High temp semiconductors? It doesn't get that hot, even in the desert. Cheapo plastic semiconductors are rated to 70C [158F] and industrial parts to 125C [257F].
What's up with the melting sand bit? Just use concrete or dirt. Cheaper, faster, better. Right?
Helix pumps? Why not regular pumps like every other pumping station on earth?
Are you planning on paving the Sahara with bird shit? You'll need a lot of birds. Why not use dirt? Dirt is cheap (dirt cheap). Dig it from the ground, dredge it from the sea.
What's all this remote control? Just send in the workers. It isn't that hot. Drink lots of fluids and work in an air conditioned cab.
Break up Microsoft into 3 or 4 companies and give each full rights to the code. Ban all top execs from the baby bills for 8 years. After all, if the corp is divided along product lines each baby will still have a monopoly. Make 'em compete compete against each other. Maybe they could be named GatesWare, BillSoft, Victorinox, and Wenger.
What are you talking about? How hard can it be to start a 16 kW engine? My 150kW car starts with a car battery. My 4.4kW generator starts with a freakin' pull cord and cost about $500. I think your estimate was off by 10x.
Put it back! It was more interesting than another office suite review. It had the proper mix of security holes and legal issues to put the slashdot conspiracy engine into high gear.
Off topic, but puzzling: There was a story just a few hours ago about Staples filing a civil suit against an unknown cracker. The cracker put an Office Depot ad on the staples site. Where did the story go?! It isn't on the older pages, it isn't on the search engine.
Yah. My rad-hard 386 will survive the mission just fine. You really don't have any idea what is involved in making these probes. I don't think you can even use solder in the space enviroment. It sublimes in the vacuum. Temperature (both extremes), radiation, shock, power consumption, and countless other problems I can't think of right now.
Why is it that whenever people are confronted with a problem that can't be solved with a perl one-liner they immediatly think "it must need a neural net." WTF? It's always either "neural net" or "quantum computer" or "fuzzy logic."
I picked up a nifty book on network intrusion detection cunningly titled _Network_Intrusion_Detection_an_analyst's_handbook by Stephen Northcutt. ISBN 0-7357-0868-1 It's pretty cheap at $40. Well, cheap compared to other computer texts.
If you have an EE geek, get _The_Art_of_Electronics_ by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill. ISBN 0-5213-7095-7 (2nd ed. a newer one may be out). This is the very best textbook ever written on designing and building electronic devices. It has a strong emphasis on practical design.
> My machine has an extra cooler, and it's ROCK solid as win 98 machine can be.
But it DOES crash every now and them, right? So how can you be sure? I care too much about stability to overclock. I also care too much to run Win98. Celerons are so cheap, just buy two.
'Course you couldn't kill as many people so quickly with your bare hands. Assault weapons do seem to amplify the damage when a murderer goes on a rampage.
Ryan
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I think Rainbow Six is much more violent than Quake. Quake's violence isn't very realistic. Rocket launchers? Rail guns? I remember watching my roommate play Rainbow Six. In one mission he burst into a room to see a woman on her knees crying with her hands folded behind her head. The terrorist shoots her once in the head and she falls to floor, dead. This scene is much more disturbing than gibs. Ryan
Hope you don't get./ed. I have a roommate who has decided to "train" himself to only get seven hours of sleep. Is this consistent with your goal of constant productivity. My roommate thinks his plan is great, now he has a free hour to study and work. What's my point? I don't know...
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> One has two factors anyway. 1 and itself. Just because 'itself' and '1' are the same numerically, it doesn't mean that they couldn't be counted seprately.
Yeah, but that fscks up The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. This theorem states that every positive integer can be written uniquely as the product of primes written in increasing order. For example:
8 = 2 * 2 * 2 12 = 2 * 2 * 3 1 = nothing 0 is not a positive integer
If 1 was prime then prime factorizations wouldn't be unique. 6 = 2 * 3 6 = 1 * 2 * 3
The factorization of one itself is a bit wierd. One is the multiplicative identity just as zero is the additive identity. The product of no numbers is one just as the sum of no numbers. This is sort of arbitrary but keeps everything consistent. Imagine the horrors if 0! != 1 or x^0 != 1. The rec.math faq has more information. Check the entry for Why 0^0 == 1.
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Won't any microbes on Mars be irradiated into submission? Does Mars have a magnetic shield to protect it?
Some points:
High temp semiconductors? It doesn't get that hot, even in the desert. Cheapo plastic semiconductors are rated to 70C [158F] and industrial parts to 125C [257F].
What's up with the melting sand bit? Just use concrete or dirt. Cheaper, faster, better. Right?
Helix pumps? Why not regular pumps like every other pumping station on earth?
Are you planning on paving the Sahara with bird shit? You'll need a lot of birds. Why not use dirt? Dirt is cheap (dirt cheap). Dig it from the ground, dredge it from the sea.
