My bet is that the Big Red Switch reset button is under the belly of the rover to protect it. The rover is sitting on it while waiting further instructions...
This one above is somewhat upbeat. The data rate from this last communication went from 10 minutes at 10 bits per second to 20 minutes at 120 bits per second.
Not quite live streaming, but not yet slashdoted either.
A few years back, I wen to work as an in-house software developer into some graphic arts studio (fairly big actually). We were already cramped for space, and ended up sharing the already small office of the VP (~100 employees!).
There was no desk available for me, let alone any place for a desk.
My improvised work space consisted of a 20" monitor BOX, in all it's brown glory, on wich a 13" monitor stood (mine to squint at). The machine was on the floor (the "desk" was too soft for it), and the chair was at the height of the "desk".
Had to work with the keyboard on my knees, and the mouse on some little space provided for the sole purpose of mouse-ing, on the VP's desk.
This went on for 3 months, after wich the company moved into more spacious premises, when I eventually had my own office. My window gave view to a large lot of grass, trees, flowers and... tombstones.
Swell.
When I changed job, some 4 years later, my new employer was, too, located in front of another cemetery. Fate was set.
Yeah. Down is the way to go. Although it went down too fast and presumably crashed, the European mission had a digging tool. Ironic, still.
On the other hand, when I was a kid, I too went on a trek to find life. It didn't take long to realise that plenty of it could be found only by turning rocks over.
Has NASA thought about tuning some rocks over? Seriously. It would be interesting to find a large boulder and roll it off to see what's underneath.
In the wake of the Challenger and Columbia disasters, there was such a loud outcry and long delays because NASA has to do everything it can to make space a safe place for people. Loss of life is simply unacceptable for us "civilized" westernerns.
It's not so much that lives were lost for the sake of discovery.
The outcry was more about the fact that these lives could have been saved 2 different ways, as outlined in the final tragedy report.
Although quite difficult, both another vehicle launch and a prolonged stay in space could have been done. The mere fact that NASA refused USAF photos of the underbelly of the shuttle shows how much incompetence was at the helm of the entire program.
I've always told my GF that if I was ever given a one-way tocket to Mars, even the Moon, i'd accept it.
For as long as I have a long chair, a six pack and a bag of pretzels.
I imagine myself dying a gentle carbon monoxide death watching the sunset after the most incredible journey one could ever make and having spent a couple of days at the most unimaginable place of all.
According to the rover spec sheet, the lander uses a radiation-hardened version of the PowerPC processor.
See page 45, last paragraph, of the linked PDF. For those PDF weinies out there, here's what it reads:
The computer in each Mars Exploration Rover runs with a 32-bit Rad 6000 microprocessor, a radiation-hardened version of the PowerPC chip used in some models of Macintosh computers, operating at a speed of 20 million instructions per second. Onboard memory includes 128 megabytes of random access memory, augmented by 256 megabytes of flash memory and smaller amounts of other non-volatile memory, which allows the system to retain data even without power.
Cores just aren't reliable to contain themselves in the case of a fatal disfunction. They can't be constructed sturdy enough. Now now. not in 400 years from now.
This is proven. Just ask yourself: just how many times did Laforge had to jettison the core?
If scientists can make a stainless steel car fly and leap back in time at only 88mphs out of a banana peel and a mostly-empty can of beer, they can and SHOULD go ahead with "nucular" space crafts.
If people can believe we have designed black boxes that survive being slammed into the Pennsylvania crust at 400 mph
An object the size of a shoe box (big shoes) that weight roughtly 30 pounds, slamming at 400mph, is not the same as a truck-size object weighting 30 tons at the same speed.
The lighter object's mass can easily be dealt with, whereas a 30 ton mass requires significantly more energy to bring to a stop.
This is another stupid law designed to take away our liberties.
It also reminds me a time where I was passenger in my friend's car (who was driving). We were on our way back from a small local Apple trade show. I was playing Falcon, the F16 flight simulator on our way back--I was quite an addict of that game back them.
Quite suddenly, I lost control of the plane and the computer, an Apple PowerBook 160, was yelling at me "Pull up! Pull up!".
