:) ).
This, that Colin Pillinger is discussing sending more Beagle II probes up to search for signs of life, and that President Bush has announced man will set foot on Mars within my lifetime, can only be considered good news:)
... being well slept keeps the mind clear? I thought that it was common knowledge, known for many years, well beyond having to experiment in this manner.
I know that if I'm coding, and have been for a while, the old brain does slow down. Normally in those situations, with my alarm set to go off in 4 hours time, I decide to go to sleep. What happens to me is I normally figure out what I was trying to do in those glorious moments when my brain has given up trying to stay in a concious state.
All too often I have to get up and write down my solution before it vanishes forevermore:) Keeping a notepad and pen next to the bed is somewhat handy, if a little sad.
"Enterprise", I'm told at least, did not fit into the pre-Kirk Trek universe and deliberately did not do so. The lame excuse that Rick Berman/Brannon Braga gave for this was that events in "First Contact" caused the timeline to be changed.
One explanation that I've heard is that the series of events that we see in Enterprise are what lead up to the alternate universe we see first in TOS. The original timeline is technically still in place if you buy into that theory.
That's not an explanation as to why why it's nothing spectacular, though.
I give them permission to *see* my work for assessment purposes. They cannot use any software I produce, unless I let them do so. They cannot keep any software I produce.
Glasgow University does put much of the code we submit for normal assessed work through plagiarism detection software, but this is entirely internal, which is different from the story submitter.
The algorithms for detecting similarities between documents are not tricky; I know of at least one guy in my year who is implementing some of them for his final year project.
"The college takes on the roll of an employer her, and has full rights to whatever works you produce."
Don't know about the States, or many other Universities in the UK for that matter, but I do know that as an undergrad Computing student at the University of Glasgow, I am the sole owner of *any* work I produce. It is my intellectual property, and since I created it, I hold copyright on the work too. Technically, nobody else can use it, without my permission.
"How is "plagiarising" any different than reading a book on the subject and writing it in your own wordS?"
Because reading then writing in your own words implies a certain level of learning and understanding in order to do that writing. Straight out copying is cheating, and missing the point of the exercise.
"The title of the next GTA game has been the subject of fevered speculation for months; earlier this week a listing on UK online retailer Amazon.co.uk suggested GTA 4: Sin City, but this has subsequently been found to be incorrect."
In the very same article you link to, they state "US mission commander Michael Foale" and "Russian colleague Alexander Kaleri".
They're quite clear about what they mean, it's just that it's nice to know (as a Brit) that Michael was born somewhere in Britain. After all, it's the British Broadcasting Corporation you linked to, there.
The Monarchy is still here probably because it makes more money for the country than it actually takes out of our taxes used to fund them.
There are a lot of people in the UK who are ignorant of this, and want rid of the monarchs. I say keep 'em as long as tourists want to come over and look at all the castles:)
The `enhanced' sound has been dodgy for years unless there's a piece of card placed carefully under the unit (which has suggested to me for a while that there's a slightly dodgy bit of solder in there somewhere).
That said, I've still got it, and it still runs. It's filled to the brim with 4MB RAM, a 2.5" 170MB internal IDE drive (which the unit was never designed for), and an upgraded serial controller to allow for a 56kbps modem to be connected.
Of all the computers I've owned, it's taken the most abuse, and has definately been the most reliable. Two or three years ago it failed once, due to a dead PSU. Fortunately, I found a replacement quickly and cheaply, and brought it back to life:)
Indeed, that makes perfect sense, and there's no other way that's any more accurate of predicting battery life.
Linux reports my remaining battery life on my laptop relative to the amount of power being consumed at the time. If the load seriously drops moments later (possible, if I'm compiling something), the predicted running time left becomes considerably larger.
Ideally, I suppose, all these things should report "best case", "worst case", and a value within those ranges, predicting for current load. These values would have to then be depend ent on the condition of the battery, and would probably have to keep statistical information over time to keep it's upper and lower bounds in check.
> The Extras like Tabbed Browsing and Pop-up > blocking would just be normal MicroSoft > Innovations TM
So why wouldn't you want credit for the work to go to the Mozilla group? Would anybody really want the situation where Microsoft are falsely credited with that amount of work?
" I don't think there were ever any rules, just common convention."
Common convention in the mid to late 90's was garish colour schemes, scrolling text, blinking text, huge images scaled to fit the author's window; welcome to the personal homepage of the 90's.
