They didn't used to be, but if they're making the news for suing a competitor, instead of making the news for releasing products that compete, it kind of makes me wonder.
Full Disclosure: I own 1 Nokia and 1 iPhone, and have in the past owned 4 other Nokias, 1 Sony-Ericsson, and 1 Palm Treo.
The Chinese paper refers to effectiveness at 18GHz, which just so happens to be in the "K" band of radar frequencies. You know, the one police like to use.
So all these guys need to do is make a dashboard- or grille-mounted radar absorber to obsolete the radar detector and they'll be so rich they'll forget their ultimate goal of destroying the world or whatever.
What aallan said - although, 2015? I thought the big projects (LSST, EELT, TMT) were all setting a 2018 target now.
I went to a talk a month and a half ago by LSST's lead camera scientist (Steve Kahn) and LSST is at this point very much vaporware (as in, they've got some of the money, and some of the parts, but are nowhere near having all the money or having it all built.) Even Pan-STARRS, which is only supposed to crank out 10TB a night, only has 1 of 4 planned scopes built (they're building a second), and has been having optical quality problems with that one. By the time kids born at the turn of the century are leaving high school, though, yes, we do expect things like these to be up and running.
But at the risk of sounding like that one college that publishes a list every year of what the freshman class of that year does and doesn't know, kids born around the turn of the century (my daughter is one) don't have the "OMG a TB!" mentality that we grownups have. The smallest capacity hard-drive my daughter will probably remember was 5 gigs - and that was in an iPod. Things like 64-bit, gigahertz speeds, multiprocessing, fast ethernet, wifi, home broadband... always been there. DVD-R media has, to her knowledge, always been there. (I did once have to explain to her that CDs used to be the size of platters and made of black plastic, after she found some Queensrÿche vinyl.)
She's ten now, and you can put a half-terabyte or more in a laptop, so while the idea of some big scientific project spitting out 50 or 60 laptops worth of data in a night is clearly a lot of data, it's not something that can't be envisioned.
Is this just NASA-speak for "We haven't analyzed the data yet but we wanted to make some sort of comment anyways"?
Yeah, it's standard boilerplate, probably defined verbatim in some policy manual somewhere.:)
I was on Mauna Kea for the impact. Didn't detect anything visible from the parking lot of the Visitor Station (though I confess I haven't zoomed in on all 2,000+ images and however many video frames I got...) but they had a communications center set up at the mid-level facility, with one of the science PI's for the mission there, and all indications are that the spectroscopic data is really where it's at.
And yes, of course, spectroscopic data actually has to be analyzed.
I'll be at the Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station, either looking through their scopes (14-16") or trying to get some pictures with my cameras. Unfortunately, my shift up on the summit ended Wednesday morning, so I have no excuse (or desire, really) to go up top. I might wander up to the LCROSS comms center at Hale Pohaku at some point, though.
Apple's high customer satisfaction rating isn't due to their products never having problems - it's also due to them usually being good about it when their products do have problems. I had a couple problems with a black Macbook (a bad Airport card, and cracks on the top case) that were fixed on a walk-in basis by their retail store "Genius Bars" in under 20 minutes each. Toward the end of its warranty, I shipped it in for a thing or two since I wasn't near any stores (and had picked up its aluminum successor) and they actually fixed/replaced a whole bunch of stuff I wasn't even aware of.
Not to say that I haven't had a gripe or two with their service in the 8 years I've owned stuff from them - but usually they're quite good.
Your local arts and crafts store should have acid-free DVDs specifically for things like this (and storing digital scrapbooks of that trip to Arizona with the grandkids.)
The target became a lot more visible at impact, due to a bunch of dust being kicked up (and reflecting sunlight).
The moon (around last quarter) will not particularly become more visible since it's a much bigger target than any dust cloud LCROSS might kick up - but maybe scoeps looking at the right part will see something.
Stars emit their own light; the moon doesn't. We have a good idea of what's on the surface (from spectroscopy, and of course sample-return missions) but we want to know what lies a little bit beneath it, so we're trying to kick up some dust.
Same approach that NASA's "Deep Impact" mission took in 2005. I got to see that one, but LCROSS is scheduled during my days off... makes me a sad, forlorn telescope operator.;) Maybe I can go volunteer that night and try to get a look at it through a 16-inch or something.
In general, Apple having more than a tiny sliver of market share in anything still kind of weirds me out...
I'm also still a little startled to see Microsoft products not run roughshod over market segments despite sucking (Windows Mobile devices, PlaysForSure, Zune, and to a lesser extent X-Box).
