I'm not sure about lucky... A long time ago I noticed that the spin had an effect on the outcome, too. I think the researchers noted the spin in this report, but I didn't RTFA. With a U.S. quarter, if you flip it and it spins faster, heads is the most likely outcome. Tails is more likely with a slower spin. I use this and have shown my friends 7 out of 10 accuracy. Combining the two still doesn't give much better results than 7 out of 10 (I just sat here and flipped 30 times with coin hitting the ground, no catching).
Milliard USED to be the Euro term for the U.S. billion, but most nations have switched to the U.S. term for 1,000,000,000. Milliard and the old Euro def of billion are archaic usages, and billion is generally used in the U.S. sense. Check Wikipedia for Milliard and also Wiki for Billion. A google-fight between billion and milliard results in 12,800,000 hits for billion and 235,000 for milliard. Billion wins.
Of course, I'm American, so I don't know how often the general public in Europe uses those terms and with what meanings; but officially in the government the terms have changed.
Microevolution is defined as a gradual change in genetic frequency. Since the colour of the moth is a gene controlled thing, the change in frequency of colours in the moth shows microevolution. Microevolution is a type of evolution, so evolution does occur.
He stated that there were two types of evolution within biological terms... one proven (micro) and one unproven (macro). Evolution is a generic term.
Why don't you pay attention... Microevolution (a type of evolution) is DEFINED as a change in gene-frequency over time. Therefore, a "variation in distribution of existing genetic material" DOES show evolution... just not Macroevolution. He specifically stated the two different types in his email (just didn't use the terms). His post stated, I thought, rather explicitly that we haven't seen macro, only micro, and that he didn't think we'd ever prove macro.
People get so damned worked up over the term evolution that they don't pay attention to the fact that it is a pretty generic term. It can mean something as simple as gradual development.
The only way he "helped" was by letting me borrow his soldering iron. And the remote setup he used was on my 14-1994... I had that setup to have the exact layout of the original remote mimicked, so buttons were "mislabeled" but they were where I remembered them being on the original remote. The new 15-2116 has most of my codes in it natively, so it is setup with correctly labeled buttons. I had to relearn some positions, but now all my dorky friends can look at it and know what they do.
There is something I find beautiful about only having a single remote on your coffee table that controls everything, instead of 4 or 5 remotes strewn everywhere.
The JP1 interface hack is pretty much a full fledged support option now. So many contributors and websites that you can just buy the cable with the software (Windows programmer and Excel based script builder that doesn't work in OO.org Calc program, but you might be able to rewrite the spreadsheet scripts to work with Calc and there might be a linux programmer). And almost every device is either natively supported or some dork with an offbrand device has made his own spreadsheet that you can download and use.
Essentially, you just buy a bare parallel port connector (has the box and pins), 2 resistors and a spare IDE cable. Solder some of the wires in the IDE cable to some of the pins and the resistor, put in parallel port connector and you're cable is done. There is a 6pin connector inside the battery box of the remote, which the sawed off IDE cable connects to. You use the Excel spreadsheet to setup a code set, then copy that into the programmer software. The programmer can save and archive old remote setups (so you don't have to remember what codes did what device and can revert if you screw up) and is pretty easy to use.
The newer 15-2116 actually does almost everything I need natively without the JP1 hack... the only thing I had to do was multiple volume passthrough. The geniuses who make the remote decided that instead of being able to assign the volume button for one device to another, you can now (changed from the 14-1994 version) only have ALL volume buttons control one volume, or ALL control their own. I want ReplayTV and TV to control TV volume, but RCVR and DVD to control RCVR volume.
Oh, and I know what you mean about the Play button... I got into the habit of sliding my finger down till I felt the last row of buttons, then went up one row to find Play.
I have used the TiVo remote, and it is pretty good... I prefer the remote I have, though.
It is the Radio Shack universal 15-2116 (previously 14-1994, which I also still own). I hacked together a little parallel cable to connect it to my computer and program every single button exactly how I want (called the JP1 hack). You can map any button any way you want, clear out the memory of unused buttons, etc. I have that thing programmed for 6 different things (from the replayTV to the original Apex hacked dvd player to an offbrand tv/vcr combo) and have the buttons so intuitively mapped that I don't ever need to look at it. It also has this weird textured plastic that feels like hardened suede. IR learning and everything else, all for $30.