Common convention doesn't equal "good". Research into HCI continues, and is a very healthy and active field. These sorts of studies will be taken very seriously by professional web designers (and, more likely, the level of management above them), because the rules presented do normally make sense, and somewhere there should be many statistical papers backing up the claims.
Just because something makes sense doesn't mean it was obvious before you were told it though, and that's why there's an awful lot of ugly websites out there, and many corporate websites that are just plain difficult to navigate.
I deliberately didn't go into the fact that sound, albeit imperceptible to our good selves, can actually travel across space. Mainly because it's sometimes easier just to draw a line and make the distinction between audible and not.
Besides, the story was about people hearing the noise, not highly sensitive electronic equipment.;)
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"That body could never have hit the second shuttle in the first place. It has the same speed as the first shuttle, and since there is no atmosphere to slow him down, it should float alongside it."
If memory serves from the movie, there was an awful lot of stuff floating around on the approach to the asteroid that could have slowed the body down quicker than a shuttle. A couple of strikes from those basketball-sized stones you mention could easily have kicked the body back a little.
That said, there's little point trying to analyse a movie that's clearly not intended to be scientifically accurate.
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Sounds about right. I wasn't aware of the backup Shuttle plan, however.
Article:
"One reason for the cancellation of repairs, Grunsfeld said, was the requirement that a backup space shuttle would have to be primed for launch when a space shuttle was sent to service the Hubble, a requirement set after the Columbia accident. NASA officials decided then that a backup would have to be ready to help any shuttle going anywhere but the International Space Station."
I thought that the Hubble was going to come down because part of the requirements that the Shuttle will ever fly again are that it carries enough fuel to get it to the ISS in an emergency. This puts it onto a very different orbit from the Hubble, throwing out any chance of future repair missions to the Hubble. The Hubble will die before there is any replacement suitable for sending up a standard maintenance mission.
I said he'd announced it, I didn't say it had happened yet, or was guaranteed to happen.
It's my understanding that with the announcement of men on Mars, there was more funding going to NASA. If they use this funding to make a design and build launch vehicle to replace the Shuttle, then at least some progress has been made.
It's fantastic to see that both Rover's have now landed successfully on Mars (with Spirit to become operational again soon :) ).
This, that Colin Pillinger is discussing sending more Beagle II probes up to search for signs of life, and that President Bush has announced man will set foot on Mars within my lifetime, can only be considered good news :)
This sounds all well and good from what's in the article. But what are it's chances for success??
I'm not bashing it at all, I'd really love to see it succeed.
... being well slept keeps the mind clear? I thought that it was common knowledge, known for many years, well beyond having to experiment in this manner.
:) Keeping a notepad and pen next to the bed is somewhat handy, if a little sad.
I know that if I'm coding, and have been for a while, the old brain does slow down. Normally in those situations, with my alarm set to go off in 4 hours time, I decide to go to sleep. What happens to me is I normally figure out what I was trying to do in those glorious moments when my brain has given up trying to stay in a concious state.
All too often I have to get up and write down my solution before it vanishes forevermore
Ok, you have the t-shirt, I'll have the girl in it.
Sound fair? Good.
"Enterprise", I'm told at least, did not fit into the pre-Kirk Trek universe and deliberately did not do so. The lame excuse that Rick Berman/Brannon Braga gave for this was that events in "First Contact" caused the timeline to be changed.
One explanation that I've heard is that the series of events that we see in Enterprise are what lead up to the alternate universe we see first in TOS. The original timeline is technically still in place if you buy into that theory.
That's not an explanation as to why why it's nothing spectacular, though.
I give them permission to *see* my work for assessment purposes. They cannot use any software I produce, unless I let them do so. They cannot keep any software I produce.
Glasgow University does put much of the code we submit for normal assessed work through plagiarism detection software, but this is entirely internal, which is different from the story submitter.
The algorithms for detecting similarities between documents are not tricky; I know of at least one guy in my year who is implementing some of them for his final year project.
"The college takes on the roll of an employer her, and has full rights to whatever works you produce."
Don't know about the States, or many other Universities in the UK for that matter, but I do know that as an undergrad Computing student at the University of Glasgow, I am the sole owner of *any* work I produce. It is my intellectual property, and since I created it, I hold copyright on the work too. Technically, nobody else can use it, without my permission.
"How is "plagiarising" any different than reading a book on the subject and writing it in your own wordS?"
