Here is a pdf file discussing the requirements, hopefully new computer processing techniques will lighten the job, although I'm aware it won't be easy. I might have to join up with a local club. Nevertheless I believe that new techniques will be searched for to ease the receiving requirements. During the last years, low-power transmitting is a real hype, people are making connections around the globe with milliwatts(!!) of transmitting power.
Aha, an other HAM satellite! Don't forget HAMs will be able to recieve data from Mars if this mission succeeds. (ok, at 5 baud or so, but an interesting project nonetheless, and a reason for me to get a license.
PDA's are just another gadget that gets outdated after a year. Maybe I'm growing old/less competetive, but I don't want to buy these new thingies all the time.
"How long will it last?" is the first question I ask myself, and the faster it will be outdated, the less money I'm willing to spend on it. My previous computer was a dual PII, it cost me a fortune but that money is gone. My last PC was a cheap AMD homemade, it works fine and with the money I saved I bought a telescope. I've always wanted one, and a telescope can last much longer than a PC that loses it's value instantly.
I would have set up all the people who came to me for computer advice with OSX, I hear nothing than praise about it's user-friendlyness, but I have never used it myself. I will not be able to help them if they get into troubles. And I'm not buying a Mac to be able to help someone else, it's way too expensive for that (however, someone has contacted me with an offer for a very cheap P-P-Powerbook;)).
(I use Debian myself but don't recommend it to computer illiterates).
Why only consider movies? Suppose you have made a product and you want to write a manual. You can take the CAD schematics and turn it into a "pencil drawing" to identify the parts/buttons/whatever. It looks nice and you can print it in B&W!
But wouldn't that break documents with embedded spreadsheats, or possibly even plain tables? All these applications are pretty integrated. And that's a good thing.
It's very addictive, too; *everyone* I invited to play this game has bought it. *Everyone*. Be warned.
The nice part of the game is that you're always busy; even when it's not your turn you receive resources, you can trade with other players (although you can only trade with the person who's turn it is). The constant interactions suck you into the game, you're not waiting 80% of the time for your turn.
Also, with games like Risk you can lose early in the game, with Catan this rarely happens. Put all this together and you have a perfect recipe to spend a fun evening with some friends.
True, the first amateur satellite was launched 4 years after Sputnik. If I look at HAM-operators or amateur astronomers, even at linux, the most striking to me is the good connections between the the amateurs and the professionals. In astronomy, amateurs help observing variable stars for example. Amateur HAMS have been able to launch their satellites, and are even represented aboard the ISS (ARISS).
What do amateurs have that professionals have not? Time. They have the freedom to peer at a star night after night when professionals would have to buy valuable observation time.
I don't even call it Linux, I call it Debian. It just implies the GNU system, and hints strongly towards Linux (ok, it *could* be Hurd, but someone in that case probably would mention it explicitely). It's just human speech compression, you rely on the receiving end having a brain. It has nothing to do with ideology, only with a healthy laziness.
To quote this article to give an idea of the amounts data we get: "The Mars Orbiter Camera's narrow-angle camera has now examined nearly 4.5 percent of Mars' surface, including extensive imaging of candidate and selected landing sites for surface missions."
4.5 percent! At high resolution, a reasonably small area can rapidly contain lots of pixels, for example if we were to image a 20kmx20km area *known* to hold the lander, that would mean 400 million pixels at 1m/pixel, or 1.6 billion at 0.5m/pixel. Oh, and you want multiple sun-angles, too. And you can only send about 20 megabytes/day, if I'm correct. Such an endevour could easily take a year, and for what?
And in any case, if anyone should be looking for Beatle2 it should be Mars Express. Not that I wouldn't appreciate it, but as a European I don't see the use of asking NASA to find a failed probe for us. Just let it rest in peace, and build a next one, one that reports back during landing.
The image shows shows spirit on the crater rim, that's something like sol 90 iirc (spirit is now at sol 260). So why did it take so long to get the image? Were they stored on-board for months? Were they processed for months? This is not a flame, I'm genuinly curous:).
Anyway, I hope that Mars Express will give it a try, too.
I totally agree. The biggest risk I see is a flashmob organised by terrorists (your mission: find and follow the yellow bomb^H^H^H^H truck. Your friend, Osama.).
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Here is a pdf file discussing the requirements, hopefully new computer processing techniques will lighten the job, although I'm aware it won't be easy. I might have to join up with a local club. Nevertheless I believe that new techniques will be searched for to ease the receiving requirements. During the last years, low-power transmitting is a real hype, people are making connections around the globe with milliwatts(!!) of transmitting power.
Indeed, you don't, but I have to learn how, so.. Sorry for the confusion.
Wait until he finds out that the sentence "Read this summary for more details" gives it away.
Note that if he was less of a hypocrit, it would read "Read this summary for the same details but with lots of ads that make me rich."