The car crashed on the center girder of the highway at precisely the same time the F16 crashed on the ground. The plane was a total wreck. The car was considerably dammaged and both my friend and I were totally surprised to realize what had just happend, while massaging our sore necks.
When the computer started yelling at me, it distracted my friend some more, wich was peeking one in a while at the screen. When he finally pulled up his eyes from the screen, he saw the traffic ahead in a dead stop, stomped the brake and steered the car clear of the cars in front of us, steering right into the girder.
Stupid laws that take away our liberties also take away our chances at being total idiots and maiming ourselves the fun way. Never had Falcon been that dramatic before.
There's no way, unless videotaped or via some sort of audio record of your wrongdoings, to prove that you intentionally and wilfully acquired something illegal.
It is, however, your responsibility to ascertain that acquired merchandise is owned by the provider.
However, due to the previous item, you can not be liable for acquiring a product that was wrongfully acquired by the provider.
An example of this is buying a packaged CD or a pair of jeans at a flea market. You're buying it in good faith (aka, exchanging money for it) from a reseller wich assures your it's original, top-quality stuff.
Said CD might very well be a cheap duplicate (often the case) or contraband (counterfeited) brand pair of jeans.
The buyer can't be held responsible, but the seller is responsible for having resold something that was not legal.
If caught, the buyer would have to hand over the bought merchandise (usually to serve as evidence, then destroyed) and the seller would face criminal charges.
If, however, the buyer actually resells the stuff, he becomes as guilty as the original seller, for it is his duty to make sure, before reselling, that the merchandise was genuine.
This same process applies to P2P music.
The down-loader can not be held responsible for downloading an illegal song file wich he acquired from an up-loader. Said up-loader must make sure, before uploading the song, that he has the rights to do so. The down-loader can't be held responsible if the up-loader didn't have the rights, because he's not in a position to know (I mean, legally... but we all know that's crock).
Apple has no experience when it comes to the world of Unix security.
Er... this Mac OS X that Apple has... including all of it's developers... actually are NeXT's OpenStep (and NeXTSTEP before that) and NeXT employees that built the thing in the first place. In the late 80s.
Apple's got a pretty good idea of how Unix works.
There have been exploits found in Apache before. That does not imply Apache developers don't have a clue about web servers.
So, if an exploit has been found, it's only because it wasn't found before. There has been exploits for Linux, and I'm sure there will be more, like there will be more Mac OS X exploits to be found.
It's how Apple and the Linux community handles found exploits that matters. And how MS doesn't. unfortunately.
Actually, Steve Jobs himself said that Apple doesn't make a dime per song with ITMS.
The service pays for itself, but any money Apple gets out of it pays for maintenance, infrastructure and bandwidth.
Where Apple gains, with ITMS, is in iPod sales that ITMS generates, and the increased mindshare of Win users that have started to look more at the Apple brand for what it can offer, other than QuickTime.
If you've been on a corporate network with just a few Macs like I have, the sudden explosion of iTunes software running on Windows in the subnet appearing in music sharing list is amazing. Suddenly, 5 times as many people on the subnet are using--every day-- Apple branded software and (in some case) hardware.
ITMS and the iPod have been labeled the best marketing trojan horses any company could have thought of to increase it's mindshare.
You quit your job because of 10,000 lines of code?
Sheesh. Out of the 35,000+ SOURCE FILES I need to deal with, some of those have that many lines of sources.
With that sheer volume, comments yield good hints as to how things work, but still, you inevitably need to read and picture out the sources to gain real a understanding.
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'Hands' are used to measure the height at the withers of a horse. ...must... refrain... from... jockey... hand... job... joke...
My bet is that the Big Red Switch reset button is under the belly of the rover to protect it. The rover is sitting on it while waiting further instructions...
By increasing the digit at then of of this http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2004/30.cfm, you can get more news.
This one above is somewhat upbeat. The data rate from this last communication went from 10 minutes at 10 bits per second to 20 minutes at 120 bits per second.
Not quite live streaming, but not yet slashdoted either.
no game dev shop has ever been willing to produce a "game" which is so stupendously difficult to learn
Falcon is no game. It's a simulator. Compare MicroSlush Flight Simulator (add weaponry and far more realism).