Because reading then writing in your own words implies a certain level of learning and understanding in order to do that writing. Straight out copying is cheating, and missing the point of the exercise.
heck, even my old Atari ST had replaceable ones (and some of them were awesome, they were basically mini-filemanagers).
Selectric was the one I always used. Good to see a picture of the old guy now :)
:: suddenly tempted to fire up STe again ::
Good point, but I was referring more to the "only found time to waste on 2.6.0 over the last few days, so can't waste more on 2.6.1 now" aspect ;)
... it gets released the minute I've installed 2.6.0.
:)
Perhaps I'll wait until at least 2.6.2 before doing it again
The article says:
"The title of the next GTA game has been the subject of fevered speculation for months; earlier this week a listing on UK online retailer Amazon.co.uk suggested GTA 4: Sin City, but this has subsequently been found to be incorrect."
In the very same article you link to, they state "US mission commander Michael Foale" and "Russian colleague Alexander Kaleri".
They're quite clear about what they mean, it's just that it's nice to know (as a Brit) that Michael was born somewhere in Britain. After all, it's the British Broadcasting Corporation you linked to, there.
The Monarchy is still here probably because it makes more money for the country than it actually takes out of our taxes used to fund them.
:)
There are a lot of people in the UK who are ignorant of this, and want rid of the monarchs. I say keep 'em as long as tourists want to come over and look at all the castles
Nit-picking, I know, but ...
I think there are 365.24 days in a year.
It's a leap year if the year is divisible by 4, but not if it's divisible by 100 (unless it's also divisible by 400, hence why 2000 was a leap year).
He did say that.
You're just trying to be a smartarse.
... and Atari 520 STe. I still have it, too.
:)
The `enhanced' sound has been dodgy for years unless there's a piece of card placed carefully under the unit (which has suggested to me for a while that there's a slightly dodgy bit of solder in there somewhere).
That said, I've still got it, and it still runs. It's filled to the brim with 4MB RAM, a 2.5" 170MB internal IDE drive (which the unit was never designed for), and an upgraded serial controller to allow for a 56kbps modem to be connected.
Of all the computers I've owned, it's taken the most abuse, and has definately been the most reliable. Two or three years ago it failed once, due to a dead PSU. Fortunately, I found a replacement quickly and cheaply, and brought it back to life
Indeed, that makes perfect sense, and there's no other way that's any more accurate of predicting battery life.
Linux reports my remaining battery life on my laptop relative to the amount of power being consumed at the time. If the load seriously drops moments later (possible, if I'm compiling something), the predicted running time left becomes considerably larger.
Ideally, I suppose, all these things should report "best case", "worst case", and a value within those ranges, predicting for current load. These values would have to then be depend ent on the condition of the battery, and would probably have to keep statistical information over time to keep it's upper and lower bounds in check.
> The Extras like Tabbed Browsing and Pop-up
> blocking would just be normal MicroSoft
> Innovations TM
So why wouldn't you want credit for the work to go to the Mozilla group? Would anybody really want the situation where Microsoft are falsely credited with that amount of work?
" I don't think there were ever any rules, just common convention."
Common convention in the mid to late 90's was garish colour schemes, scrolling text, blinking text, huge images scaled to fit the author's window; welcome to the personal homepage of the 90's.
Common convention doesn't equal "good". Research into HCI continues, and is a very healthy and active field. These sorts of studies will be taken very seriously by professional web designers (and, more likely, the level of management above them), because the rules presented do normally make sense, and somewhere there should be many statistical papers backing up the claims.
Just because something makes sense doesn't mean it was obvious before you were told it though, and that's why there's an awful lot of ugly websites out there, and many corporate websites that are just plain difficult to navigate.
"No, it's not."
;)
I deliberately didn't go into the fact that sound, albeit imperceptible to our good selves, can actually travel across space. Mainly because it's sometimes easier just to draw a line and make the distinction between audible and not.
Besides, the story was about people hearing the noise, not highly sensitive electronic equipment.
"That body could never have hit the second shuttle in the first place. It has the same speed as the first shuttle, and since there is no atmosphere to slow him down, it should float alongside it."
If memory serves from the movie, there was an awful lot of stuff floating around on the approach to the asteroid that could have slowed the body down quicker than a shuttle. A couple of strikes from those basketball-sized stones you mention could easily have kicked the body back a little.
That said, there's little point trying to analyse a movie that's clearly not intended to be scientifically accurate.