This govt is in the states of Kerala and, IIRC, West Bengal. I did some travelling in Kerala and ended up stuck in the middle of a huge communist rally. It was really eery, being from the US and growing up in the cold war era, to be surrounded by red flags and banners like that.
One interesting fact is that Kerala is among the most literate (98% literacy rate, officially) in the world. My friends told me that communism is especially alluring to those of the intellectual persuasion in India. Also, Kerala is a southern state, and very few tourists visit there (Delhi and Bombay are considered northern states). With the exception of Kovalam Beach, I was the only "white" person I saw there.
Why did you buy the game in the first place if you KNEW that you would not be able to play multi-player at the time of purchase? Where you unable to wait for the patch to come out? You stated in the blurb that the only reason you want the game is for MP and aren't at all interested in the single player mode. You knew before you bought it that, at the time of purchase, you would have no interest in even using it. If I'm buying a car for driving on the road but the tires aren't available for it yet, I'm not going to buy it now versus when the tires are ready. Stupid analogy? You bet. Is it also stupid to buy a game before you can even play it? I think so. It's like buying Sims Online when you don't have internet access... or buying any computer game when you don't own a computer. It makes a hell of a lot more sense to keep the money in the bank and wait until you can actually play the game.
Did the game company illegally market this game and therefore this is a viable lawsuit? I have no idea. Are there too many lawsuits in the U.S. because people don't want to take any responsibility for their own stupid/impatient actions? I have an inkling there are.
As I've proposed in a couple other/. posts, I don't know if them selling our viewing habits is a good thing or not. Think about it, they know we are using TiVo to watch our shows... that means they also know we timeshift and have the ability to skip commercials. With the keylogging, they KNOW when we skip commercials.
Shows make money by selling commercials. The price is dependent on ratings. If an ad company knows a certain percentage of that rating is using a TiVo and is skipping commercials, the price would go down for a spot. Once ad companies know a show is highly watched on TiVo and the commercials highly skipped, why would they pay to support that show?
This either leads to advertisers pulling out (cancelling the show) or them selling alternate forms of ads, like those little bits that are on the lower corner of the screen. Fox has that big sweaty boyfriend bouncing up and down in the corner with the face of a scared mom next to him. Now, maybe you'd prefer that along with a full 30 minutes of content (I'm undecided at the moment), but I'm just pointing out that this may or may not lead to a show getting more funding.
Are you really sure you want advertisers knowing you watch a certain show? Shows make their money by selling commercials, but if the advertisers know you are skipping them with the TiVo, why would they pay? I think it would be cool if TiVo (or ReplayTV for me) would tell people I'm watching their shows, but I think people knowing that I'm intentionally skipping their commercials will lead to FASTER cancellization of my shows.
So, if you are skipping the commercials, TiVo knows it and could sell this aggregate info to advertisers. The result could either be fewer companies wanting to pay for nobody to watch their ads OR more companies putting ads INSIDE the show... i.e. those little ads Fox has running in the lower corner of the Simpsons with a Bachelorette running away from pursuing men.
Exactly, whether or not it makes sense to actually implement, I'd love to see how this could be accomplished... Haven't any of you done something ridiculously overcomplicated just for fun? Rube Goldberg? Not only that, but if this kid is in highschool, maybe he actually wants to learn something (as opposed to just learn how to do busy work).
I am definitely not a network engineer or a wireless expert, but possibly a very simple solution might be a Roger Wilco server with some bluetooth headsets. VoIP is probably a pain in the ass and might require custom software. RW clients can be run on simple computers. Donated pentiums in key locations connected to the 802.11g network to the RW server, with bluetooth headsets to connect to those nodes.
Exactly what I was thinking... this article is absolutely useless. She reviewed a total of four things, and has six pages setup that are accessed by any of 30 different link trees. The reviews aren't detailed, either. This is a worthless review (and I didn't even find the exotic one-handed one that was in the/. blurb). Did the editor RTFA? I read threw almost all of it, and the most I gained was learning about a single new product. The rest of it is essentially a copy of a marketing promo.
Ummm... are you kidding me? We can't test a landing by a computer program using retros?
