Let's ask a very basic question here: Assuming the U.S. Government has such devices, why the hell would they wasted them "spying" on a public protest, when they could easily use parabolic mikes and telephoto lenses to do a much better job?
Here's another one: Why would the government risk expensive, rare devices on a low value target like a public protest?
So, by way of example, I wrote an un-copy-protected software package and released it as "guiltware" - I asked them to click on the paypal link and make a donation to MDA through me. 5 years on, I know people are still using it because I get help requests.
But not one person ever, ever, ever clicked the link.
I also don't know if it just drives to a star or does tracking.
Being the author of Stellarium's Celestron interface, I can assure you that it does not. It assumes that the scope has it's own tracking software.
Moreover, astrophotographers are going to want to use high-precision tracking mechanisms that use a guide star rather than just mathematics and an internal database.
Avoiding the inevitable argument over the meaning of "begs the question" there are many commercial astronomy packages out there. The Sky, Starry Night, and Equinox all come to mind and there are many others for various platforms.
The cluster depends on gigE for the interconnect, which means data transfers are going to be slow, and have a high latency. He'd be better off spending a little more and using Infiniband equipment.
The posters here seem to be complaining that this is worthless because individuals can't make their own processor chips.
That's not the point. Here's the point:
1: Sun's processors are a niche market. People don't use them because they're harder to use than cheap commodity processors from Intel. Why are they harder to use? Because not enough people use them to create the kind of economic ecosystem that drives down the price of using the processors.
2: All over Asia are chip factories that make low-end embedded devices, RAM chips, and so on. Factories that are owned by companies that don't have the cash on hand to do the R&D to design their own processors to compete with Intel.
3: By GPL'ing their chip designs, Sun lets all those Asian factories produce chips that perform like Intels but cost even less. This gives people an extra incentive to switch away from Intel and to create the very economic ecosystem the processor needs.
4. Next, Sun releases enhanced versions of the chip that aren't GPL'ed. Chip consumers can now choose from fast commodity processors or more expensive deluxe models - that are still code compatible.
And Sun can repeat steps #3 and #4 as often as they like, feeding their previous generation designs to the GPL audience as their newest designs hit the market.
this is a Mac port of Kismet. If you're interested in security issues you might want to subscribe to Pauldotcom's security weekly podcast - that's how I learn about most of this stuff.
I'm not sure I understood your last paragrapht; but it suggested to me that it could still be the case that the main body detonated in the air, with a fragment getting thrown laterally and landing to form the lake. That would explain why the shape of the lake doesn't agree with the understood trajectory.
If that's the case, I'd expect the long axis of the lake to point towards the burst point.
If that's what you were trying to tell me, good idea!
And the actor's name was Darrin Mcgavin. He was also the original "Oscar Goldman" in the pilots for the 6 Million Dollar Man.
It would be nice to get the original TV movies for that show; I picked up the series for cheap, but I remember the original movies being a lot scarier. Of course I was 8 years old when I saw them....
The most widely accepted explanation for not finding the crater is that there isn't one: Most geologists believe the Tunguska object exploded in the air. (This sounds crazy, but it's apparently possible - just as a person doing a belly flop off a cliff is going to be killed by the impact, a meteor can be destroyed by the impact with the lower atmosphere.)
Basically, the more processors you have (and the faster they are) the more finely you can divide the problem.
For example, say you're trying to determine the hydrodynamics of a new kind of ship's propeller. With one generation of hardware, you might have had to assign each processor one cubic centimeter of water. With this new generation, you might increase the resolution so that each processor is simulating a cubic millimeter instead.
This is a massive over-simplification, but it's enough to show you what I mean.
Yes, of course. Most of the rings are ice dust. What they aren't is made of moonlets containing cubic miles of ice that you can strap engines to and drop on Mars.
anaerobic bacteria, the kinds of things that are used to living in very hostile environments.
I'm more curious about where they expect to get the water. Sure, there may be a lot of it around, but the vapor pressure is going to be so low it would be very hard for bacteria to keep their water inside and not just instantly dry up.
Pity that Saturn's rings turned out to be dust instead of ice bergs. I keep thinking about that old Isaac Asimov story...
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Let's ask a very basic question here: Assuming the U.S. Government has such devices, why the hell would they wasted them "spying" on a public protest, when they could easily use parabolic mikes and telephoto lenses to do a much better job?
Here's another one: Why would the government risk expensive, rare devices on a low value target like a public protest?
This whole thing fails all the basic smell tests.
What do you have against MoFo the Psychic Gorilla?
Do you have the receipt?
What's so bad about killall?
It's good enough for Linux but not good enough for you?
Haven't they read The Terminal Man?
Happy psychopathic serial killers, walking the streets, humming their little happy tunes....