Anybody else here grow up during the 70s? 80s? 90s? Anybody else find the idea of Apple being any kind of force in gaming utterly bizarre?
Not saying it won't happen, or that Apple can't be a force in whatever field... but this is like "Ferrari, Lamborghini Worry Over Growing Competition From Oldsmobile" or something.
It's a little hard to determine whether this is actually about discrete multicore systems, or heterogenous clusters. Sure, a single conventional machine is likely to have both CPU and GPU, but it's less likely to have x86_64, x86 and CPUs. So to some extent, I suspect heterogenous clusters. In the case of a single box, this would come across as a massive prototyping effort simply to avoid supporting an open-tracked standard (OpenCL).
I'd like to think that it was less USB-IF being beholden to Apple, and more USB-IF being beholden to their own rules, which Palm agreed to when they joined... but that would be far too sensible.:(
I was thinking about buying some property in Puna (Nanawale area) do you happen to know what kind of DSL (or cable modem if its even available) speeds are available down there?
Not sure. Pahoa (the nearest town) should have a CO, which should be DSL-equipped; if youre within wire length limit distance of that, you could get DSL. Time Warner will run cable basically anywhere, but if it's not already in front of your property, you pay per pole they have to run it to get it to you.
Slashdot Mirror
WebOS, Android and iPhone OS look to be fixin' to eat Symbian's lunch... will open-sourcing things make a difference?
That's no eagle claw, it's just the way Wikus's hand grew back, you insensitive MNU clods.
Is nokia a patent troll?
They didn't used to be, but if they're making the news for suing a competitor, instead of making the news for releasing products that compete, it kind of makes me wonder.
Full Disclosure: I own 1 Nokia and 1 iPhone, and have in the past owned 4 other Nokias, 1 Sony-Ericsson, and 1 Palm Treo.
Do it with 48kbps AAC vs. 160kbps AAC, or 48kbps OGG vs. 160kbps OGG, and you might have something meaningful.
Or, 48kbps AAC vs. 48kbps OGG, and 160kbps AAC vs. 160kbps OGG, if you want a flamewar...
The Chinese paper refers to effectiveness at 18GHz, which just so happens to be in the "K" band of radar frequencies. You know, the one police like to use.
So all these guys need to do is make a dashboard- or grille-mounted radar absorber to obsolete the radar detector and they'll be so rich they'll forget their ultimate goal of destroying the world or whatever.
I'm amazed by this, having grown up in New Jersey and moved to Hawaii. Props to my home state.
What aallan said - although, 2015? I thought the big projects (LSST, EELT, TMT) were all setting a 2018 target now.
I went to a talk a month and a half ago by LSST's lead camera scientist (Steve Kahn) and LSST is at this point very much vaporware (as in, they've got some of the money, and some of the parts, but are nowhere near having all the money or having it all built.) Even Pan-STARRS, which is only supposed to crank out 10TB a night, only has 1 of 4 planned scopes built (they're building a second), and has been having optical quality problems with that one. By the time kids born at the turn of the century are leaving high school, though, yes, we do expect things like these to be up and running.
But at the risk of sounding like that one college that publishes a list every year of what the freshman class of that year does and doesn't know, kids born around the turn of the century (my daughter is one) don't have the "OMG a TB!" mentality that we grownups have. The smallest capacity hard-drive my daughter will probably remember was 5 gigs - and that was in an iPod. Things like 64-bit, gigahertz speeds, multiprocessing, fast ethernet, wifi, home broadband... always been there. DVD-R media has, to her knowledge, always been there. (I did once have to explain to her that CDs used to be the size of platters and made of black plastic, after she found some Queensrÿche vinyl.)
She's ten now, and you can put a half-terabyte or more in a laptop, so while the idea of some big scientific project spitting out 50 or 60 laptops worth of data in a night is clearly a lot of data, it's not something that can't be envisioned.
Is this just NASA-speak for "We haven't analyzed the data yet but we wanted to make some sort of comment anyways"?
Yeah, it's standard boilerplate, probably defined verbatim in some policy manual somewhere. :)
I was on Mauna Kea for the impact. Didn't detect anything visible from the parking lot of the Visitor Station (though I confess I haven't zoomed in on all 2,000+ images and however many video frames I got...) but they had a communications center set up at the mid-level facility, with one of the science PI's for the mission there, and all indications are that the spectroscopic data is really where it's at.