I, as an aerospace engineer that runs simulations of rocket launches for a living, can definitely refute that statement. First off, simulations of this type are extremely easy. Secondly, testing them in the real world is pretty easy as well... back before the CRV (x-38) was cancelled, they did live drop tests of the thing. It had a huge parafoil chute system that was completely computer controlled and guided (not just a passive parachute, but a guided and steerable system). Also, there is that one rocket being tested for the X-prize that uses retros to land (I forget the name of it), and it has completed many tests. Finally, as another reply to your post pointed out, many of the probes/landers on Mars and Venus used retros and chutes to land. Pathfinder was the first to use the bounce technique; before that, chutes and retros were all we had.
Now, I will grant you that our track record with retros aren't great lately, but a lot of those failures were due to not having full telemetry during that stage of landing. If we had some telemetry from the landers that crashed and burned, we might have been able to make adjustments in our schemes and prevented future ones. The newest rover finally did have that full telemetry during landing.
You must've not seen the hi-res image, or forgot that mozilla and IE both scale down the image to fit your browser window. NASA said this is the highest resolution image EVER taken of another planet. That includes Pathfinder, Sojourner, et. al. I was astounded at the detail in this photo... You can see individual grains of sand! The full-res TIFF is 40.4MB, and the JPEG sizes up at around 1.5MB. A 40MB file over an 11kbps connection takes a bit of time to download. This is, obviously, a mosaic of 4 photos IIRC, so more like 10MB per photo; but they still had to send 40MB over a slow data link.
The article just says it orbits between Jupiter and Earth, but doesn't mention its geometry. The orbit could be highly elliptical, with its perihelion being lower than Earth's and apohelion being higher than Earths's. At some point in its orbit, it would be "orbiting" between Earth and Jupiter.. at another point it would be crossing orbital paths with Earth on its way to perihelion.
Yes, it is terrible use of terminology (indicative of the rest of the article), but it could kind of be considered possible.
Did you at all RTFA? Wait, this is/. so of course you didn't.
It clearly states how they came up with their theory of the final outcome of MPL. Since you will probably never read the article, here you go...
The craft seperated into three pieces on entry: heat shield, parachute and MPL. The shield and MPL will be no larger than a single pixel in the images, and the parachute will only be a few pixels if fully spread out.
The heat shield just falls off and crash lands... they *think* they see some ground scarring (dark line on ground) just before a single, lighter pixel. This would indicate something landed pretty hard, such as how the heat should would land.
The parachute also detaches with a backshell, and they *think* they see another area that is lighter than the others in a good candidate landing site.
MPL will be less than the size of a pixel in the best photos they have, but the solar arrays will each be about one pixel. Somewhere near those two sites is a third site that appears to have two light pixels near each other, which might indicate the solar panels deployed.
This is basically how they came up with their theory. There are also a ton of image enhancement algorithms they could've used, plus they have access to all the senser and telemetry data (of which there wasn't NEARLY enough). Oh, and btw, since you are so much in the conspiracy theory mindset, there's another thing you didn't catch from the article: NASA doesn't believe this theory is correct. They are saying that NIMA is just seeing camera noise. And, yes, I've seen the photos of the surface they are talking about... there was a/. story about it years ago.
Do you know how little time it actually takes a voice cast member to do a show? Watch the Inside the Actor's Studio with the Simpsons cast... they say they only go in for a few hours a week and never actually work "together." They all have multiple other projects going, and the Simpsons is pretty much a side project (that pays really well).
Adding the very small time commitment to the fact that there are only about three people who do voices on the show (one of whom is the show's creator, and he does three of the main characters), I don't think it will be very hard to get the show up and running.
As the article clearly stated, not every show with a cult following can be brought back, and for good reason.
The cast of Family Guy is all created, so it can just "be drawn back into existence." The cast of Firefly has gone on to other projects (or at least have tried to). There's a chance not all of them will want to return, a chance some of them can't return due to other commitments, a chance their physical appearance has changed too much, etc.
The show is recent enough, though, that an attempt to return isn't TOO out of the question; but I wouldn't hold my breath. I liked that show a lot, and I'm not much into scifi.