Aha, an other HAM satellite! Don't forget HAMs will be able to recieve data from Mars if this mission succeeds. (ok, at 5 baud or so, but an interesting project nonetheless, and a reason for me to get a license.
I'm enjoying my telescope very much, thank you.
Feel free to blame me and my reluctance to be a sheepish consumer. ;)
There once was a time when journalists asked questions instead of quoting press releases..
PDA's are just another gadget that gets outdated after a year. Maybe I'm growing old/less competetive, but I don't want to buy these new thingies all the time.
"How long will it last?" is the first question I ask myself, and the faster it will be outdated, the less money I'm willing to spend on it. My previous computer was a dual PII, it cost me a fortune but that money is gone. My last PC was a cheap AMD homemade, it works fine and with the money I saved I bought a telescope. I've always wanted one, and a telescope can last much longer than a PC that loses it's value instantly.
I would have set up all the people who came to me for computer advice with OSX, I hear nothing than praise about it's user-friendlyness, but I have never used it myself. I will not be able to help them if they get into troubles. And I'm not buying a Mac to be able to help someone else, it's way too expensive for that (however, someone has contacted me with an offer for a very cheap P-P-Powerbook ;)).
(I use Debian myself but don't recommend it to computer illiterates).
Why only consider movies? Suppose you have made a product and you want to write a manual. You can take the CAD schematics and turn it into a "pencil drawing" to identify the parts/buttons/whatever. It looks nice and you can print it in B&W!
WINDMILLS DON'T WORK THAT WAY!
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But wouldn't that break documents with embedded spreadsheats, or possibly even plain tables? All these applications are pretty integrated. And that's a good thing.
It's very addictive, too; *everyone* I invited to play this game has bought it. *Everyone*. Be warned.
The nice part of the game is that you're always busy; even when it's not your turn you receive resources, you can trade with other players (although you can only trade with the person who's turn it is). The constant interactions suck you into the game, you're not waiting 80% of the time for your turn.
Also, with games like Risk you can lose early in the game, with Catan this rarely happens. Put all this together and you have a perfect recipe to spend a fun evening with some friends.
They really should recapture that video, the "hi-res" version circling the net isn't really that hi-res by current standards.
FYI, I found it here
Police: Half a ton of dynamite should do the trick..
You: OMG, it's the freak who tried to blow up the whale!
If they can make it a bit smaller, it would make a wondeful vacuum cleaner! I mean, a REAL vacuum cleaner.
True, the first amateur satellite was launched 4 years after Sputnik. If I look at HAM-operators or amateur astronomers, even at linux, the most striking to me is the good connections between the the amateurs and the professionals. In astronomy, amateurs help observing variable stars for example. Amateur HAMS have been able to launch their satellites, and are even represented aboard the ISS (ARISS).
What do amateurs have that professionals have not? Time. They have the freedom to peer at a star night after night when professionals would have to buy valuable observation time.
remember when 2400 baud dial-up was charged by the minute?
No, my wallet just had a spasm though.
1995, wasn't I bragging about my new hyperfast P90 around that time? That's still the stone-age! How long does it remain valid??
I don't even call it Linux, I call it Debian. It just implies the GNU system, and hints strongly towards Linux (ok, it *could* be Hurd, but someone in that case probably would mention it explicitely). It's just human speech compression, you rely on the receiving end having a brain. It has nothing to do with ideology, only with a healthy laziness.
To quote this article to give an idea of the amounts data we get:
"The Mars Orbiter Camera's narrow-angle camera has now examined nearly 4.5 percent of Mars' surface, including extensive imaging of candidate and selected landing sites for surface missions."
4.5 percent! At high resolution, a reasonably small area can rapidly contain lots of pixels, for example if we were to image a 20kmx20km area *known* to hold the lander, that would mean 400 million pixels at 1m/pixel, or 1.6 billion at 0.5m/pixel. Oh, and you want multiple sun-angles, too. And you can only send about 20 megabytes/day, if I'm correct. Such an endevour could easily take a year, and for what?
And in any case, if anyone should be looking for Beatle2 it should be Mars Express. Not that I wouldn't appreciate it, but as a European I don't see the use of asking NASA to find a failed probe for us. Just let it rest in peace, and build a next one, one that reports back during landing.
The image shows shows spirit on the crater rim, that's something like sol 90 iirc (spirit is now at sol 260). So why did it take so long to get the image? Were they stored on-board for months? Were they processed for months? This is not a flame, I'm genuinly curous :).
Anyway, I hope that Mars Express will give it a try, too.
Didn't you hear the news? MS has outsourced all evilness to SCO!
I totally agree. The biggest risk I see is a flashmob organised by terrorists (your mission: find and follow the yellow bomb^H^H^H^H truck. Your friend, Osama.).
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