Oppose Starfighter.
A few years back, I wen to work as an in-house software developer into some graphic arts studio (fairly big actually). We were already cramped for space, and ended up sharing the already small office of the VP (~100 employees!).
There was no desk available for me, let alone any place for a desk.
My improvised work space consisted of a 20" monitor BOX, in all it's brown glory, on wich a 13" monitor stood (mine to squint at). The machine was on the floor (the "desk" was too soft for it), and the chair was at the height of the "desk".
Had to work with the keyboard on my knees, and the mouse on some little space provided for the sole purpose of mouse-ing, on the VP's desk.
This went on for 3 months, after wich the company moved into more spacious premises, when I eventually had my own office. My window gave view to a large lot of grass, trees, flowers and... tombstones.
Swell.
When I changed job, some 4 years later, my new employer was, too, located in front of another cemetery. Fate was set.
Typically, though, insects and worms like to stay under rocks (on Earth at least).
The cover provides cover from the elements (wind, direct sunlight and cold, provided the rock retain enough warmth during the day).
Looking for bacteria or, of all things, worm-like simple organisms under small rocks and boulder might be a fair and easy attempt.
Perhaps, if we're really really lucky, we'll find a door bell under a rock. Figuratively speaking, of course.
Yeah. Down is the way to go. Although it went down too fast and presumably crashed, the European mission had a digging tool. Ironic, still.
On the other hand, when I was a kid, I too went on a trek to find life. It didn't take long to realise that plenty of it could be found only by turning rocks over.
Has NASA thought about tuning some rocks over? Seriously. It would be interesting to find a large boulder and roll it off to see what's underneath.
Oracle does support KHTML.
The marketroids folks might not know it, but the fact is that it just plains work. At least with Apple's Safari, wich is KHTML.
(Safari, BTW, is a dedicated-to target on Mac OS X, at least for the OCS product line).
In the wake of the Challenger and Columbia disasters, there was such a loud outcry and long delays because NASA has to do everything it can to make space a safe place for people. Loss of life is simply unacceptable for us "civilized" westernerns.
It's not so much that lives were lost for the sake of discovery.
The outcry was more about the fact that these lives could have been saved 2 different ways, as outlined in the final tragedy report.
Although quite difficult, both another vehicle launch and a prolonged stay in space could have been done. The mere fact that NASA refused USAF photos of the underbelly of the shuttle shows how much incompetence was at the helm of the entire program.
I've always told my GF that if I was ever given a one-way tocket to Mars, even the Moon, i'd accept it.
For as long as I have a long chair, a six pack and a bag of pretzels.
I imagine myself dying a gentle carbon monoxide death watching the sunset after the most incredible journey one could ever make and having spent a couple of days at the most unimaginable place of all.
Sign me up. Please!
Wallets of Mass Destructions?
According to the rover spec sheet, the lander uses a radiation-hardened version of the PowerPC processor.
See page 45, last paragraph, of the linked PDF. For those PDF weinies out there, here's what it reads:
The computer in each Mars Exploration Rover runs with a 32-bit Rad 6000 microprocessor, a radiation-hardened version of the PowerPC chip used in some models of Macintosh computers, operating at a speed of 20 million instructions per second. Onboard memory includes 128 megabytes of random access memory, augmented by 256 megabytes of flash memory and smaller amounts of other non-volatile memory, which allows the system to retain data even without power.
Pff. Ignore the mere possibility.
Cores just aren't reliable to contain themselves in the case of a fatal disfunction. They can't be constructed sturdy enough. Now now. not in 400 years from now.
This is proven. Just ask yourself: just how many times did Laforge had to jettison the core?
If scientists can make a stainless steel car fly and leap back in time at only 88mphs out of a banana peel and a mostly-empty can of beer, they can and SHOULD go ahead with "nucular" space crafts.
If people can believe we have designed black boxes that survive being slammed into the Pennsylvania crust at 400 mph
An object the size of a shoe box (big shoes) that weight roughtly 30 pounds, slamming at 400mph, is not the same as a truck-size object weighting 30 tons at the same speed.
The lighter object's mass can easily be dealt with, whereas a 30 ton mass requires significantly more energy to bring to a stop.