Theoretically you only need a physical line to a dslam, but that's not how it works in the real world. I have friends that work in the DSL industry and have tried so many different ways of getting rid of my land line, but they always tell me I need to have an account with the phone company. They need that computerized record of where I'm connected (since they move my physical connection to different hardware on occasion) in order to provision my DSL line.
In the early days of DSL you could fool the ILECs into dropping your land line while still keeping DSL, but that is no longer possible with either ILECs or CLECs (at least, it isn't in any city with any company I've tried).
The problem with parachutes on Mars is not so much the wind as the air pressure (or lack thereof). Parachutes in the thin atmosphere have to be very big to slow things down. You also can't pop out a large chute when you are burning in at 20,000 mph. There is a ton of design, testing and re-testing to run up the mission cost. Materials are also more expensive for them. Single point failures also have a larger potential for disaster with a chute system. Recall the air force guy that did the skydive from 100,000 ft... he needed something like 4 parachutes to safely land: pilot chute (slows you down to a safe speed to open main chute), main chute, reserve chute (I read once that the main failed) with a pilot chute for it. In my senior design class we had to land a nuclear generator on Mars (something you wouldn't want to bounce around too much), and chutes were the only way to go. The only way we were able to land it was using ring chutes (very interesting opening mechanism) for the first section of the descent, then a normal chute for the second portion. Airbag systems seem to me to be MUCH simpler (therefore cheaper mission cost) and safer.
The flip side to all of this is that airbags have only limited use. Precise landing area requirements, manned vehicles, "this side up ^" payloads, etc. all are better with chutes and/or retro rockets.
What in the world are you talking about? Nowhere does this say it supports GPS in any way. I read the article, the post, and searched on Google. If you are thinking GPRS, that is 100% a completely different thing. GPRS info
Info about the A760, which says no GPS at all (not even the unusable e911 gps locator used in some phones for emergency use only).
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I'm not sure about lucky... A long time ago I noticed that the spin had an effect on the outcome, too. I think the researchers noted the spin in this report, but I didn't RTFA. With a U.S. quarter, if you flip it and it spins faster, heads is the most likely outcome. Tails is more likely with a slower spin. I use this and have shown my friends 7 out of 10 accuracy. Combining the two still doesn't give much better results than 7 out of 10 (I just sat here and flipped 30 times with coin hitting the ground, no catching).
Well, I'm not sure how true that is today...
Milliard USED to be the Euro term for the U.S. billion, but most nations have switched to the U.S. term for 1,000,000,000. Milliard and the old Euro def of billion are archaic usages, and billion is generally used in the U.S. sense. Check Wikipedia for Milliard and also Wiki for Billion. A google-fight between billion and milliard results in 12,800,000 hits for billion and 235,000 for milliard. Billion wins.
Of course, I'm American, so I don't know how often the general public in Europe uses those terms and with what meanings; but officially in the government the terms have changed.
Microevolution is defined as a gradual change in genetic frequency. Since the colour of the moth is a gene controlled thing, the change in frequency of colours in the moth shows microevolution. Microevolution is a type of evolution, so evolution does occur.
He stated that there were two types of evolution within biological terms... one proven (micro) and one unproven (macro). Evolution is a generic term.
Why don't you pay attention... Microevolution (a type of evolution) is DEFINED as a change in gene-frequency over time. Therefore, a "variation in distribution of existing genetic material" DOES show evolution... just not Macroevolution. He specifically stated the two different types in his email (just didn't use the terms). His post stated, I thought, rather explicitly that we haven't seen macro, only micro, and that he didn't think we'd ever prove macro.
People get so damned worked up over the term evolution that they don't pay attention to the fact that it is a pretty generic term. It can mean something as simple as gradual development.
The only way he "helped" was by letting me borrow his soldering iron. And the remote setup he used was on my 14-1994... I had that setup to have the exact layout of the original remote mimicked, so buttons were "mislabeled" but they were where I remembered them being on the original remote. The new 15-2116 has most of my codes in it natively, so it is setup with correctly labeled buttons. I had to relearn some positions, but now all my dorky friends can look at it and know what they do.
There is something I find beautiful about only having a single remote on your coffee table that controls everything, instead of 4 or 5 remotes strewn everywhere.
