Yes, of course, I misspoke; there are seven "bright" stars recognized in the Pleiades in western traditions.
The bit about FHI history is interesting - I hadn't really kept track of how many divisions they have currently, since I work for the "other" Subaru (the one this thread is about).:)
The Subaru car logo has fewer than 7 stars on it, because Fuji Heavy Industries has fewer than 7 sub-companies.
Alas, the Subaru telescope was not built by Fuji at all, but by Mitsubishi Electric, which is part of the same industrial conglomerate as Mitsubishi Motors. This confuses people tremendously.
But it's kind of fun to be able to say "I drive a 500-ton Subaru built by Mitsubishi."
we'll never see cars powered in "real time" by the sun
Of course not - that would require some sort of imaginary magical "photo-voltaic" device to turn sunlight into electricity, and the priest and the village alchemist both tell me that's blasphemous foolishness.
I have somewhere north of 300 friends on Facebook.
Do you actually KNOW any of them?
Of course - and that's how I know that for any given question that might come up, fewer than 1% of them are going to be able to tell me anything I don't already know. I'm a generalist; "know more than most people about most things" is how I roll. So unless I have a question that requires specialist-level knowledge of, or advice on, something, my social network isn't any more useful than Google.
I have somewhere north of 300 friends on Facebook. Any question I might need help with would best be addressed to at most three of them. If I need to know something, I'm not going to find it out by asking my cousins. People I used to work with tend to know pretty much the same stuff I know in the field I used to work in. And so on. I haven't been able to enforce "you must be knowledgeable and a good thinker to know me" yet.
I got a very similar email from Amazon, only it's about affiliates in Hawaii. It doesn't at all make it clear what they're upset about, and I don't remember there being any changes to Hawaii's general excise tax (which isn't the same as a sales tax) in, oh, the last decade or so.
Contract, probably not. But in a few months the original poster will probably be able to buy that Pre unlocked, with a prepaid (Pre-paid?) plan from someone, without going through the credit check. Money up front talks.:)
70 years of history is a good start, but the court is 220 years old this year, so I hope they'll be expanding their timeline. It'd be interesting to see how the court in our lifetimes compares to the previous 150 years.
You haven't made this clear. Why would you not want to pursue such a lofty calling?
I think the happiest I've ever been as a techie was when I was a BOFH with a supportive, understanding, non-pointy-haired boss.
When HE needed something done, you bet I gave it my all.
When some random girl from marketing needed something done... she had to go through him (gruff ex-military guy) first. And if she survived that... well, I'd do it, but I did once get called into Boss^2's office and told to stop making the marketers cry.
The word "building" in there makes me wonder whether this department might actually have some kind of legitimate need for CAD software or such, which tends to be under-represented on Linux (and Mac, for that matter).
* Steady paychecks * Excellent benefits * No dress code * Only ever have to deal with cool, smart people * Don't even have to deal with those, most of the time * "Full-time" arrived at by working long hours for 5-7 nights, building up comp time at 1.5x * Comp time then gets used, resulting in a 5-10 day "weekend" * Unless you run out of comp time, no one expects to see you at the office. * Cool duties * Cool shiny toys (my new one is an 8.3-meter mirror - that's bigger than my house) * Chance of being involved in something profound being discovered/created
Skilled trades may very well meet a bunch of those criteria too. I know there are plenty of top-notch mechanically or electrically inclined engineers, technicians and general fixers of things where I work.
Not exactly expensive either. Some digital cameras come with bundled software (e.g. Canon PhotoStitch) that can spit out QTVR files, and after some digging in Google and on Apple's site to see what has replaced the old "QuickTime VR Authoring Studio" from Apple, I managed to find Apple's QTVR tools page, with a link to ClickHere Design's Cubic Connector for a whopping $79.
If I get sufficiently bored at any point in the near future, I think I'll grab that program and start making virtual tours of all kinds of things.:)
make sure you have a good network so that players can migrate from server to server as they move about the world
I'm frankly shocked that no one has referenced the various MUDs or MOOs that implemented this kind of thing... has it been that long? Have we all forgotten?
Yes, by all means, split things up geographically. There's little reason for one server to handle the whole world/universe if you can handle handoffs between them well.
JWST's near-IR detectors were manufactured by Teledyne (formerly Rockwell), with the University of Hawai'i involved under contract for development and testing.
