PFPE (perflouropolyether) and MAC (multiply alkylated cyclopentanes), I hear. They have really low vapor pressure (so they don't outgas) but act somewhat like the lubricants we're used to. But that's only one of the issues that means the assumptions you have on the ground won't work.
There is spontaneous vacuum cold welding of materials, because there's no natural air lubricant is absent and atomic bonds tend to migrate across the interfaces. Capillary action works differently. In microgravity, without an anchor the tool operator is more likely to turn around the bolt than turn the bolt.
I went to the market to check, and they didn't have any vaccumm-proof ghee. None of the vendors had space-qualified theirs! Most of them felt that their ghee would boil off.
I was wondering if there was a hysteresis of some kind. It looks like it's frequency-dependent, too. This is how you can charge a device without degaussing magnetic media.
Yes, but it's persistent and of course the effect is cumulative. Another little push on the magnetic domains every time you move. So, it's stronger than you think, but still not enough to demagnetize that strip of oxide in a few years.
You walk around all day in a field that is strong enough to physically move a compass needle. As you change position, you do have a changing magnetic field intersecting with that credit card.
Mythbusters can goof, but they are promoting that the way to learn is from experiments and observation. Which is science.
See if there's a way to put that energy into EFF or Public Knowledge.
I am equally bothered, especially with the companies that do their best to encumber us with their patents and also act (in their own interest) as members of our community. Many of them have joined the Linux Foundation, and some are on its executive board. Many of them (including Microsoft) are part of organizations like Apache Foundation, etc. Some of them are Linux distribution companies. Try to get one of those to take a real stand about software patenting.
I have no reason to believe that Ms. Kriedel was anything but a victim. I believe the Noorda family were all victims, and that little of this would have been allowed to happen had Ray Noorda had his full mental capabilities. As it was, the family was vulnerable to a Svengali. I appreciate that Ms. Kriedel's brother pointed out the role of Rob Enderle and Laura Didio.
What can you do? Do not do harm to anyone. We can wish for justice from courts or society, but I'm afraid all we can do this time is wish.
I'd like to see something like this for Mr. Enderle and Ms. Didio, but I don't think it'll happen as part of the SCO case.
As for Mr. Yarro, I hope that folks understand what he did and shun him, but I have no idea if that happens or not.
This is VCs attempting to look good or to drag it out to the last gasp for the folks behind this deal (I would guess Microsoft, given the testimony from Benchmark Capital).
But I don't think they actually have anything salable no matter how hard they try. There are enough court findings about the provenance of this IP that any going back to that will just cause a motion for sanction under Rule 11, which is about frivolous and factually baseless proceedings.
You're making a very common mistake, which is not including self-education in your concept of education. Information is one of the required elements for self-education, the other key element is practice.
Everyone hates to have their business made into a commodity, that's simple economics. Once it happens, you have to compete on cost alone and be hyper-efficient to make a buck. You can only stay above that if you have a clear and provable advantage over the commodity version, and such things are difficult to maintain as the quality of the commodity version improves.
Look at this like Wikipedia. There are obvious quality problems, but Wikipedia keeps improving and getting larger, and if you're Microsoft Encarta, there's just no market for you any longer (thus, the first MS product actually killed by Open Source).
The guild apprenticeship system really hated book-learning. Copyists really hated printing. Both of these were previous means to commoditize education. This is just more of the same.
There will be tremendous economic repercussions from the further commoditization of education.
That's the usual fate of aircraft put on permanent static display in an unsecured location. The unbroken canopy parts turn yellow in the sun and then craze, the tires rot, the paint fades, the cavities fill up with bird shit and used condoms, and you have an eyesore within a couple of years.
Yes. While I am a tremendous fan of the Air Force museum in Dayton, and indeed think it's better than the Air and Space Museum in D.C., my annual visit there (for Dayton Hamvention) always includes a look at the various outdoor exhibits. Most obviously rotting from year to year are the two nuclear missle launchers, the truck one and the railroad one. But to their credit, they have much more material under roofs than most museums, and are collecting funds for yet another hangar. And as an active Air Force base they have some serious security.
Another experience was in, I think, the Connecticut Trolley Museum. There was a really nice car that, I think, didn't need restoration, except that its doors were open to the weather and plants were starting to grow in some of its nooks.
One thing I remember about the Intrepid was the fighter jets on the flight deck with shattered cockpits. Unfortunately, it's not been possible to date to keep vandals off of the ship. So, keep watching how they take care of the Shuttle. If there are problems, we really should start lobbying for a different home.
If you can make it work as a simple sieve rather than reverse-osmosis, it would be nice if the energy of sucking upon a straw would make it work. And for larger scale processes, the energy of a gravity feed (like a 6-foot head of water) would be nice.
Immedately after the leap second, Monit reported that my system had high CPU load. I found that Openfire, the XMPP chat server, was looping, and continues to loop if halted and restarted.
I can't say if this is just a coincidence or connected with the leap-second, just yet.
HP has a 20-year record of being messed up by other companies, MS and Oracle being two of the top abusers. HP's reaction is usually to come back for more, so I guess they deserve it. In general, MS tells them they will do something by a particular time, like "have an enterprise-quality NT", which led to HP abandoning the workstation market way too soon. Or MS messes up some product line by doing something that HP didn't expect and wasn't informed of, like Surface as a product rather than R&D.
And then there's Itanium. I guess we can mainly blame HP for that.
I'm not going to give you a yes or no, because I don't have to. This is Slashdot, not a grand jury. And, because the answer is more nuanced.