The JP1 interface hack is pretty much a full fledged support option now. So many contributors and websites that you can just buy the cable with the software (Windows programmer and Excel based script builder that doesn't work in OO.org Calc program, but you might be able to rewrite the spreadsheet scripts to work with Calc and there might be a linux programmer). And almost every device is either natively supported or some dork with an offbrand device has made his own spreadsheet that you can download and use.
Essentially, you just buy a bare parallel port connector (has the box and pins), 2 resistors and a spare IDE cable. Solder some of the wires in the IDE cable to some of the pins and the resistor, put in parallel port connector and you're cable is done. There is a 6pin connector inside the battery box of the remote, which the sawed off IDE cable connects to. You use the Excel spreadsheet to setup a code set, then copy that into the programmer software. The programmer can save and archive old remote setups (so you don't have to remember what codes did what device and can revert if you screw up) and is pretty easy to use.
The newer 15-2116 actually does almost everything I need natively without the JP1 hack... the only thing I had to do was multiple volume passthrough. The geniuses who make the remote decided that instead of being able to assign the volume button for one device to another, you can now (changed from the 14-1994 version) only have ALL volume buttons control one volume, or ALL control their own. I want ReplayTV and TV to control TV volume, but RCVR and DVD to control RCVR volume.
Oh, and I know what you mean about the Play button... I got into the habit of sliding my finger down till I felt the last row of buttons, then went up one row to find Play.
I have used the TiVo remote, and it is pretty good... I prefer the remote I have, though.
It is the Radio Shack universal 15-2116 (previously 14-1994, which I also still own). I hacked together a little parallel cable to connect it to my computer and program every single button exactly how I want (called the JP1 hack). You can map any button any way you want, clear out the memory of unused buttons, etc. I have that thing programmed for 6 different things (from the replayTV to the original Apex hacked dvd player to an offbrand tv/vcr combo) and have the buttons so intuitively mapped that I don't ever need to look at it. It also has this weird textured plastic that feels like hardened suede. IR learning and everything else, all for $30.
This govt is in the states of Kerala and, IIRC, West Bengal. I did some travelling in Kerala and ended up stuck in the middle of a huge communist rally. It was really eery, being from the US and growing up in the cold war era, to be surrounded by red flags and banners like that.
One interesting fact is that Kerala is among the most literate (98% literacy rate, officially) in the world. My friends told me that communism is especially alluring to those of the intellectual persuasion in India. Also, Kerala is a southern state, and very few tourists visit there (Delhi and Bombay are considered northern states). With the exception of Kovalam Beach, I was the only "white" person I saw there.
Why did you buy the game in the first place if you KNEW that you would not be able to play multi-player at the time of purchase? Where you unable to wait for the patch to come out? You stated in the blurb that the only reason you want the game is for MP and aren't at all interested in the single player mode. You knew before you bought it that, at the time of purchase, you would have no interest in even using it. If I'm buying a car for driving on the road but the tires aren't available for it yet, I'm not going to buy it now versus when the tires are ready. Stupid analogy? You bet. Is it also stupid to buy a game before you can even play it? I think so. It's like buying Sims Online when you don't have internet access... or buying any computer game when you don't own a computer. It makes a hell of a lot more sense to keep the money in the bank and wait until you can actually play the game.
Did the game company illegally market this game and therefore this is a viable lawsuit? I have no idea. Are there too many lawsuits in the U.S. because people don't want to take any responsibility for their own stupid/impatient actions? I have an inkling there are.
As I've proposed in a couple other /. posts, I don't know if them selling our viewing habits is a good thing or not. Think about it, they know we are using TiVo to watch our shows... that means they also know we timeshift and have the ability to skip commercials. With the keylogging, they KNOW when we skip commercials.
Shows make money by selling commercials. The price is dependent on ratings. If an ad company knows a certain percentage of that rating is using a TiVo and is skipping commercials, the price would go down for a spot. Once ad companies know a show is highly watched on TiVo and the commercials highly skipped, why would they pay to support that show?
This either leads to advertisers pulling out (cancelling the show) or them selling alternate forms of ads, like those little bits that are on the lower corner of the screen. Fox has that big sweaty boyfriend bouncing up and down in the corner with the face of a scared mom next to him.