What Hawai'i have always been very good at is giving the impression that they develop detectors themselves:`)
Depends on whether your definition of "develop" involves fabrication, I guess. You just said right up there that Rockwell manufactured them and UH was involved for development and testing. I think MIT Lincoln Labs was in the mix too, but at that point in time I was wrangling an SCO OpenSewer box at a trucking company, and I don't really want to go ask Don Hall even if he's in the same building, so I'll take your word for it.:)
While they're also good at getting them on the telescope quickly, it's often on small telescopes like the UH 88 inch in lashed-up dewars and (to be honest) not delivering much science.
Darn right! A slightly-smaller-than-Hubble scope that doesn't have 5-7 nights of proposals for every available night like larger scopes do can actually be useful for testing stuff. But prototype chips aren't really what you want to use for science - the raw images look like crap, the chips tend to "explosively delaminate" (one of ULBCAM's did last year) and about all you can do is send grad students tilting at windmills trying to develop data reduction routines, mwahaha.
2000-2004 was a good period for UH88 getting next-gen instruments - OPTIC, ULBCAM, SNIFS. But Pan-STARRS has been a mere 2 years away for the last 3 years, and may be a mere 2 years away for real this time, so those may be the last major new things 88 sees.
4096x4096 pixel infrared mosaics are also now available on bigger telescopes such as the UKIRT 3.8m (WFCAM), CFHT 3.6m (WIRCAM) and the VLT 8.2m (HAWK-I).
...using, at least in the case of WFCAM, the production versions of those same Rockwell chips. I've actually had a couple nights on UKIRT with WFCAM for UKIDSS, it's a nice setup.
Good job I put that bit in about "some of my best friends are Hawai'ans", eh, Dan, now that I've seen that you're a TO for the 88 inch...:`)
Among other things... for the remainder of this week. Drop me an email and I can say a lot more.
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Yes, of course, I misspoke; there are seven "bright" stars recognized in the Pleiades in western traditions.
The bit about FHI history is interesting - I hadn't really kept track of how many divisions they have currently, since I work for the "other" Subaru (the one this thread is about). :)
The Subaru car logo has fewer than 7 stars on it, because Fuji Heavy Industries has fewer than 7 sub-companies.
Alas, the Subaru telescope was not built by Fuji at all, but by Mitsubishi Electric, which is part of the same industrial conglomerate as Mitsubishi Motors. This confuses people tremendously.
But it's kind of fun to be able to say "I drive a 500-ton Subaru built by Mitsubishi."
we'll never see cars powered in "real time" by the sun
Of course not - that would require some sort of imaginary magical "photo-voltaic" device to turn sunlight into electricity, and the priest and the village alchemist both tell me that's blasphemous foolishness.
I have somewhere north of 300 friends on Facebook.
Do you actually KNOW any of them?
Of course - and that's how I know that for any given question that might come up, fewer than 1% of them are going to be able to tell me anything I don't already know. I'm a generalist; "know more than most people about most things" is how I roll. So unless I have a question that requires specialist-level knowledge of, or advice on, something, my social network isn't any more useful than Google.
I have somewhere north of 300 friends on Facebook. Any question I might need help with would best be addressed to at most three of them. If I need to know something, I'm not going to find it out by asking my cousins. People I used to work with tend to know pretty much the same stuff I know in the field I used to work in. And so on. I haven't been able to enforce "you must be knowledgeable and a good thinker to know me" yet.
I got a very similar email from Amazon, only it's about affiliates in Hawaii. It doesn't at all make it clear what they're upset about, and I don't remember there being any changes to Hawaii's general excise tax (which isn't the same as a sales tax) in, oh, the last decade or so.
Those who bought new computers from Apple after June 8 get it for $9.95 to cover shipping and handling. :)
Contract, probably not. But in a few months the original poster will probably be able to buy that Pre unlocked, with a prepaid (Pre-paid?) plan from someone, without going through the credit check. Money up front talks. :)
70 years of history is a good start, but the court is 220 years old this year, so I hope they'll be expanding their timeline. It'd be interesting to see how the court in our lifetimes compares to the previous 150 years.
They're experts on charging everyone for content, whether they want it or not.
(Whatever happened to all those proposals for 'ala carte' cable?)
Seems like she'd make a good doctor. :)
...and where can I get a torrent of them?
You haven't made this clear. Why would you not want to pursue such a lofty calling?
I think the happiest I've ever been as a techie was when I was a BOFH with a supportive, understanding, non-pointy-haired boss.
When HE needed something done, you bet I gave it my all.
When some random girl from marketing needed something done... she had to go through him (gruff ex-military guy) first. And if she survived that... well, I'd do it, but I did once get called into Boss^2's office and told to stop making the marketers cry.