Although Steve is gone, Apple is continuing everything that both Richard and I didn't like about their business. So, Steve's malign influence on people's computing continues unabated.
Like I said, I could have written it better than Richard, because Richard has problems with empathy. Had I written it, it would have been more graceful.
Steve also had no shortage of head problems. What an idiot for not retiring when he was first diagnosed - but I guess the public Steve Jobs was the only Steve Jobs there was, and he couldn't stop. Besides his foolish continuance of work, an eating disorder contributed to his demise. He did end up becoming the richest guy in the graveyard.
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There is spontaneous vacuum cold welding of materials, because there's no natural air lubricant is absent and atomic bonds tend to migrate across the interfaces. Capillary action works differently. In microgravity, without an anchor the tool operator is more likely to turn around the bolt than turn the bolt.
I went to the market to check, and they didn't have any vaccumm-proof ghee. None of the vendors had space-qualified theirs! Most of them felt that their ghee would boil off.
I was wondering if there was a hysteresis of some kind. It looks like it's frequency-dependent, too. This is how you can charge a device without degaussing magnetic media.
Yes, but it's persistent and of course the effect is cumulative. Another little push on the magnetic domains every time you move. So, it's stronger than you think, but still not enough to demagnetize that strip of oxide in a few years.
Mythbusters can goof, but they are promoting that the way to learn is from experiments and observation. Which is science.
I am equally bothered, especially with the companies that do their best to encumber us with their patents and also act (in their own interest) as members of our community. Many of them have joined the Linux Foundation, and some are on its executive board. Many of them (including Microsoft) are part of organizations like Apache Foundation, etc. Some of them are Linux distribution companies. Try to get one of those to take a real stand about software patenting.
What can you do? Do not do harm to anyone. We can wish for justice from courts or society, but I'm afraid all we can do this time is wish.
I'd like to see something like this for Mr. Enderle and Ms. Didio, but I don't think it'll happen as part of the SCO case.
As for Mr. Yarro, I hope that folks understand what he did and shun him, but I have no idea if that happens or not.
But I don't think they actually have anything salable no matter how hard they try. There are enough court findings about the provenance of this IP that any going back to that will just cause a motion for sanction under Rule 11, which is about frivolous and factually baseless proceedings.
Ralph Yarro enriched himself tremendously. While SCO the company might be bankrupt, a lot of the money ended up with him.
Robert Penrose and Val Kriedel (Noorda) both committed suicide over their involvement.
Tens of thousands of us were damaged in some way.
You're making a very common mistake, which is not including self-education in your concept of education. Information is one of the required elements for self-education, the other key element is practice.
Look at this like Wikipedia. There are obvious quality problems, but Wikipedia keeps improving and getting larger, and if you're Microsoft Encarta, there's just no market for you any longer (thus, the first MS product actually killed by Open Source).
The guild apprenticeship system really hated book-learning. Copyists really hated printing. Both of these were previous means to commoditize education. This is just more of the same.
There will be tremendous economic repercussions from the further commoditization of education.
Bruce
They could always put it here.
The Hornet has all sorts of stuff on the hangar deck, including an Apollo capsule and the Mobile Quarantine Facility. That works.
That's a 7000 foot runway, and kind of narrow. They needed the runway on the base for the Valkyrie.
Yes. While I am a tremendous fan of the Air Force museum in Dayton, and indeed think it's better than the Air and Space Museum in D.C., my annual visit there (for Dayton Hamvention) always includes a look at the various outdoor exhibits. Most obviously rotting from year to year are the two nuclear missle launchers, the truck one and the railroad one. But to their credit, they have much more material under roofs than most museums, and are collecting funds for yet another hangar. And as an active Air Force base they have some serious security.
Another experience was in, I think, the Connecticut Trolley Museum. There was a really nice car that, I think, didn't need restoration, except that its doors were open to the weather and plants were starting to grow in some of its nooks.
One thing I remember about the Intrepid was the fighter jets on the flight deck with shattered cockpits. Unfortunately, it's not been possible to date to keep vandals off of the ship. So, keep watching how they take care of the Shuttle. If there are problems, we really should start lobbying for a different home.
You really need atomic rockets to do otherwise on a manned mission. Light sail might be fine for anything unmanned.
It's kind of silly to take your earth-reentry equipment and fuel all of the way to Mars and back.
If you can make it work as a simple sieve rather than reverse-osmosis, it would be nice if the energy of sucking upon a straw would make it work. And for larger scale processes, the energy of a gravity feed (like a 6-foot head of water) would be nice.
But if this works, it would be nice to have:
If they've found a way to desalinate water with much less energy, practically, that's huge.
I can't say if this is just a coincidence or connected with the leap-second, just yet.
Bruce
And then there's Itanium. I guess we can mainly blame HP for that.
Worked for me. Although, to tell the truth, Valerie watched some Star Trek with me before Stanley came along.
I'm not going to give you a yes or no, because I don't have to. This is Slashdot, not a grand jury. And, because the answer is more nuanced.
Although Steve is gone, Apple is continuing everything that both Richard and I didn't like about their business. So, Steve's malign influence on people's computing continues unabated.
Like I said, I could have written it better than Richard, because Richard has problems with empathy. Had I written it, it would have been more graceful.
Steve also had no shortage of head problems. What an idiot for not retiring when he was first diagnosed - but I guess the public Steve Jobs was the only Steve Jobs there was, and he couldn't stop. Besides his foolish continuance of work, an eating disorder contributed to his demise. He did end up becoming the richest guy in the graveyard.