Now, maybe you'd prefer that along with a full 30 minutes of content (I'm undecided at the moment), but I'm just pointing out that this may or may not lead to a show getting more funding.
Are you really sure you want advertisers knowing you watch a certain show? Shows make their money by selling commercials, but if the advertisers know you are skipping them with the TiVo, why would they pay? I think it would be cool if TiVo (or ReplayTV for me) would tell people I'm watching their shows, but I think people knowing that I'm intentionally skipping their commercials will lead to FASTER cancellization of my shows.
So, if you are skipping the commercials, TiVo knows it and could sell this aggregate info to advertisers. The result could either be fewer companies wanting to pay for nobody to watch their ads OR more companies putting ads INSIDE the show... i.e. those little ads Fox has running in the lower corner of the Simpsons with a Bachelorette running away from pursuing men.
Exactly, whether or not it makes sense to actually implement, I'd love to see how this could be accomplished... Haven't any of you done something ridiculously overcomplicated just for fun? Rube Goldberg? Not only that, but if this kid is in highschool, maybe he actually wants to learn something (as opposed to just learn how to do busy work).
I am definitely not a network engineer or a wireless expert, but possibly a very simple solution might be a Roger Wilco server with some bluetooth headsets. VoIP is probably a pain in the ass and might require custom software. RW clients can be run on simple computers. Donated pentiums in key locations connected to the 802.11g network to the RW server, with bluetooth headsets to connect to those nodes.
Exactly what I was thinking... this article is absolutely useless. She reviewed a total of four things, and has six pages setup that are accessed by any of 30 different link trees. The reviews aren't detailed, either. This is a worthless review (and I didn't even find the exotic one-handed one that was in the /. blurb). Did the editor RTFA? I read threw almost all of it, and the most I gained was learning about a single new product. The rest of it is essentially a copy of a marketing promo.
Ummm... are you kidding me? We can't test a landing by a computer program using retros?
I, as an aerospace engineer that runs simulations of rocket launches for a living, can definitely refute that statement. First off, simulations of this type are extremely easy. Secondly, testing them in the real world is pretty easy as well... back before the CRV (x-38) was cancelled, they did live drop tests of the thing. It had a huge parafoil chute system that was completely computer controlled and guided (not just a passive parachute, but a guided and steerable system). Also, there is that one rocket being tested for the X-prize that uses retros to land (I forget the name of it), and it has completed many tests. Finally, as another reply to your post pointed out, many of the probes/landers on Mars and Venus used retros and chutes to land. Pathfinder was the first to use the bounce technique; before that, chutes and retros were all we had.
Now, I will grant you that our track record with retros aren't great lately, but a lot of those failures were due to not having full telemetry during that stage of landing. If we had some telemetry from the landers that crashed and burned, we might have been able to make adjustments in our schemes and prevented future ones. The newest rover finally did have that full telemetry during landing.
You must've not seen the hi-res image, or forgot that mozilla and IE both scale down the image to fit your browser window. NASA said this is the highest resolution image EVER taken of another planet. That includes Pathfinder, Sojourner, et. al. I was astounded at the detail in this photo... You can see individual grains of sand! The full-res TIFF is 40.4MB, and the JPEG sizes up at around 1.5MB. A 40MB file over an 11kbps connection takes a bit of time to download. This is, obviously, a mosaic of 4 photos IIRC, so more like 10MB per photo; but they still had to send 40MB over a slow data link.
RTFA, it states clearly that the info display devices for law enforcement and emergency assist vehicles are legal and allowed.
Actually, it can be true.
The article just says it orbits between Jupiter and Earth, but doesn't mention its geometry. The orbit could be highly elliptical, with its perihelion being lower than Earth's and apohelion being higher than Earths's. At some point in its orbit, it would be "orbiting" between Earth and Jupiter.. at another point it would be crossing orbital paths with Earth on its way to perihelion.
Yes, it is terrible use of terminology (indicative of the rest of the article), but it could kind of be considered possible.
Did you at all RTFA? Wait, this is /. so of course you didn't.
/. story about it years ago.
It clearly states how they came up with their theory of the final outcome of MPL. Since you will probably never read the article, here you go...