Ah, those were the days!
The word "building" in there makes me wonder whether this department might actually have some kind of legitimate need for CAD software or such, which tends to be under-represented on Linux (and Mac, for that matter).
I can think of a few criteria.
* Steady paychecks
* Excellent benefits
* No dress code
* Only ever have to deal with cool, smart people
* Don't even have to deal with those, most of the time
* "Full-time" arrived at by working long hours for 5-7 nights, building up comp time at 1.5x
* Comp time then gets used, resulting in a 5-10 day "weekend"
* Unless you run out of comp time, no one expects to see you at the office.
* Cool duties
* Cool shiny toys (my new one is an 8.3-meter mirror - that's bigger than my house)
* Chance of being involved in something profound being discovered/created
Skilled trades may very well meet a bunch of those criteria too. I know there are plenty of top-notch mechanically or electrically inclined engineers, technicians and general fixers of things where I work.
Gamer with a fiancee? I can't believe you guys fell for this obvious troll attempt.
...so I could suffer the meta-frustration of waiting for a Java applet to load so I could then buy some Java applets and wait for them to load.
Well, an expensive panoramic head never HURTS, that's for sure. And even with one, you're susceptible to things moving across the field of view.
But if somebody wants to go low-budget and just make something for their friends or family or whatever, it looks like they can.
Not exactly cheap, but it might work.
Not exactly expensive either. Some digital cameras come with bundled software (e.g. Canon PhotoStitch) that can spit out QTVR files, and after some digging in Google and on Apple's site to see what has replaced the old "QuickTime VR Authoring Studio" from Apple, I managed to find Apple's QTVR tools page, with a link to ClickHere Design's Cubic Connector for a whopping $79.
If I get sufficiently bored at any point in the near future, I think I'll grab that program and start making virtual tours of all kinds of things. :)
These guys have been leaving voicemail on my SkypeIn number. I guess my laptop's car warranty has expired.
make sure you have a good network so that players can migrate from server to server as they move about the world
I'm frankly shocked that no one has referenced the various MUDs or MOOs that implemented this kind of thing... has it been that long? Have we all forgotten?
Yes, by all means, split things up geographically. There's little reason for one server to handle the whole world/universe if you can handle handoffs between them well.
Yeah, I was gonna say this headline seemed to be missing a couple words. :)
JWST's near-IR detectors were manufactured by Teledyne (formerly Rockwell), with the University of Hawai'i involved under contract for development and testing.
What Hawai'i have always been very good at is giving the impression that they develop detectors themselves :`)
Depends on whether your definition of "develop" involves fabrication, I guess. You just said right up there that Rockwell manufactured them and UH was involved for development and testing. I think MIT Lincoln Labs was in the mix too, but at that point in time I was wrangling an SCO OpenSewer box at a trucking company, and I don't really want to go ask Don Hall even if he's in the same building, so I'll take your word for it. :)
While they're also good at getting them on the telescope quickly, it's often on small telescopes like the UH 88 inch in lashed-up dewars and (to be honest) not delivering much science.
Darn right! A slightly-smaller-than-Hubble scope that doesn't have 5-7 nights of proposals for every available night like larger scopes do can actually be useful for testing stuff. But prototype chips aren't really what you want to use for science - the raw images look like crap, the chips tend to "explosively delaminate" (one of ULBCAM's did last year) and about all you can do is send grad students tilting at windmills trying to develop data reduction routines, mwahaha.
2000-2004 was a good period for UH88 getting next-gen instruments - OPTIC, ULBCAM, SNIFS. But Pan-STARRS has been a mere 2 years away for the last 3 years, and may be a mere 2 years away for real this time, so those may be the last major new things 88 sees.
4096x4096 pixel infrared mosaics are also now available on bigger telescopes such as the UKIRT 3.8m (WFCAM), CFHT 3.6m (WIRCAM) and the VLT 8.2m (HAWK-I).
...using, at least in the case of WFCAM, the production versions of those same Rockwell chips. I've actually had a couple nights on UKIRT with WFCAM for UKIDSS, it's a nice setup.
Good job I put that bit in about "some of my best friends are Hawai'ans", eh, Dan, now that I've seen that you're a TO for the 88 inch ... :`)
Among other things... for the remainder of this week. Drop me an email and I can say a lot more.
Clearly, people don't feel the price Microsoft asks for IE is reasonable. They should lower it a bit.
Heh... interesting way of looking at it.
"Sorry, Dr. Tully, but you only get 45 minutes." :)
I wonder whether they'd actually do that.