What's all this remote control? Just send in the workers. It isn't that hot. Drink lots of fluids and work in an air conditioned cab.
Ryan
If the medium gain antenna is hosed, how does the lander receive commands from nasa? Are they relayed through the surveyor?
Ryan
In other words, I can just drop packets going to your auth server and I get the game for free?
ifconfig eth0:1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
where xxx is retrieved with tcpdump.
Ryan
Break up Microsoft into 3 or 4 companies and give each full rights to the code. Ban all top execs from the baby bills for 8 years. After all, if the corp is divided along product lines each baby will still have a monopoly. Make 'em compete compete against each other. Maybe they could be named GatesWare, BillSoft, Victorinox, and Wenger.
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What are you talking about? How hard can it be to start a 16 kW engine? My 150kW car starts with a car battery. My 4.4kW generator starts with a freakin' pull cord and cost about $500. I think your estimate was off by 10x.
Ryan
Let it blow! :)
I live in the dorms too. Nothing like three computers to drown out the "noises" from next door.
Ryan
Put it back! It was more interesting than another office suite review. It had the proper mix of security holes and legal issues to put the slashdot conspiracy engine into high gear.
Ryan
Off topic, but puzzling:
There was a story just a few hours ago about Staples filing a civil suit against an unknown cracker. The cracker put an Office Depot ad on the staples site. Where did the story go?! It isn't on the older pages, it isn't on the search engine.
Ryan
I volunteer.
I would go to.
Yah. My rad-hard 386 will survive the mission just fine. You really don't have any idea what is involved in making these probes. I don't think you can even use solder in the space enviroment. It sublimes in the vacuum. Temperature (both extremes), radiation, shock, power consumption, and countless other problems I can't think of right now.
> Hell none of them match the soldiering iron in mine.
Get a new iron. Fry's has a nifty blue / translucent soldering iron. Hakko is the manufacturer. I have the 20W model, works great.
Too bad they didn't have the balls to make a chord keyboard. Time to whip out the pic and make one myself...
Ryan
Part 15 applies to consumer electronics (cordless phone, computer, etc). I doubt part 15 applies to broadcast stations :)
Ryan
Why is it that whenever people are confronted with a problem that can't be solved with a perl one-liner they immediatly think "it must need a neural net." WTF? It's always either "neural net" or "quantum computer" or "fuzzy logic."
Ryan
I picked up a nifty book on network intrusion detection cunningly titled _Network_Intrusion_Detection_an_analyst's_handbook by Stephen Northcutt. ISBN 0-7357-0868-1 It's pretty cheap at $40. Well, cheap compared to other computer texts.
If you have an EE geek, get _The_Art_of_Electronics_ by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill. ISBN 0-5213-7095-7 (2nd ed. a newer one may be out). This is the very best textbook ever written on designing and building electronic devices. It has a strong emphasis on practical design.
Ryan
"Tits" is fine. "Pussy" is one of the seven.
> My machine has an extra cooler, and it's ROCK solid as win 98 machine can be.
But it DOES crash every now and them, right? So how can you be sure? I care too much about stability to overclock. I also care too much to run Win98. Celerons are so cheap, just buy two.
Ryan
'Course you couldn't kill as many people so quickly with your bare hands. Assault weapons do seem to amplify the damage when a murderer goes on a rampage.
Ryan
Whoops. Make that sci.math.
sci.math: 0^0
Ryan
I think Rainbow Six is much more violent than Quake. Quake's violence isn't very realistic. Rocket launchers? Rail guns? I remember watching my roommate play Rainbow Six. In one mission he burst into a room to see a woman on her knees crying with her hands folded behind her head. The terrorist shoots her once in the head and she falls to floor, dead. This scene is much more disturbing than gibs.
Ryan
> I'll send you $100.
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Hope you don't get
I have a roommate who has decided to "train" himself to only get seven hours of sleep. Is this consistent with your goal of constant productivity. My roommate thinks his plan is great, now he has a free hour to study and work. What's my point? I don't know...
> For me, it's incredibly rare to see a BDOS on my NT server.
SP4 fixes this. Go get it here.
> One has two factors anyway. 1 and itself. Just because 'itself' and '1' are the same numerically, it doesn't mean that they couldn't be counted seprately.
Yeah, but that fscks up The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. This theorem states that every positive integer can be written uniquely as the product of primes written in increasing order. For example:
8 = 2 * 2 * 2
12 = 2 * 2 * 3
1 = nothing
0 is not a positive integer
If 1 was prime then prime factorizations wouldn't be unique.
6 = 2 * 3
6 = 1 * 2 * 3
The factorization of one itself is a bit wierd. One is the multiplicative identity just as zero is the additive identity. The product of no numbers is one just as the sum of no numbers. This is sort of arbitrary but keeps everything consistent. Imagine the horrors if 0! != 1 or x^0 != 1. The rec.math faq has more information. Check the entry for Why 0^0 == 1.
Ryan Salsbury