Eventually, that's what I did with it; it's hosted on Sourceforge because I didn't want to see it die, but I'm hardly motivated to update it, am I?
So, by way of example, I wrote an un-copy-protected software package and released it as "guiltware" - I asked them to click on the paypal link and make a donation to MDA through me. 5 years on, I know people are still using it because I get help requests.
But not one person ever, ever, ever clicked the link.
I also don't know if it just drives to a star or does tracking.
Being the author of Stellarium's Celestron interface, I can assure you that it does not. It assumes that the scope has it's own tracking software.
Moreover, astrophotographers are going to want to use high-precision tracking mechanisms that use a guide star rather than just mathematics and an internal database.
Avoiding the inevitable argument over the meaning of "begs the question" there are many commercial astronomy packages out there. The Sky, Starry Night, and Equinox all come to mind and there are many others for various platforms.
Your honesty is refreshing.
The cluster depends on gigE for the interconnect, which means data transfers are going to be slow, and have a high latency. He'd be better off spending a little more and using Infiniband equipment.
The Seagate? Have you considered that "AAK" implies that there many have been as many as 11 previous revisions of this drive?
So, wait, you're hoping the US will devolve at the same time the EU is transforming its member states into vassals?
people are more surprised by the 3 CPU sockets than they are by the IB ports.
I thought IB was dead - replaced by 10gigE?
The posters here seem to be complaining that this is worthless because individuals can't make their own processor chips.
That's not the point. Here's the point:
1: Sun's processors are a niche market. People don't use them because they're harder to use than cheap commodity processors from Intel. Why are they harder to use? Because not enough people use them to create the kind of economic ecosystem that drives down the price of using the processors.
2: All over Asia are chip factories that make low-end embedded devices, RAM chips, and so on. Factories that are owned by companies that don't have the cash on hand to do the R&D to design their own processors to compete with Intel.
3: By GPL'ing their chip designs, Sun lets all those Asian factories produce chips that perform like Intels but cost even less. This gives people an extra incentive to switch away from Intel and to create the very economic ecosystem the processor needs.
4. Next, Sun releases enhanced versions of the chip that aren't GPL'ed. Chip consumers can now choose from fast commodity processors or more expensive deluxe models - that are still code compatible.
And Sun can repeat steps #3 and #4 as often as they like, feeding their previous generation designs to the GPL audience as their newest designs hit the market.
Didn't the ",1" suffix cause the program to autostart?
You're supposed to drink it. A couple of shots of Troll-be-gone and suddenly everyone you meet is +5 insightful.
this is a Mac port of Kismet. If you're interested in security issues you might want to subscribe to Pauldotcom's security weekly podcast - that's how I learn about most of this stuff.
I'm not sure I understood your last paragrapht; but it suggested to me that it could still be the case that the main body detonated in the air, with a fragment getting thrown laterally and landing to form the lake. That would explain why the shape of the lake doesn't agree with the understood trajectory.
If that's the case, I'd expect the long axis of the lake to point towards the burst point.
If that's what you were trying to tell me, good idea!
He hated when people got his name wrong. ;-)
And the actor's name was Darrin Mcgavin. He was also the original "Oscar Goldman" in the pilots for the 6 Million Dollar Man.
It would be nice to get the original TV movies for that show; I picked up the series for cheap, but I remember the original movies being a lot scarier. Of course I was 8 years old when I saw them....
The most widely accepted explanation for not finding the crater is that there isn't one: Most geologists believe the Tunguska object exploded in the air. (This sounds crazy, but it's apparently possible - just as a person doing a belly flop off a cliff is going to be killed by the impact, a meteor can be destroyed by the impact with the lower atmosphere.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
Basically, the more processors you have (and the faster they are) the more finely you can divide the problem.
For example, say you're trying to determine the hydrodynamics of a new kind of ship's propeller. With one generation of hardware, you might have had to assign each processor one cubic centimeter of water. With this new generation, you might increase the resolution so that each processor is simulating a cubic millimeter instead.
This is a massive over-simplification, but it's enough to show you what I mean.
Yes, of course. Most of the rings are ice dust. What they aren't is made of moonlets containing cubic miles of ice that you can strap engines to and drop on Mars.
What are you talking about? Saturn's rings are a mix of dust and ice.
Yes, of course. Most of the rings are ice dust. What they aren't is made of moonlets containing cubic miles of that you can strap engines to and drop on Mars.
anaerobic bacteria, the kinds of things that are used to living in very hostile environments.
I'm more curious about where they expect to get the water. Sure, there may be a lot of it around, but the vapor pressure is going to be so low it would be very hard for bacteria to keep their water inside and not just instantly dry up.
Pity that Saturn's rings turned out to be dust instead of ice bergs. I keep thinking about that old Isaac Asimov story...