And yes, of course, spectroscopic data actually has to be analyzed.
First NASA spacecraft to slam into the moon was Ranger 4 in 1962.
Of course, back then they didn't crash-land on purpose... ;)
I'll be at the Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station, either looking through their scopes (14-16") or trying to get some pictures with my cameras. Unfortunately, my shift up on the summit ended Wednesday morning, so I have no excuse (or desire, really) to go up top. I might wander up to the LCROSS comms center at Hale Pohaku at some point, though.
Apple's high customer satisfaction rating isn't due to their products never having problems - it's also due to them usually being good about it when their products do have problems. I had a couple problems with a black Macbook (a bad Airport card, and cracks on the top case) that were fixed on a walk-in basis by their retail store "Genius Bars" in under 20 minutes each. Toward the end of its warranty, I shipped it in for a thing or two since I wasn't near any stores (and had picked up its aluminum successor) and they actually fixed/replaced a whole bunch of stuff I wasn't even aware of.
Not to say that I haven't had a gripe or two with their service in the 8 years I've owned stuff from them - but usually they're quite good.
The Swordfish Net N102
So if you take a couple Hollywood movies about hackers and that kind of stuff, and shove the names together, voila! Colombian computer.
Personally, I'm holding out for their upcoming Tron Matrix laptop. I hear the graphics are really good.
...on my own personal iPhone. Why? Well, it's easier than remembering how to hook it up to the 5 Google calendars I need it to sync and edit...
Yeah. Just one phone. I don't have to be a big corporation to find tools like that useful.
This makes me evil, right?
Your local arts and crafts store should have acid-free DVDs specifically for things like this (and storing digital scrapbooks of that trip to Arizona with the grandkids.)
The target became a lot more visible at impact, due to a bunch of dust being kicked up (and reflecting sunlight).
The moon (around last quarter) will not particularly become more visible since it's a much bigger target than any dust cloud LCROSS might kick up - but maybe scoeps looking at the right part will see something.
Stars emit their own light; the moon doesn't. We have a good idea of what's on the surface (from spectroscopy, and of course sample-return missions) but we want to know what lies a little bit beneath it, so we're trying to kick up some dust.
Same approach that NASA's "Deep Impact" mission took in 2005. I got to see that one, but LCROSS is scheduled during my days off... makes me a sad, forlorn telescope operator. ;) Maybe I can go volunteer that night and try to get a look at it through a 16-inch or something.
Yes, all that.
In general, Apple having more than a tiny sliver of market share in anything still kind of weirds me out...
I'm also still a little startled to see Microsoft products not run roughshod over market segments despite sucking (Windows Mobile devices, PlaysForSure, Zune, and to a lesser extent X-Box).
Anybody else here grow up during the 70s? 80s? 90s? Anybody else find the idea of Apple being any kind of force in gaming utterly bizarre?
Not saying it won't happen, or that Apple can't be a force in whatever field... but this is like "Ferrari, Lamborghini Worry Over Growing Competition From Oldsmobile" or something.
Sounds nice. Where can I get that in click-and-drool form for my home WLAN? :)
The theory seems to be to try to pretend that all multi-core systems are clusters and write an OS based on that.
Ouch.
Logically, step 1 is: Each core runs its own instance of the OS.
Yeah, let us know how that works out for you, Microsoft. :)
It's a little hard to determine whether this is actually about discrete multicore systems, or heterogenous clusters. Sure, a single conventional machine is likely to have both CPU and GPU, but it's less likely to have x86_64, x86 and CPUs. So to some extent, I suspect heterogenous clusters. In the case of a single box, this would come across as a massive prototyping effort simply to avoid supporting an open-tracked standard (OpenCL).
I'd like to think that it was less USB-IF being beholden to Apple, and more USB-IF being beholden to their own rules, which Palm agreed to when they joined... but that would be far too sensible. :(
What biosafety level (if any) is the lab?
How quickly can they retrofit it to be the next level up?
I was thinking about buying some property in Puna (Nanawale area) do you happen to know what kind of DSL (or cable modem if its even available) speeds are available down there?
Not sure. Pahoa (the nearest town) should have a CO, which should be DSL-equipped; if youre within wire length limit distance of that, you could get DSL. Time Warner will run cable basically anywhere, but if it's not already in front of your property, you pay per pole they have to run it to get it to you.
Hilo maybe ain't Kona, but why the fsck do you care about networks?
I think its safe to say that we generate more gigabytes of FITS files per capita than anywhere else on the planet. :)