I would if Slashdot would make an SCO-specific filter.
Two million people.
An it she's not sporting *mini* iPods either.
Must be the 36d ^H^H^H 40g model...
The G5 also has an analog audio in port: G5 specs.
This is another stupid law designed to take away our liberties.
It also reminds me a time where I was passenger in my friend's car (who was driving). We were on our way back from a small local Apple trade show. I was playing Falcon, the F16 flight simulator on our way back--I was quite an addict of that game back them.
Quite suddenly, I lost control of the plane and the computer, an Apple PowerBook 160, was yelling at me "Pull up! Pull up!".
The car crashed on the center girder of the highway at precisely the same time the F16 crashed on the ground. The plane was a total wreck. The car was considerably dammaged and both my friend and I were totally surprised to realize what had just happend, while massaging our sore necks.
When the computer started yelling at me, it distracted my friend some more, wich was peeking one in a while at the screen. When he finally pulled up his eyes from the screen, he saw the traffic ahead in a dead stop, stomped the brake and steered the car clear of the cars in front of us, steering right into the girder.
Stupid laws that take away our liberties also take away our chances at being total idiots and maiming ourselves the fun way. Never had Falcon been that dramatic before.
But.. how can half of a 2 way process be illegal?
Jurisprudence.
There's no way, unless videotaped or via some sort of audio record of your wrongdoings, to prove that you intentionally and wilfully acquired something illegal.
It is, however, your responsibility to ascertain that acquired merchandise is owned by the provider.
However, due to the previous item, you can not be liable for acquiring a product that was wrongfully acquired by the provider.
An example of this is buying a packaged CD or a pair of jeans at a flea market. You're buying it in good faith (aka, exchanging money for it) from a reseller wich assures your it's original, top-quality stuff.
Said CD might very well be a cheap duplicate (often the case) or contraband (counterfeited) brand pair of jeans.
The buyer can't be held responsible, but the seller is responsible for having resold something that was not legal.
If caught, the buyer would have to hand over the bought merchandise (usually to serve as evidence, then destroyed) and the seller would face criminal charges.
If, however, the buyer actually resells the stuff, he becomes as guilty as the original seller, for it is his duty to make sure, before reselling, that the merchandise was genuine.
This same process applies to P2P music.
The down-loader can not be held responsible for downloading an illegal song file wich he acquired from an up-loader. Said up-loader must make sure, before uploading the song, that he has the rights to do so. The down-loader can't be held responsible if the up-loader didn't have the rights, because he's not in a position to know (I mean, legally... but we all know that's crock).
Apple has no experience when it comes to the world of Unix security.
Er... this Mac OS X that Apple has... including all of it's developers... actually are NeXT's OpenStep (and NeXTSTEP before that) and NeXT employees that built the thing in the first place. In the late 80s.
Apple's got a pretty good idea of how Unix works.
There have been exploits found in Apache before. That does not imply Apache developers don't have a clue about web servers.
So, if an exploit has been found, it's only because it wasn't found before. There has been exploits for Linux, and I'm sure there will be more, like there will be more Mac OS X exploits to be found.
It's how Apple and the Linux community handles found exploits that matters. And how MS doesn't. unfortunately.
Actually, Steve Jobs himself said that Apple doesn't make a dime per song with ITMS.
The service pays for itself, but any money Apple gets out of it pays for maintenance, infrastructure and bandwidth.
Where Apple gains, with ITMS, is in iPod sales that ITMS generates, and the increased mindshare of Win users that have started to look more at the Apple brand for what it can offer, other than QuickTime.
If you've been on a corporate network with just a few Macs like I have, the sudden explosion of iTunes software running on Windows in the subnet appearing in music sharing list is amazing. Suddenly, 5 times as many people on the subnet are using--every day-- Apple branded software and (in some case) hardware.
ITMS and the iPod have been labeled the best marketing trojan horses any company could have thought of to increase it's mindshare.
You quit your job because of 10,000 lines of code?
Sheesh. Out of the 35,000+ SOURCE FILES I need to deal with, some of those have that many lines of sources.
With that sheer volume, comments yield good hints as to how things work, but still, you inevitably need to read and picture out the sources to gain real a understanding.