Yea but can you imaging trying to do anything with multiple minutes of lag!? For many of us thats probably as close to hell as you can get without dying.
Space-ship one is a suborbital vehicle meaning it goes straight up, and falls straight back down. Attaining orbit involves getting that high up, and simultaneously accellerating to some 20,000mph+, a feat which requires a hell of a lot more fuel than SS1 has available.
An orbit is when you get going fast enough that you fall around the planet, instead of into it.
There is also the problem of decelleration. The space shuttle has no retro rockets or anything. It uses it's rear-facing orbital maneuvering engines to slow down, and has to turn itself around to do so. Nothing SS1 couldn't do. However, the energy required to slow an orbiting spacecraft down using only rockets is immense. Because of this orbiting spacecraft use the atmosphere to slow down, which at 20,000mph generates temperatures which require special thermal protection.
SS1 cannot ever achieve orbit. It's roughly the private equivalent of the X-15 project, the beginning of private manned spaceflight.
All of that said, SS1 cost some $20 million dollars, pocket change to nasa or any military project. I wonder how much the same project would cost if NASA did it. Nowadays NASA is bogged down by bureaucracy, and controlled by PR more than anything. NASA should be dissolved and it's budget used in the form of grants to private space projects.
it's not worth spending more than $200 or so on a video card. A $200 video card will run well anything that $500 video card will. Both will need to be replaced within a few of months of each other. Buying the $200 video card instead of the $500 card means you get to upgrade sooner. Spending much more than $200 is nothing more than a waste of money.
Both have a squad of armed police on board from the UK Atomic Energy Agency Constabulary. The ships carry naval cannons, have satellite monitoring, twin engines and hull protection.
These are _armed_ ships, with armed security. An attack on them would require a warship. So north korea or iran or some other nation is going to attack and try and seize this ship? A couple terrorists with guns and a speedboat isn't going to cut it.
I fail to see how this is any more dangerous than the transportation of any hazardous chemicals, or gold bullion, except it seems to be rather more secure.
Consumer grade broadband routers are notorious for causing problems, and are almost always badly underpowered. Using a PC based router to handle nat generally works much better, provided you have the know-how to set it up.
In politics there are no facts. It's all doublespeak and haziness.
Politics is about looking at the candidates, figuring out what makes each candidate a scumbag, and then deciding which scumbag is more likely to not screw things up.
IE does not support the alpha channel in PNG's. IE _DOES_ support indexed transparency.
So all of the features of gif(minus animation) are available with PNG's under IE. Many of the more advanced features of png remain unsupported under IE, but using that as an excuse to cling to the gif is silly.
In accusing IBM of copyright infringment, while being extremly sketchy on what was being infringed, SCO is now accused of infringing on IBM's copyrights. The only difference is IBM can pinpoint the code they own.
Who the hell at SCO _ever_ thought this would be anything but a disaster?
This kind of stuff is all over the place. Odds are most of these are automated worms and similar crap. Unless it's really a concerted attack on your machines, as opposed to random scanning, it's not worth the effort to do anything about it except maybe firewall the IP.
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Just make sure you pay the licensing fees for thier patents whenever you have sex. (Not an issue for most here though)
a coffin?
What about the effects of clusters of identical stories? This needs to be studied!
Yea but can you imaging trying to do anything with multiple minutes of lag!? For many of us thats probably as close to hell as you can get without dying.
From what I know, both are correct.
Personally I despise the "Sequel" pronounciation. It goes right with tickle, fffp, erc,roffle, etc
If there isn't a fucking vowel, don't try to add one.
Seriously. They offered me a refund saying they couldn't help me.
You are quite wrong.
Space-ship one is a suborbital vehicle meaning it goes straight up, and falls straight back down. Attaining orbit involves getting that high up, and simultaneously accellerating to some 20,000mph+, a feat which requires a hell of a lot more fuel than SS1 has available.
An orbit is when you get going fast enough that you fall around the planet, instead of into it.
There is also the problem of decelleration. The space shuttle has no retro rockets or anything. It uses it's rear-facing orbital maneuvering engines to slow down, and has to turn itself around to do so. Nothing SS1 couldn't do. However, the energy required to slow an orbiting spacecraft down using only rockets is immense. Because of this orbiting spacecraft use the atmosphere to slow down, which at 20,000mph generates temperatures which require special thermal protection.
SS1 cannot ever achieve orbit. It's roughly the private equivalent of the X-15 project, the beginning of private manned spaceflight.
All of that said, SS1 cost some $20 million dollars, pocket change to nasa or any military project. I wonder how much the same project would cost if NASA did it. Nowadays NASA is bogged down by bureaucracy, and controlled by PR more than anything. NASA should be dissolved and it's budget used in the form of grants to private space projects.
it's not worth spending more than $200 or so on a video card. A $200 video card will run well anything that $500 video card will. Both will need to be replaced within a few of months of each other. Buying the $200 video card instead of the $500 card means you get to upgrade sooner. Spending much more than $200 is nothing more than a waste of money.
Both have a squad of armed police on board from the UK Atomic Energy Agency Constabulary.
The ships carry naval cannons, have satellite monitoring, twin engines and hull protection.
These are _armed_ ships, with armed security. An attack on them would require a warship. So north korea or iran or some other nation is going to attack and try and seize this ship? A couple terrorists with guns and a speedboat isn't going to cut it.
I fail to see how this is any more dangerous than the transportation of any hazardous chemicals, or gold bullion, except it seems to be rather more secure.
Hooray for sensationalist alarmist stories!
Actually thats not broken, the instructions actually explain how to realign the head.
Heinlein's idea is to handle light waves in the same way as radio waves. Having an antenna able to do so seems like the first step to me.
Consumer grade broadband routers are notorious for causing problems, and are almost always badly underpowered. Using a PC based router to handle nat generally works much better, provided you have the know-how to set it up.
Heinlein was here?
Grab freebsd 4.10. 5.x still has some odd quirks.
In politics there are no facts. It's all doublespeak and haziness.
Politics is about looking at the candidates, figuring out what makes each candidate a scumbag, and then deciding which scumbag is more likely to not screw things up.
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1028302004 e ws/2004/09/02/walien02.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/02 /ixworld.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/n
It's not slashdotting, it's been taken down by a secret govt agency who dropped the ball and allowed the news to get out.
This is a half-truth.
IE does not support the alpha channel in PNG's.
IE _DOES_ support indexed transparency.
So all of the features of gif(minus animation) are available with PNG's under IE. Many of the more advanced features of png remain unsupported under IE, but using that as an excuse to cling to the gif is silly.
It's not p2p.
It's 'distributed'.
Peer to peer implies that the users of the service are the ones supporting it's existance.
not even a kernel patch, a loadable module included in the base.
FreeBSD's dummynet can quite easily do it. I suspect the same of openbsd and linux.
What kind of question is this for ask slashdot?
In accusing IBM of copyright infringment, while being extremly sketchy on what was being infringed, SCO is now accused of infringing on IBM's copyrights. The only difference is IBM can pinpoint the code they own.
Who the hell at SCO _ever_ thought this would be anything but a disaster?
While the cooling of the city of Toronto might have no noticable effect on the lake, your prescott will likely cause the lake to mostly boil off.
This kind of stuff is all over the place. Odds are most of these are automated worms and similar crap. Unless it's really a concerted attack on your machines, as opposed to random scanning, it's not worth the effort to do anything about it except maybe firewall the IP.
Now I'd like to see them swing a 200$ Thrustmaster HOTAS Stick on its cord...
You could kill someone doing that.