The craft seperated into three pieces on entry: heat shield, parachute and MPL. The shield and MPL will be no larger than a single pixel in the images, and the parachute will only be a few pixels if fully spread out.
The heat shield just falls off and crash lands... they *think* they see some ground scarring (dark line on ground) just before a single, lighter pixel. This would indicate something landed pretty hard, such as how the heat should would land.
The parachute also detaches with a backshell, and they *think* they see another area that is lighter than the others in a good candidate landing site.
MPL will be less than the size of a pixel in the best photos they have, but the solar arrays will each be about one pixel. Somewhere near those two sites is a third site that appears to have two light pixels near each other, which might indicate the solar panels deployed.
This is basically how they came up with their theory. There are also a ton of image enhancement algorithms they could've used, plus they have access to all the senser and telemetry data (of which there wasn't NEARLY enough). Oh, and btw, since you are so much in the conspiracy theory mindset, there's another thing you didn't catch from the article: NASA doesn't believe this theory is correct. They are saying that NIMA is just seeing camera noise. And, yes, I've seen the photos of the surface they are talking about... there was a
"Oh, and we could have a new acronym: IANALBIPOO (..But I Play One Online)"
.sig for a long time here and would consider any use of IANALBIPOO an infringement of my IP rights.
I'm sorry, but I've been using a similar
Do you know how little time it actually takes a voice cast member to do a show? Watch the Inside the Actor's Studio with the Simpsons cast... they say they only go in for a few hours a week and never actually work "together." They all have multiple other projects going, and the Simpsons is pretty much a side project (that pays really well).
Adding the very small time commitment to the fact that there are only about three people who do voices on the show (one of whom is the show's creator, and he does three of the main characters), I don't think it will be very hard to get the show up and running.
So fuck you, you fucking fuck.
As the article clearly stated, not every show with a cult following can be brought back, and for good reason.
The cast of Family Guy is all created, so it can just "be drawn back into existence." The cast of Firefly has gone on to other projects (or at least have tried to). There's a chance not all of them will want to return, a chance some of them can't return due to other commitments, a chance their physical appearance has changed too much, etc.
The show is recent enough, though, that an attempt to return isn't TOO out of the question; but I wouldn't hold my breath. I liked that show a lot, and I'm not much into scifi.
Caustic Soda is already a punk band name:
Caustic Soda
Luckily, the other names are up for grabs (according to Google).
Theoretically you only need a physical line to a dslam, but that's not how it works in the real world. I have friends that work in the DSL industry and have tried so many different ways of getting rid of my land line, but they always tell me I need to have an account with the phone company. They need that computerized record of where I'm connected (since they move my physical connection to different hardware on occasion) in order to provision my DSL line.
In the early days of DSL you could fool the ILECs into dropping your land line while still keeping DSL, but that is no longer possible with either ILECs or CLECs (at least, it isn't in any city with any company I've tried).
The problem with parachutes on Mars is not so much the wind as the air pressure (or lack thereof). Parachutes in the thin atmosphere have to be very big to slow things down. You also can't pop out a large chute when you are burning in at 20,000 mph. There is a ton of design, testing and re-testing to run up the mission cost. Materials are also more expensive for them. Single point failures also have a larger potential for disaster with a chute system. Recall the air force guy that did the skydive from 100,000 ft... he needed something like 4 parachutes to safely land: pilot chute (slows you down to a safe speed to open main chute), main chute, reserve chute (I read once that the main failed) with a pilot chute for it. In my senior design class we had to land a nuclear generator on Mars (something you wouldn't want to bounce around too much), and chutes were the only way to go. The only way we were able to land it was using ring chutes (very interesting opening mechanism) for the first section of the descent, then a normal chute for the second portion. Airbag systems seem to me to be MUCH simpler (therefore cheaper mission cost) and safer.
The flip side to all of this is that airbags have only limited use. Precise landing area requirements, manned vehicles, "this side up ^" payloads, etc. all are better with chutes and/or retro rockets.
What in the world are you talking about? Nowhere does this say it supports GPS in any way. I read the article, the post, and searched on Google. If you are thinking GPRS, that is 100% a completely different thing.
GPRS info
Info about the A760, which says no GPS at all (not even the unusable e911 gps locator used in some phones for emergency use only).